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Michael Hochberg
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Michael Hochberg Affiliate Assistant Professor University of Washington Box 352500 Seattle, WA 98195 |
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Phone: (206) 543-2150 E-mail: hochberg@udel.edu |
Cal Tech PhD 2006
Cal Tech MS 2005
Cal Tech BS 2002
Biosketch
Michael Hochberg received his BS (Physics, 2002), his MS (Applied Physics, 2005) and his PhD (Applied Physics, 2006) from Caltech, and his thesis was awarded the Demetriades-Tsafka Prize in Nanotechnology for the best thesis by a graduating Ph.D. student in the field of Nanotechnology As an undergraduate, he co-founded two companies: Simulant, which sold the first commercial distributed FDTD code, and Luxtera, a venture-funded company working to commercialize silicon photonics. As a graduate student, he worked on developing integrated nonlinear optical devices using silicon photonics. He was the recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and, as an undergraduate, of a merit-based fellowship from Caltech. He recently joined the faculty at the University of Washington in Electrical Engineering, where he was the recipient of an Air Force Office of Sponsored Research Young Investigators Program award in 2007.
Research Interests
Nanophotonics Lab: http://nanophotonics.ece.udel.edu/
