Yichen Shen, Founder of Lightelligence

Yichen Shen is the founder of Lightelligence. Lightelligence has raised $3.2B in total funding. Latest round: Series C. Based in Shanghai, China.

About Yichen Shen

Yichen Shen is the Founder and CEO of Lightelligence, the world's first optical computing company, which he founded as an MIT spinout after earning his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 2016. He is recognized as a Technology Review 35U35 honoree and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Shen leads Lightelligence's development of silicon-based photonic computing chips that combine light and electricity to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks.

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