Alok Mishra is Director DRAM design at Micron Technology, Hyderabad where he is working for last five years. He is currently leading the HBM design development program with foundry partners. Earlier he successfully led verification of many leading-edge DRAM designs at Micron where he pioneered in bringing many innovations is the way DRAMs are designed and verified, to bring improvement in functionality, coverage and cycle time. Prior to joining Micron, Alok was associated with STMicroelectronics for 22 years in wide variety of roles including memory compiler development, design data management and finally as Mixed-Signal design Verification leader of Automotive Inertial sensor product where he focused on ISO26262 standard functional safety evaluation. His expertise includes Verilog, System Verilog, UVM, silicon qualification and memory IP design. He has a B.Tech.(EE) from IIT, Roorkee in 1996.