Pratik Nimbalkar

Pratik Nimbalkar is the Founder and CEO of Plaid Semiconductors, a company redefining advanced packaging with its System-on-Glass™ platform for AI-scale computing. He earned his PhD in Materials Science from Georgia Tech, where he developed novel interconnect technologies for high-performance computing. Pratik has authored over 15 publications, holds four patents and has deep expertise spanning materials, process integration, and chiplet architectures. His work bridges cutting-edge research with scalable manufacturing, enabling a vision of fitting an entire data center rack on a single substrate.