Saied Tehrani

Saied Tehrani (S'82–M'85–SM'92) received the B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He joined Motorola in 1985 and was involved in the device and process research and development of heterojunction devices for high efficiency and low power applications and its transfer into production for wireless applications. He started working on the magnetic random access memory (MRAM) in 1995. He is currently director of MRAM technology at the Freescale Semiconductor Embedded Memory Center.