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Kieran Harney, a product line manager in the Micromachined Products Division of Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), is focused on the development of new MEMS technologies. He joined ADI 22 years ago as a semiconductor packaging engineer in Limerick, Ireland; served as assembly and test manager in the Philippines from 1994 to 1997; and assumed
responsibility for assembly, test, and advanced package devel- opment in Cambridge, MA, in 1997. Kieran received a man- ufacturing engineering degree in 1983 and an MBA in 1993, both from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
Gary W. Elko was born in
Philadelphia, PA in 1955. He
graduated from Cornell
University with a BSEE degree in
1977. He then followed his inter-
ests in acoustics and signal pro-
cessing and received M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from Penn State
University in 1984. After gradua-
tion, he joined the Acoustics
Research Department at AT&T
Bell Laboratories where he worked on electroacoustic sys- tems and signal processing for hands-free audio communica- tion and room acoustics. He is president of mh acoustic LLC, a company he founded in 2001 along with former Bell Labs colleagues in Summit, NJ. He has over 25 patents and patent applications and has published more than 60 papers. He is a past associate editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing and is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the IEEE.
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