Sanad Bushnaq, Ph.D.

Dr. Sanad Bushnaq is a semiconductor and microchip technology expert with a track record of world-first chips. With more than 15 years of experience spanning industry and academia, his groundbreaking inventions at the nanometer–scale shaped the evolution of modern memory and logic chips, driving innovation at Toshiba Memory (Japan) – now Kioxia Corp- , MIT (USA), and Intel (USA). Dr. Bushnaq was vital in developing several cutting-edge breakthroughs, with over 25 patents and publications for his inventions in the world’s first 48-layer 3D flash chip, the world’s first 96-layer 3D flash chip, and the world’s fastest flash memory chip developed by Toshiba in Japan.

Dr. Bushnaq pioneers strategies and solutions that break the conventional trade-off between chip’s performance, power consumption and its area. He led multi-disciplinary design and verification teams across analog, digital, mixed-signal domains to deliver next-generation chips and IPs. Dr. Bushnaq achieved first-time-right silicon with use of AI in chip design, automation techniques, and rigorous sign-off methodologies that prioritizes quality, completeness and on-time deliveries.

With deep ties in the region and impact at the highest levels that strengthened ties between the far East, far West and the Middle East. He has served as an advisor to the president of the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan, HRH Princess Sumaya Bint El Hassan, an advisor to the Board of Trustees of Princess Sumaya University for Technology, and an advisor to Japan Science and Technology Agency. He built relationships between institutions in the region and global semiconductor companies, including initiating a fully-funded scholarship program to dispatch students from Jordan to train in Toshiba in Japan. In 2017, Dr Bushnaq received a royal recognition from His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein at the 8th World Science Forum, organized by UNESCO, the International Science Council and the Royal Scientific Society of Jordan.

Dr Bushnaq was born and raised in Jordan, before he moved to Japan in 2007. He obtained his Masters and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo.