| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D | |
| Electrical Engineering |
Andrew Huang, VP Hardware Engineering and Founder of Chumby, is a nocturnal hacker and the hardware lead; his responsibilities include the architecture, design and production of the chumby’s electronics, as well as writing drivers for and maintaining the Linux kernel on the chumby.
He has completed several major projects, ranging from hacking the Xbox (and writing the eponymous book), to designing the world’s first fully-integrated photonic-silicon chips running at 10 Gbps with Luxtera, Inc., to building some of the first prototype hardware for silicon nanowire device research with Caltech. Andrew has also participated in the design of 802.11b/Bluetooth transceivers (with Mobilian), graphics chips (with SGI), digital cinema CODECs (with Qualcomm), and autonomous robotic submarines (with MIT ORCA/AUVSI).
He is also responsible for the un-design of many security systems, with an appetite for the challenge of digesting silicon-based hardware security. Andrew is also a contributing writer for MAKE magazine and a member of their technical advisory board.
