Tom Baehr-Jones (born January 15, 1980, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American physicist who has made contributions in the field of Nanophotonics. His findings have been published in Nature , [1] Science , [2] Nature Photonics , [3] Nature Materials , [4] the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology , [5] and Optics Express , [6] among many others. Baehr-Jones is a co-founder of Luxtera, Inc. He later joined Prof. Michael Hochberg's group at the University of Washington, and was also a co-founder of Elenion. He later joined Luminous Computing as a senior fellow, and is presently VP of Photonics at Luminous Computing.