Michael Hochberg

Michael Hochberg is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his BS (Physics, 2002), his MS (Applied Physics, 2005) and his PhD (Applied Physics, 2006) from Caltech, and he was awarded the Demetriades-Tsafka Prize in Nanotechnology for the best dissertation by a graduating Ph.D. student in the field of Nanotechnology. As a graduate student, he worked on developing integrated nonlinear optical devices using silicon photonics. He was also the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and, as an undergraduate, of a merit-based fellowship from Caltech. As an undergraduate, Hochberg co-founded two companies: Simulant, which sold the first commercial distributed FDTD code, and Luxtera, a venture-funded company working to commercialize silicon photonics. He recently joined the faculty at the University of Washington, where he was the recipient of a 2007 Air Force Office of Sponsored Research Young Investigators Program award, as well as a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE) in 2009.