Sohrab Kianian

Biography

Sohrab Kianian is the Vice President, Licensing and Business Development at Nantero.He was previously the Vice President, Technology Licensing and Business Development for Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (SST), where he was one of the first employees. He was responsible for starting and leading SST’s licensing business. SST became a leading licensor of embedded nonvolatile memory. He was also in charge of litigation and enforcement of licensing agreements. From 1991-1997, he was Senior Manager, Device Physics at SST. From 1989-1990, he was a Senior Device Engineer at Altera, and before that he was a Senior Device Engineer at Xicor Corporation, working on EEPROM. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA, and has eighteen issued US patents in the field of nonvolatile memory.  

Research Interest

Silicon Storage Technology, Electrical Engineering, Senior Device Engineering, and Business Development.