Michael Hochberg earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech and is currently the president at Luminous Computing, a company building supercomputers for machine learning. He founded four companies, representing an exit value over a billion dollars in aggregate, spent some time as a tenured professor, and started the world’s first silicon photonics foundry service. He’s authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and has been an inventor on over 60 patents. He also co-authored a widely used textbook on silicon photonics, and has published work in Science, Nature, National Review, The Hill, American Spectator, RealClearDefense, Fast Company, among others.