Thought Leader Profile
Michael Hochberg
Director, Institute for Photonic Integration, University of WashingtonMichael Hochberg received his BS in Physics (2002), his MS in Applied Physics (2005), and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics (2006) from Caltech. His thesis was awarded the Demetriades-Tsafka Prize in Nanotechnology for the best thesis by a graduating Ph.D. student in the field of Nanotechnology.
As an undergraduate, Michael co-founded two companies: Simulant, which sold the first commercial distributed FDTD code; and Luxtera, a venture-funded company working to commercialize silicon photonics. As a graduate student, he worked on developing integrated nonlinear optical devices using silicon photonics. He was the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and, as an undergraduate, of a merit-based fellowship from Caltech.
Michael recently joined the faculty at the University of Washington in Electrical Engineering, where he was the recipient of an Air Force Office of Sponsored Research Young Investigators Program award in 2007.
Speaker at FiRe 2011
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Silicon photonics pioneer Hochberg joins Luminous Computing - Optics.org -
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Q&A With Luminous Computing President Dr Michael Hochberg - Photonics Online -
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Luminous Computing Announces Michael Hochberg as President - Business Wire