Jonathan Klamkin

Founder and CEO

Aeluma

Jonathan Klamkin is CEO and Director of Aeluma, a transformative semiconductor company that has pioneered the heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductor materials on large-diameter substrates for scaling high-performance photonics and electronics components. The company's technology is applicable across mobile and consumer electronics, AI, defense & aerospace, industrial, robotics, automotive, AR/VR, and quantum. Dr. Klamkin is also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Nanofab at the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Klamkin was with BinOptics Corp., a laser diode manufacturer that was acquired by Macom in 2015. He also held positions at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Boston University, and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Dr. Klamkin is the recipient of the NASA Young Faculty Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the DARPA Director’s Fellowship, and the PIERS Young Scientist Award. He has published more than 250 papers, holds more than 30 issued and pending patents, and has delivered more than 150 invited, keynote, and plenary presentations to industry, government, and the academic community. Dr. Klamkin holds a B.S. from Cornell University and both a M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara. 

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