Summary
Alessandro Aimar is a founder CTO and research-trained engineer with nine years of experience building energy-efficient edge-AI hardware and accelerator architectures. He leads Synthara’s development of ComputeRAM™, an in-memory computing approach that targets orders-of-magnitude gains in efficiency for wearables, robotics, and IoT devices. Trained in micro/nanotechnologies and computational neuroscience (PhD-level research at UZH/ETH), he combines deep hardware verification experience from Imagination Technologies with hands-on analog and FPGA design. Alessandro bridges academic research and productization, overseeing R&D, strategic partnerships, and time-to-market for semiconductor-grade solutions. He is driven by a passion for avant-garde technologies and a habit of pushing technical limits, evidenced by his cross-disciplinary background in physical engineering, nanofabrication, and neural-network accelerator design. Based in Zurich, he contributes to doctoral program governance and focuses on translating novel digital design research into practical, scalable chips.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Science, Computational Neuroscience, Doctor of Science, Computational Neuroscience at University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Micro and Nano Technologies for Integrated Systems, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Micro and Nano Technologies for Integrated Systems at EPFL
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Micro and Nanotechnologies for Integrated Systems at Grenoble INP - UGA
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Nanotechnology for IT, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Nanotechnology for IT at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English, French