Mr Konstantinos (Dean, Dino) Haritos

I just found out about Dean's passing. It brings me great sadness. Dean was a young engineer attending Stanford when he joined us at HP Labs. He asked me for advice whether he should finish his PhD, and seeing how he was all ready for the real world, I advised him to work full time at HP Labs. Dean's contributions to science and engineering in optoelectronics is well documented. He never gave up. His was a life well lived.

I just found out about Dean's passing. Dean was a young engineer attending Stanford when he joined us at HP Labs. He asked me for advice whether he should finish his PhD, and seeing how he was all ready for the real world, I advised him to work full time at HP Labs. Dean's contributions to science and engineering in optoelectronics is well documented. He never gave up. His was a life well lived.

I first met Dean when i was in Sunnyvale for a product transfer and we were both working for Finisar (2001) and he was a Engineering Manager at that time. He had a few classes and I had the opportunity to join his classes. I was so taken aback at how eloquently he could simplify something so difficult into easy to understand concepts. He was a very talented person , a little shy but he was such a role model for young engineers. A few years after, after I moved to Japan, he contacted me via LinkedIn and for a short while we kept in touch. Even during this, he was very helpful when I inquired to him on some work ideas... You are a amazing, down to earth and very talented person Dean. I am glad I had the chance to know and work with you....Even though we only worked together for a short time but you left a lasting impression on me... My deepest condolences to your wife and loved ones... ~ Catherine (Finisar, Malaysia)

My condolences to George and Mary, whom I knew for many years during and after George and I worked together in the Air Force. Dino was a remarkable person with a remarkable life.

I met Dino in 2013, a short while after I fell in love with his father. I loved Dino so much from the very first moment I met him in San Francisco ❣ I was so stressed that I was going to meet the son of my loved one and I was bringing him gifts from France ( I was living in France at the time). Unfortunately the gift was foie gras, that Dino hated. With his big smile, he explained to me how they produce foie gras. I never ate foie gras again...
I am happy to have had the chance to spend time with Dino several times after that - in San Francisco, at the Sea Ranch, in Denver and most recently in Oakland. I have visited him, together with his father, in the hospital, during those seven years I knew him. I have never met a person with such a positive and courageous attitude! I loved him as my son!

I love you Dino ❤
Your stepmom - Gina

Well done Dean, every step of the way. I'm sad but inspired by the way you pushed thru. We need ambition, and your's was the best kind.