BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Bala Haran is the Corporate Vice President of the Integrated Materials Solutions Division at Applied Materials. In his role Bala leads a team of device integrators and process engineers focused on identifying and enabling new inflections in Logic and Memory technology. His current focus is on integrating Applied processes and tools to provide leading-edge performance elements for Nanosheet-based CMOS Logic and next-generation DRAM and 3D NAND devices. Prior to joining Applied Materials, Bala was at IBM for 18 years where he led multi-company process and device integration teams focused on CMOS technology development and transfer. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina and has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications and 100 patents granted.