Yiming Huai

Yiming Huai serves as CTO, and the VP of Technology & Foundry Business. Huai is a highly accomplished technologist and entrepreneur in magnetic and semiconductor technologies. He was a co-founder, board member, CTO and VP of Engineering of Grandis, Inc, a pioneer in Spin Transfer Torque MRAM (STT-MRAM). While at Grandis, Huai successfully raised more than $30M in private and government funding. He also established the Grandis experienced engineering team and extensive patent portfolio. He played critical role for Grandis in establishing strategic partnerships with Renesas and Hynix. Grandis was acquired by Samsung in 2011. Prior to Grandis, Huai served as Sr. Director of Thin Film of Manufacturing at Read-Rite Corporation (now Western Digital) from 1996 to 2002, where he led the development and volume production of industry-leading GMR heads for hard disk drives. He previously worked as a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Physics, from the University of Montreal in Canada. He has published over 120 papers in scientific journals, holds more than 180 issued patents. He has given over 90 keynote and invited talks on STT-MRAM technology, and has served as Conference Chairman and Organizer for major international magnetic conferences and workshops. In 1996, he received the prestigious R&D 100 Award with his peers for his outstanding work on Ultra-High Density Magnetic Sensors.