Michael Hochberg

Luxtera, which was founded later in his undergraduate career, pioneered building silicon integrated optics in a CMOS foundry.

Hochberg left Nokia to join Luminous Computing serving as President of the startup then operating in Stealth mode.

He held a position as assistant professor in electrical engineering at the University of Washington from 2007 to 2012. and as an adjunct in physics for part of this period.

[10] He was also the founding director of OpSIS: A US-based non-profit institute which pioneered the use of PDK’s and shared MPW runs for silicon photonics, with backing from the Air Force, Intel, Mentor Graphics, and several others.

[13] He and Lukas Chrostowski co-authored a book called Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems which has become a widely used text for courses in the field.

The overall theme of Hochberg’s work has focused on scaling complexity and integrating new functionality into silicon photonic platforms.