Dr. Matt Casto currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the Midwest Microelectronics Consortium (MMEC), where he is responsible for guiding the technological direction of MMEC, leading product research and development from the laboratory to commercialization. Dr. Casto is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Wright State University, as well as a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Dr. Casto joined MMEC in 2023, after serving 20 years in numerous Department of Defense (DoD) technical leadership positions, including roles at the Pentagon in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Director for the DoD Trusted and Assured Microelectronics (T&AM) Program and in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force as the Department of Air Force Senior Strategic Advisor for Microelectronics Innovation. As Chief for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Components and Subsystems Division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dr. Casto led the discovery, development, and integration of affordable sensor and countermeasure technologies for Air and Space Force warfighters.

In addition to his DoD experience, Dr. Casto has proven expertise in driving commercial product innovation. From 2021 to 2023, he successfully led high-volume intelligent secure access control operations as CTO and Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and Engineering R&D at The Genie Company.

Dr. Casto has authored more than 50 publications, patents, and invited talks on advanced, secure, and reliable semiconductor and electronics technology and is a 2020 inductee and member of the IEEE Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) Hall of Fame.