Ari Novack is co-founder and CTO of Enosemi. He has over a decade of experience developing silicon photonics-based hardware. He was Vice President of System Hardware Design at Luminous Computing. Before that, he was part of the founding team at Elenion Technologies where he led the advanced module design team through the release of several products and through an acquisition by Nokia. Ari holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and a B.S. from Swarthmore College. He is an author of 20+ patents as well as numerous academic publications.