About
Ayman Saleh worked as an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on space missions including the James Webb Space Telescope and Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, later led engineering at FlightWave, and attended Stanford University before founding Chronicle Labs.
Founder at Chronicle LabsYC X26
Intro paths
YC
Ayman went through Y Combinator (Spring 2026) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Pete Koomen, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Chronicle Labs's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Ayman can intro founders to Chronicle Labs's investors below.
Chronicle Labs's investors · 2
Experience
- Chronicle LabsCo-Foundercurrent2026 — presentLos Angeles Metropolitan Area
- FlightWave AerospaceDirector of Software 🛫2023 — 2025United States
- KibsiSenior Computer Vision Engineer 📸2021 — 2023United States
- NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratorySenior Image Processing Engineer 🛰2019 — 2021United States
- Deutsche BankQuantitative Researcher 🏦2018 — 2019New York City Metropolitan Area
- Expedition Technology IncMachine Learning Engineer 🧠2017 — 2019Washington D.C. Metro Area
- NVIDIASoftware Engineer Intern 👨🏻💻2018San Francisco Bay Area
- MicrosoftSoftware Engineer Intern2017New York City Metropolitan Area
Skills & more
LinkedIn Sales NavigatorComputer Vision21Machine Learning19Research24Robotics6Python10C++8OpenCV6ROS1SLAM2Perception1Stereo Vision1
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Deep LearningNerual NetworksConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Point Cloud Library (PCL)Image ProcessingCUDANeural NetworksAlgorithmsTensorFlowCMATLABPyTorchLanguages Arabic · English · Italian
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ayman Saleh?
- Ayman Saleh worked as an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on space missions including the James Webb Space Telescope and Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, later led engineering at FlightWave, and attended Stanford University before founding Chronicle Labs.
- Where does Ayman Saleh work?
- Ayman Saleh is Founder of Chronicle Labs.
- What companies did Ayman Saleh found?
- Ayman Saleh founded Chronicle Labs.
- Where did Ayman Saleh go to school?
- Ayman Saleh studied at Stanford University (Master's degree, Robotics and Autonomous Systems); Rutgers University (Bachelor’s Degree, Robotics Engineering).
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