Bio
Mike is currently the Director of Sensors at Meta, where he leads a multidisciplinary team of 75+ engineers responsible for all HW sensing solutions across Meta’s product platforms. His organization covers multiple sensing modalities, including image, motion, bio, and MEMS-based sensors. His team has played a key role in launching many of Meta’s flagship products, including the delivery of all sensors for the Quest (MR) and Ray-Ban (Smart Glasses) line of products. During Mike’s tenure at Meta, his team has developed innovative sensing solutions for face, head, eye, and hand tracking applications, as well as novel authentication and biosensing modalities. Most recently, he has focused on smart sensors for contextual AI.
Prior to joining Meta, Mike started his career at Intellectual Ventures Labs, working on innovative optical sensors for Global Health diagnostics. Under the auspices of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he built and led a team of scientists and engineers to develop an automated scanning microscope for diagnosing malaria which was later deployed in Sub-Saharan Africa. After his tenure at IV, he was involved in several sensor-based startups in Seattle and Boston and was a lecturer in the Department of Physics at Harvard University. Mike received the B.S. in Physics from Washington and Lee University, the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, and was a postdoctoral fellow with George Whitesides at Harvard University.