Andrew "bunnie" Huang is a hardware hacker who broke the security on the original Xbox and made some of the first integrated CMOS nanophotonic chip.
eWeek magazine declared him one of the top 15 most influential people in modern computer security of 2008.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-15-Most-Influential-People-in-Secu...
http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/