Barbara De Salvo

Barbara De Salvo - Director of Research, Meta Reality Labs Research
Barbara De Salvo is Director of Research at Meta Reality Labs Research (USA), responsible for Silicon Strategy and Foundry Engineering. She influences topnotch semiconductor companies and academia to define the most optimized semiconductor technologies that will enable Meta’s next generation of human-machine-interface, the new Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) platforms which combine virtual and real worlds to explore the limits of human experience. She leads a multi-disciplinary team, including technologists, Asic designers, Machine Learning (ML) algorithm-, Computer Vision- scientists, and system engineers to drive the introduction of novel semiconductor technologies and new computing paradigms (as Compute-In-Memory, On-Sensor-Compute) in next generation AR/VR product systems. Before joining Meta in 2019, she was Chief Scientist and Deputy Director of CEA-LETI (France), driving the path-finding strategy. 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 and neuromorphic hardware solutions based on emerging technologies. In 2013-2015, she was manager and visiting scholar in IBM-Albany-NY (USA) 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).

She has authored more than 350 referred articles, ten book chapters, a monography on Silicon Non-Volatile Memories edited by Wiley and Sons. She served as General Chair of  IEEE IEDM 2022, as well as chair of the IEEE Corporation Award Committee (2021, 2022).  She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and an active member of the IEEE Women in Engineering network.