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.

After having received a master's degree in engineering mathematics at Lund University and finished an internship at NVIDIA, Pontus became an industrial PhD student at the company, supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program. He is supervised by Tomas Akenine-Möller and he is affiliated to Lund University, where his supervisors are Kalle Åström and Magnus Oskarsson.