Lawrence Muray Dr. Muray received his B.S. at Caltech and Ph.D at Cornell in Applied Physics at a time when ¼ micron gate length was considered advanced technology. After a brief post-doc at IBM Research, he went on to work in R&D at various times at Lawrence Berkeley Labs (government), Etec Systems (industry), Glimmerglass Networks (startup), Agilent Technologies (industry) and most recently KLA (industry), where he is Senior Director of Advanced Technology. Dr Muray’s areas of expertise include electron optics, nanolithography, nanofabrication, and MEMS devices. Most enjoyably however, he was co-founder and CEO of Novelx, a tiny startup company in electron beam lithography which was supported by DARPA grants, angel investors and industry ; and after 8 years of independence was acquired on Christmas Eve 2010 by Agilent Technologies. Most recently, in addition to his day job, Dr. Muray serves as CEO of Inphora, Inc., another tiny startup founded by his mother in 1989. He has published 45+ papers, holds 20+ patents and has received 4 industrial awards.