Ben Lee joined NVIDIA Research in 2021 as a member of the Circuits Research Group with focus in photonics.  He received the B.S. degree from Oklahoma State University (Stillwater, OK) in 2004, and Ph.D. degree from Columbia University (New York, NY) in 2009, both in electrical engineering. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Ben was a Research Staff Member at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.  His technical interests include short-reach, high-speed, and low-energy optical interconnects and integrated photonic systems.

Angad S. Rekhi joined NVIDIA Research in 2021 as a member of the Circuits Research Group. His current research interests include package-level photonics, next-generation signaling systems, and machine learning acceleration.

Marco Pavone is Director of Autonomous Vehicle Research at NVIDIA. His main research interests are in the development of methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of autonomous systems, with an emphasis on self-driving cars, autonomous aerospace vehicles, and future mobility systems. He is currently on partial leave from Stanford University, where he is an Associate Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics.