Moshe Nazarathy, Ph.D., an accomplished entrepreneur and academic, is Professor Emeritus at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He holds, as (co-)inventor over 30 patents/patent-applications. For his contributions to Electrical & Electronic Engineering he has been selected as a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of OPTICA (OSA).

Moshe obtained his B.Sc. cum laude and Doctor of Science EE degrees at the Technion. During the years 1982-1984 he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher and Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University’s Information Systems laboratory (USA). He subsequently pursued an industrial career, from 1984-1988 as Researcher at Hewlett Packard’s Instruments Laboratory.

In 1988, he co-founded Harmonic Inc. in the Silicon Valley (HLIT:NASD;  a company that today has a market capitalization of the order of 1,5 Billion USD). He held the roles of Senior Vice-President and Corporate CTO, while serving as member of Harmonic’s Board of Directors from 1988 to 2001. In 1995 he set up the Research Center of Harmonic in Israel and was its General Manager until 2000. In 2000-2001 Moshe returned to the Silicon Valley as VP of Engineering to oversee Harmonic’s merger with Divicom Inc., while heading there an R&D team of hundreds of engineers. Altogether, at Harmonic, Moshe contributed to the stabilization and creation of thousands of jobs, in the US, Israel and world-wide. His role at Harmonic, is also discussed at the company’s Wikipedia page.

He then served, until 2015, as a Technology Venture Partner with Giza Ventures, a leading VC firm in Israel, as well as on the Advisory Board of several start-up companies and also assumed a Visiting Professor position at the Technion in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). In 2007 he became a tenured Associate Professor at the Technion and in 2014 he was granted the rank of Tenured Full Professor. As part of his contribution to the Technion ECE, Moshe served in 2015-2018 as Head, Center for Communication and Information Technologies (CCIT) Industrial Affiliates Program (IAP), developing and expanding the ECE academia-to-industry technology transfer process.

Since Oct 2021, when he became Professor Emeritus, Moshe has engaged in intense photonic research aiming to disrupt short-reach photonic interconnects for datacenters, AI workloads, and the Cloud, as well as in conceiving a new generation of ultra-sensitive photonic sensors. On the relevant topics, besides inventing Intellectual Property, he has published extensively. In 2023, he was listed in the “Photonics 100” list of most innovative people in the Electro-Optics Industry.

Moshe’s main interests currently are ultra-high-speed, energy-efficient (green) Photonic Analog/Digital Communication Systems and Signal-Processing to enable high performance networks for access, backbone and 5G/6G x-haul networks, as well as Datacenters and AI Clusters.