Kirk D. Prall (M'82) was born in 1958. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1990.,He worked for Philips Semiconductors from 1982 to 1991, in the areas of EPROM, ROM, microprocessors. He joined Micron, Inc., Boise, ID, in 1991 and has been doing research and development in DRAM and flash memories. He is currently assigned as Director of Flash Process Development. He has published several papers and holds 90 patents.