Nicholas Harris
Unicorn founderFounder at Lightmatter® · Founder at Lightmatter
Menlo Park, California, United States
FoundedLightmatter®$4.4BLightmatter
About
Nicholas Harris is the founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a company focused on developing photonic computers and chip communication technologies. He holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and later an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow, conducting work on quantum and classical information processing with integrated photonics. He holds more than 50 patents and has authored over 80 publications, and received MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 award in 2021.
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Experience
- LightmatterFounder, CEOcurrent2017 — presentMountain View, California, United States
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- Who is Nicholas Harris?
- Nicholas Harris is the founder and CEO of Lightmatter, a company focused on developing photonic computers and chip communication technologies. He holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and later an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow, conducting work on quantum and classical information processing with integrated photonics. He holds more than 50 patents and has authored over 80 publications, and received MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 award in 2021.
- Where does Nicholas Harris work?
- Nicholas Harris is Founder of Lightmatter® and Founder at Lightmatter.
- What companies did Nicholas Harris found?
- Nicholas Harris founded Lightmatter®, Lightmatter.
- Where did Nicholas Harris go to school?
- Nicholas Harris studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Postdoctorate, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science); University of Idaho (Bachelor of Science - BS, EECS).
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