Dr. Tennenhouse has a track record of driving innovation across multiple domains. He has worked in academia as a faculty member at MIT, in government at DARPA and NSF, in industry at Intel, Amazon/A9.com, Microsoft, and VMware, and as a partner in a venture capital firm.
At MIT, he led disruptive research in software-based video, software radio, and software-defined networks. In government and industry, he oversaw the strategic planning and execution of programs covering a wide range of technologies, including data-intensive and cloud computing, AI/ML, semiconductors, networking, computer architecture, storage, digital assets, and nanotechnology/biotechnology.
Dr. Tennenhouse holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and earned his PhD from the University of Cambridge. A Fellow of the IEEE and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, he was awarded the National Academy of Engineering’s Arthur M. Bueche Award in 2023 for pioneering new approaches to industry-government-academia collaboration, including an innovative open collaborative research model and multiple public-private partnerships.