Dr. Sal Savo, a former Northeastern alumnus, was the co-founder and COO of the lab monitoring company TetraScience.  He helped grow Tetrascience into an international service with customers around the globe.  With TetraScience’s recent acquisition by Elemental Machines, he now serves in the role of CTO at Elemental Machines. Prior to co-founding TetraScience he pursued an international Ph.D. program in Photonics and Metamaterials, co-financed by the University of Naples in Italy and Northeastern University in Boston, and spent five more years working as scientist in several top notch academic institutions, like Harvard University, Boston University and Southampton University in U.K. During his tenure in academia, Sal published several highly cited papers on high impact journals like Nature Materials and Advanced Optical Materials. Prior to that, Sal also worked as process data analyst engineer for the world leader in the semiconductor industry Micron Technology.