Mojo Vision Appoints 2023 Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi to Advisory Board

Strengthens materials leadership as the company scales its micro-LED platform across optical interconnect and display markets

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED platform company, today announced that Dr. Moungi Bawendi, recipient of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has joined the company’s Advisory Board.

Dr. Bawendi is the Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry at MIT and one of the most influential figures in nanomaterials science. He is among the most cited chemists in the world, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His honors include the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and recognition as a Clarivate Citation Laureate. His work has defined the field of semiconductor nanocrystals and enabled their application across light-emitting systems, sensing technologies, and advanced photonic platforms.

Dr. Bawendi was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the discovery and development of quantum dots, a breakthrough class of nanoscale semiconductor materials now used across a wide range of consumer, industrial, and advanced technology applications. His research helped transform quantum dots from a scientific discovery into commercially scalable materials with real-world impact across multiple industries.

“Mojo Vision represents a unique approach to integrating advanced materials like quantum dots into the micro-LED semiconductor platform,” said Dr. Bawendi. “It is exciting to see how innovations in light-emitting materials and nanostructures can be extended beyond traditional displays into broader optical and connectivity systems. I look forward to working with the team as they realize the full potential of this platform.”

“Dr. Bawendi is a true pioneer whose work fundamentally shaped the field of quantum dots and modern optoelectronics,” said Dr. Nikhil Balram, CEO of Mojo Vision. “Our micro-LED platform brings together breakthrough materials and semiconductor innovation to enable entirely new categories of display and high-density optical interconnects. His deep expertise at the intersection of chemistry, materials science, and scalable manufacturing will be invaluable as we continue to push the boundaries of our platform.”

Dr. Bawendi joins fellow advisory board members Dr. Waguih Ishak, Dr. Anthony Yu, and Dr. Rajeeva Lahri, further strengthening the company’s technical leadership. Dr. Ishak, a distinguished photonics pioneer and former chief technologist at Corning, said: “Moungi is a pioneering chemist at MIT whose work transformed quantum dots from a laboratory curiosity into a foundational nanotechnology platform. A recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, he established the precise synthesis methods that enabled their widespread use in displays, imaging, and photonics. Widely regarded as one of the architects of modern nanoscience, his deep scientific insight and exceptional real-world impact, will be tremendously beneficial to Mojo Vision’s future.”

Today’s announcement builds on Mojo Vision’s recent momentum, including a $75 million financing last August, a $17.5 million strategic investment in March, and a long-term collaboration with Marvell Technology. Together, these milestones position the company to scale its platform across high-growth markets, including AI data centers and next-generation AI glasses.

For more information about Mojo Vision, visit mojo.vision.com.

About Mojo Vision

Mojo Vision is pioneering a highly flexible, wafers-in, wafers-out micro-LED platform to unlock AI applications across multiple high-growth markets. Built over a decade by a team of skilled engineers, the company has developed a powerful technology toolkit – including advanced 300mm silicon architecture, tiny GaN-on-silicon micro-LED emitters, efficient photodetectors, proprietary quantum dots, custom micro-lens arrays, multicore fiber bundles, and proprietary software – that can be configured in custom ways depending on the application. Our scalable, manufacturing-ready platform resolves conventional trade-offs in size, brightness, bandwidth density, and power, enabling breakthrough products such as next-generation AI glasses and massively parallel optical interconnects for AI infrastructure.