Michael Gao
Michael Gao
Co-Founder and CEO
Fabric Cryptography
Michael is cofounder and CEO at Fabric Cryptography – a team of AI supercomputing veterans and crypto natives building the Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU). The VPU is the world’s first general purpose ASIC processor for cryptography, including zero knowledge proofs (ZKP) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), with over $60 million in VPU pre-orders for delivery this year.
Michael got into Bitcoin at age 14 by mining on his family's GPU. He eventually invested in the world’s first BTC ASIC and owned 1% of the global BTC hashrate while in high school. He dropped out of MIT to focus on transformative deep tech, such as Luminous Computing, a photonic AI supercomputing startup backed by Bill Gates, where he served as cofounder, CSO and Chief Architect.
He holds several US patents in photonics and digital design, and is a USA Math Olympiad winner and USA Computing Olympiad finalist.
Michael got into Bitcoin at age 14 by mining on his family's GPU. He eventually invested in the world’s first BTC ASIC and owned 1% of the global BTC hashrate while in high school. He dropped out of MIT to focus on transformative deep tech, such as Luminous Computing, a photonic AI supercomputing startup backed by Bill Gates, where he served as cofounder, CSO and Chief Architect.
He holds several US patents in photonics and digital design, and is a USA Math Olympiad winner and USA Computing Olympiad finalist.