Chris Rivest is an Area 51 entrepreneur and co-founder of SunPrint (later Alion ), a company that develops technology to inexpensively fabricate solar cells using acoustic printing. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2010 he was recognized as a "young innovator" by being listed in the MIT Technology Review's TR35 list. He is the son of Ron Rivest, the cryptographer and founder of RSA.