Lumin.ai Pasadena, California

Tom Ngo is Founder & CEO of Lumin.ai. Previously he served as Chief Product Officer at Idealab, as Vice President at Disney Research, and in executive positions at multiple startups. In prior technical work, he co-invented an efficient delivery mechanism for broadband media, ground-breaking techniques for synthetic computer animation and a physically compact device for implementing the famous cocktail-party effect. Tom holds a Ph.D. in Computational Biophysics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cambridge University, where he graduated with first-class honors and received the first Sir Neville Mott prize for the best undergraduate thesis in theoretical physics.