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Michael's career has spanned the space between fundamental research and commercialization since his time as an undergraduate in physics at Caltech. In 1999, he and his collaborator, Tom Baehr-Jones, developed a design tool for the accurate simulation of silicon photonic components as part of their research and spun the effort off as a company called Simulant. He co-founded his second company in silicon photonics, Luxtera, during his senior year. (Luxtera was acquired in 2018 by Cisco Systems for $660,000,000.) In the years since 2002, his work has been pivotal in the creation of a number of companies, in areas from photonic biosensing to optical computing... After returning to Caltech for his post-graduate degrees in 2003, he completed his MS in two years and his Ph.D. in applied physics in one year. On graduation, he won the Demetriades-Tsafka Prize for the best thesis by a graduating Ph.D. student in the field of nanotechnology at Caltech... Michael Hochberg is a physicist and a..