News: Optoelectronics
28 April 2026
Aeluma appoints Willy Rachmady as VP of strategic partnerships and ecosystem
Aeluma Inc of Goleta, CA, USA has appointed Willy Rachmady Ph.D. as its VP of strategic partnerships and ecosystem, reporting directly to president & CEO Jonathan Klamkin Ph.D. He will lead foundry and ecosystem partnerships, customer engineering, and the firm’s technology commercialization strategy spanning silicon photonics and compound semiconductor platforms.
Aeluma specializes in high-performance photonic and electronic technologies on a proprietary platform that combines compound semiconductors with scalable manufacturing used for mass-market microelectronics to enable volume production and large-scale integration. Applications include mobile, AI, defense & aerospace, robotics, automotive, AR/VR, and quantum. R&D and manufacturing capabilities for semiconductor wafer production, quick-turn chip fabrication, rapid prototyping, test and validation. Aeluma also partners with production-scale fabrication foundries, packaging, and integration companies.
Following a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, Rachmady has more than 20 years of technical and strategic leadership in advanced semiconductor technologies. Most recently, he was a senior technical leader at Intel Corp, driving corporate-wide initiatives that shaped its technology and product roadmaps, strategic investments, and ecosystem partnerships, and making foundational contributions across advanced CMOS process development, 3D wafer stacking, heterogeneous integration, and compound semiconductor device technologies including III-V and germanium platforms. He is a named inventor on more than 350 US patents and is a three-time recipient of Intel’s Top Inventor Award.
At Aeluma, Rachmady will focus on building and scaling strategic partnerships across the manufacturing ecosystem, including front-end and back-end fabrication, wafer-scale integration, and packaging, while driving commercial opportunities for Aeluma’s III-V-based image sensor, high-speed photodiode, and quantum dot laser products. He will also lead the expansion of the firm’s intellectual property portfolio and support its technology roadmap across near- and long-term commercial horizons, including silicon photonics, co-packaged optics, and CMOS integration.
“His rare combination of deep process technology expertise, broad ecosystem relationships, and strategic perspective is exactly what we need at this stage of the company’s growth,” says Klamkin. “With commercial interest building across our target markets, Willy’s appointment strengthens our ability to execute on our commercial roadmap and accelerate our path to volume manufacturing,” he adds.
“Aeluma has built an impressive technology foundation with a product portfolio uniquely positioned at the intersection of compound semiconductors and scalable manufacturing,” comments Rachmady.
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