Carlo Reita
Direttore, Fondazione Chips-IT

Dr. Carlo Reita is currently CEO (Direttore) of the new Fondazione “Centro italiano per il design dei circuiti integrati a semiconduttore” (Fondazione Chips-IT). Nominated in August 2024, he and the team he set-up are working to create the first Italian Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) on semiconductor in Italy and getting it in the leading EU group of such organisations.

Born in Rome (Italy) in 1960, he holds a Laurea di Dottore in Fisica from Rome University “La Sapienza”. After two years as Second Lieutenant in the Italian Air Force, he carried out research in electronic devices and circuits at at Istituto di Elettronica dello Stato Solido of the CNR (Italy), GEC-Marconi Hirst Research Centre in Wembley (UK), Laboratoire Centrale des Recherches of Thomson-CSF in Orsay (France). He spent two years at Cambridge University Engineering Department as Royal Society Industrial Fellow. He held various management positions at Photronics finally becoming European R&D Director. In 2005 he joined CEA-Leti as CMOS Advanced Devices Program Manager..Between 2016 and 2019 he has been the initiator and coordinator of the EU H2020 project NeuRAM3 aiming at using novel technologies like FDSOI, Resistive RAMs, 3D integration and TFT to fabricate bioinspired circuits for embedded artificial intelligence applications. In 2022 he coordinated the successful bid to the EU for a creation of a joint Test and Experimentation Facility for Hardware AI (PREVAIL Project). He has been Director of Strategic Partnerships and Planning in the CTO Office of CEA-Leti, (Grenoble, France), in charge of the relations with major. He acted as “Sherpa” of the LETI Director for EU documents, discussions, events preparation, and representing LETI to International Public Authorities and Private Companies as well as constructing the overall materials, devices, integration and design enablement roadmap for computing. His last position in CEA was as Director Research and Innovation Alliances in the Technology Research Division of CEA. His major scientific interests have been thin film materials for large area electronics, lithography, advanced devices for computation and neuromorphic circuits and architectures

He is author or co-author of over 80 refereed papers, several invited and review papers, two books chapters in the fields of electronic devices and lithography, participated in a number of panels (IEDM, SSDM, …). He served as member of national and international reviews and advisory committees.