David Harame, Ph.D., is the associate vice president for EPDA, test & packaging, and process development for New York CREATES and the Chief Operating Officer for AIM Photonics. He is responsible for the organization’s photonic technologies, heterogeneous integration, electronic photonic design automation process design kits, and Test, Assembly and Packaging (TAP) operations in Albany and Rochester, N.Y. Harame is an IEEE Fellow and has held numerous other industry leadership roles throughout his career after earning his doctorate in electrical and electronics engineering at Stanford University.