Frank Hady is an Intel Fellow in the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group where he focuses on memory and storage hierarchy advances. Frank led the system technical direction for Intel® Optane™ technology from inception to its current prominent market position. In his 26 years at Intel Frank has managed the SSD business’ 70-person research and architecture team, lead architecture definition of the very first Optane products and of Intel’s first NVMe SSD, served as Intel’s lead platform I/O architect, delivered research foundational to Intel’s heterogenous compute platforms, and driven significant platform interconnect advances. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 published papers, holds more than 30 U.S. patents, and presents often on memory and storage. Frank earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.