Hochberg will head up an engineering team looking to solve that hardware challenge using silicon photonics, and the series A funding just announced will be used to double the size of the Luminous engineering team. Hochberg, who founded ventures including Luxtera - now part of Cisco Systems, and Elenion - since acquired by Nokia - joins Luminous just a couple of weeks after the Mountain View firm emerged from stealth mode with news of a $105 million funding round supported by Bill Gates and Gigafund, among others.Īccording to Luminous’ co-founder and CEO Marcus Gomez, while the computing industry has now developed the software required for artificial intelligence (AI), the hardware needed to run the necessary algorithms simply isn’t yet available. Luminous Computing, a Silicon Valley startup developing a radical supercomputer design based on photonics technology, has hired the silicon photonics expert Michael Hochberg as its company president, and to head up its engineering and operations activities. Before that, he was CTO at Rebeless, a startup creating photonic integrated circuit technology for wideband signal processing.Silicon photonics pioneer Michael Hochberg Matt Change, the company's vice president of photonics, also received a PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton and spent two years at Apple designing hardware to reduce interference between co-existing wireless radios on the Apple Watch, leaving in 2019. While at the school, Nahmias researched the relationship between a laser and a biological spiking neuron, which helped create the field of neuromorphic photonics. Mitch Nahmias, co-founder and Luminous' CTO, received his BS, MA and PhD in electrical and electronics engineering from Princeton. He dropped out of Stanford's MS program to launch Luminous. Gomez was a research scientist at dating app company Tinder in 2018 and work in research roles at Google (in machine intelligence) and the Mayo Clinic, a software engineer at Bloomberg and a researcher of network biology at the Harvard Medical School. Luminous' plans come from years of research done by the founders and other company executives.
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