Ned Saleh, PhD

Ned Saleh, PhD is inventor/engineer/entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley with over 15 years of experience in the corporate world occupying senior engineering positions at Intel, KLA, IBM, Apple, and other companies. Dr. Saleh raised over $4M in seed funding and founded Plasmotica and Synsal in the biotech and bigdata domain at early revenue stage. His earlier academic work at the University of Michigan and Berkeley Lab helped his research group win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 under his thesis advisor Prof. Gerard Mourou, along with Guinness Book citation of his academic thesis laser project in 2008. He is expanding his entrepreneurial activities in green initiatives in developing countries.