Keith Fife

Keith Fife received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University as a Hertz Foundation Fellow researching advanced imaging devices.

Keith co-founded SMaL Camera Technologies to develop image sensors and systems for consumer and automotive imaging. He was the Chief Designer at Ion Torrent, Life Technologies, and Thermo Fisher developing high throughput DNA sequencing chips. He was Chief Technology Officer for Butterfly Network delivering Ultrasound on a Chip technology to the market using MEMS-based transducer arrays integrated with CMOS. He served as Chief Technology Officer for Quantum Si developing the chips and manufacturing processes for protein sequencing. He has served as a technical advisor to Cypress Semiconductor, 4Catalyzer, and Hyperfine and is a Founding Advisor for Chromatic, developing products in the high-tech healthcare space. Keith has served on various academic programs including the ISSCC technical program committee for IMMD.