Michael Kagan, Chief Technology Officer of NVIDIA and an alumnus of the Technion’s Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the Technion Alumni Medal at a ceremony on October 26, 2026. The medal recognizes his exceptional contributions to high-performance computing and communications technologies and his continued support for the Technion. His career includes processor development at Intel and co-founding Mellanox, where he led the development of accelerated networking technologies. At NVIDIA, he focuses on computing infrastructure that enables advances in artificial intelligence.
The Faculty congratulates Kagan on this distinction. Previous medal recipients among its alumni include Dadi Perlmutter, Aharon Aharon, and Yizhar Shai.
