Roy Meade co-founded Volantis, where he develops photonic systems for AI inference. He previously led manufacturing at Ayar Labs and Micron’s high-bandwidth memory program, and worked on integrating silicon photonics with bulk CMOS.
Roy Meade co-founded Volantis, where he develops photonic systems for AI inference. He previously led manufacturing at Ayar Labs and Micron’s high-bandwidth memory program, and worked on integrating silicon photonics with bulk CMOS.
Career
Co-founder and CTO at Volantis from 2025-06 to PresentDevelops photonic interconnects and memory systems for AI inference.VLManaging Member at Vespilux LLC from 2021-11 to PresentConsulting on semiconductor and photonic fabrication, testing and assembly.
TIExecutive Director of Strategic Partnerships at Texas Institute for Electronics from 2023-09 to 2025-06Established partnerships and oversaw heterogeneous integration, assembly design kits, testing and reliability initiatives.
VP of Manufacturing at Ayar Labs from 2016-04 to 2021-06Led silicon-photonics packaging, fabrication, electro-optic testing, quality and reliability.
Senior Member of Technical Staff / Senior Program Manager at Micron Technology from 2014-01 to 2016-04Managed the high-bandwidth memory program, including customer engagement, product features and international engineering teams.YNManager, Process and Prototyping at Yafo Networks from 1999-10 to 2002-10Managed engineering and technician teams developing optical-electronic components and manufacturing processes.
LLProduct Engineer II at LSI Logic from 1998-12 to 1999-11Managed mixed-signal ASIC products, electrical testing and wafer-fabrication process investigations.
MDevice Engineer at Motorola from 1996 to 1997Introduced a CMOS-integrated MEMS pressure sensor and managed semiconductor fabrication processes.