Bio:

Barbara De Salvo is Director of Research at Meta Reality Labs Research, responsible for new AI sensing technologies, novel low-power systems and ML architectures for Smart glasses and future Augmented Reality glasses. Before joining Meta in 2019, she was Chief Scientist and Deputy Director of CEA-LETI, driving the path-finding strategy. In 2013-2015, she was visiting scholar in IBM-Albany-NY in the frame of the sub-10nm CMOS International Technology Alliance, where several of her research works have led to product technologies for novel logic ICs (as Silicon-On-Insulator, Finfet and stacked nanowire technology platforms). In CEA-LETI, she founded and led the advanced memory technology division (2008-2013), where she promoted the introduction of disruptive memory technologies, such as phase-change memories, resistive oxide-based and conductive-bridge memories. She pioneered neuromorphic hardware solutions based on emerging technologies for ultra-low-power cognitive systems. She has authored more than 400 referred articles, ten book chapters, a monography on Silicon Non-Volatile Memories edited by Wiley and Sons and several patents. She served as General Chair of IEEE IEDM 2022, as well as chair of the IEEE Corporation Award Committee from 2022 to 2024, in the Fellow Evaluation Committee, IEEE nanotechnology in 2024-25. She is a fellow of IEEE.