Max Katz completed a congressional fellowship with Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM), supporting the office’s technology and energy portfolio as well as the Senate AI Caucus. After his fellowship, he continued at Sen. Heinrich’s office as a Policy Advisor.
He was previously a Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA, where he helped the US Department of Energy use their supercomputers to do cutting-edge science. His research area is in computational astrophysics and he continues to perform research in this area on the world’s leading supercomputers. Max holds a PhD in physics from Stony Brook University and a BS and MS in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.