John Heck is a staff scientist at Intel Corporation, where he is responsible for developing Intel’s silicon photonic laser process and bringing it to manufacturing. He previously led MEMS processing and packaging development for RF switches, FBAR filters, and MEMS memory devices, a project for which he was an industrial affiliate at IMEC (Belgium). Dr. Heck received his PhD in applied physics from UC Berkeley in 2001, where he co-developed the SiGe MEMS process for integration with standard CMOS, a technology which recently became commercialized for timing devices. He holds more than 30 patents and has over 30 publications.