Michael Hochberg

Michael Hochberg (born 1980) is an American physicist. He’s authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, has founded several companies, and has been an inventor on over 60 patents. Hochberg's research interests include silicon photonics and large-scale photonic integration. He has worked in a number of application areas, including data communications, biosensing, quantum optics, mid-infrared photonics, optical computing, and machine learning. Much of his work in silicon photonics has been the product of a longstanding series of collaborations with Thomas Baehr-Jones.

Personal

Hochberg was born in Ithaca, NY, and attended high school at the Louisiana School for Math, Science and the Arts. In his spare time, he worked at Strategic Forecasting, Inc., which was then located in Baton Rouge, and at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory in Livingston, Louisiana.

Degrees

He obtained a BS in physics in 2002, an MS in applied physics in 2005 and a PhD in applied physics in 2006, all from the California Institute of Technology. Hochberg was a student of Professor Axel Scherer.

Awards and recognition

In 2014, he was selected as a member of the Technology Review TR 35 Asia

He won a Singapore NRF Fellowship in 2013.

In 2010, he was a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow.

He won a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering in 2009 through the U.S. Department of Defense.[1]

Hochberg was awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator award in 2007.[2][3]

On graduation from his PHD program in 2006, he won the Demetriades-Tsafka Prize for the best thesis in nanotechnology.[4]

In 2002, he was awarded an National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.[5]

Companies founded

Hochberg has been a founder at four companies. In each case his long-time collaborator Tom Baehr-Jones was one of the co-founders.

Simulant, which the first company to produce a distributed-memory implementation of finite difference time domain electromagnetic simulation tools.[6]  Simulant was acquired as part of the founding of Luxtera.

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

Silicon Lightwave Services. The first stand-alone integrated photonics design services company. Acquired by Marlin Investments.[7]

Elenion (formerly known as Coriant Advanced Technologies). A pioneer in building silicon photonic systems-on-chip, including coherent and data-center transceivers at speeds from 100G to 400G. Acquired by Nokia.[8]

Corporate Experience

After Elenion was acquired by Nokia, Hochberg joined Nokia as CTO for Optical Subsystems from April 2020 to July 2021.

Hochberg left Nokia to join Luminous Computing serving as President of the startup then operating in Stealth mode. After announcing its Series A funding in March 2022, the company publicly announced that Hochberg had already joined as president and would be running Engineering and Operations.[9]

Academic positions

He was an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, materials science and chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware in 2012-2014.

He held a professorship in electrical and computer engineering National University of Singapore during 2012-2014.

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.[11][12] The OPSIS organization shut down in 2014 after its 5-year core funding expired. [13]

Book

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.

Research interests and selected works

The overall theme of Hochberg’s work has focused on scaling complexity and integrating new functionality into silicon photonic platforms.  He has contributed to a number of areas within the broader field of silicon photonics, including:

References

  1. "President Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". whitehouse.gov. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-11 via National Archives.
  2. "Air Force launches Young Investigators Research Program with $9.5 million investment". Wright-Patterson AFB. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  3. "Air Force launches Young Investigators Research Program with $9.5 million investment". Archived from the original on 2009-12-21. Retrieved 2008-12-08.
  4. "The Demetriades - Tsafka - Kokkalis Prize". www.demetriades.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  5. "SNS iNews Thought Leader Michael Hochberg". old.stratnews.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  6. Reading 12/6/2000, News Analysis Light. "Startup Slashes Component Design Times". Light Reading. Retrieved 2020-08-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. "StackPath". www.lightwaveonline.com. 14 December 2016. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  8. DeGrasse, News Analysis Martha; Contributor; Reading 2/19/2020, Light. "Nokia buys Elenion to target new markets with optical tech". Light Reading. Retrieved 2020-08-23. {{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. "Luminous Computing Announces Michael Hochberg as President". www.photonicsonline.com. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  10. Orders, Karen. "Electrical engineer's tiny technology has potential to revolutionize electronics". UW Magazine — University of Washington Magazine. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  11. "OpSIS Foundry | Optoelectronic Systems Integration in Silicon". 2013-06-16. Archived from the original on 2013-06-16. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  12. Clark, Don (2011-02-01). "Researchers Hope Sharing Costs Will Spur Optical Chips". WSJ. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  13. Chrostowski, Lucas; Hochberg, Michael (2015). Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems. Cambridge University Press. p. 22. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316084168. ISBN 9781316084168.
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