Mitchell Nahmias

Mitch is a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Luminous Computing. He knew, very early on, what he wanted to do: to make machine intelligence a reality. He began as a researcher at Princeton, where he was pioneer in establishing a mathematical relationship between a laser andia biological spiking neuron. This helped create a field now known as Neuromorphic Photonics. His focus soon switched to building systems of neurons, where he discovered that the real bottleneck was communicating data across the dense networks that connected neurons together. As he saw neural networks becoming commercially useful at a large scale, Mitch realized that the best way to create the most powerful Al supercomputer was to build a Company to do it. He received his B.S., M.A., and Ph. D. at Princeton, where he was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. While at Princeton, he was a contributing author to the textbook on Neuromorphic Photonics, and is an author on more than 70 papers and patents. His work has been cited over 2,700 times. He led the Afrobeat band, Sensemaya, and was a member for over 10 years. Mitch has played piano professionally as a jazz musician for most of his life, despite never having learned to properly read music.