Tom previously ran the technology pipeline at Sila Nanotechnologies where he led teams developing revolutionary materials for electric vehicle batteries and the transition to clean energy. Tom also spent six years at Google X managing a portfolio of projects including next generation computation, applied machine learning, underground construction, biotechnology, and climate change reduction. He also founded a printed solar panel company in 2008, is a named inventor on over a dozen patents, and authored ten academic publications.
His academic work includes the Miller Fellowship at UC Berkeley, a PhD in Physics from Harvard, and a BS in physics from Stanford.