Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization 
Matrix Industries
Gender Male
Akram obtained his PhD in Chemistry from Caltech after double majoring in EE and Chemistry at UCLA. At Caltech, Akram was the co-discoverer of high performance silicon thermoelectrics. He then joined the faculty in the Materials Science Department at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor. There his group made a breakthrough in the
manufacture of silicon thermoelectrics that led to seed funding from Khosla Ventures. Akram is now pursuing his dream of taking a laboratory discovery to commercialization as full-time CEO at Silicium
