Speaker Bio
Dr. Monk joined Cohere in 2024 as Senior Vice President of Strategy. He also led the company’s Standards and Partnerships efforts from 2015 to 2018, driving industry and academic outreach and co-authoring the first paper on OTFS. Previously, Dr. Monk was VP and CTO of Wireless Initiatives at Viasat, a global satellite operator, where he drove cellular, fixed wireless and direct-to-cell technology initiatives and partnerships. He was a co-founder and held the roles of VP and CTO of Entropic Communications, a formerly publicly traded semiconductor company that invented the MoCA home networking solution used by Pay TV service providers for multi-room DVR throughout the U.S. Dr. Monk earned a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and B.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.