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Nicholas Harris

Unicorn founder

Founder, CEO at Lightmatter® · Founder at Lightmatter

Menlo Park, California, United States

FoundedLightmatter®$4.4BLightmatter

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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.

Founder, CEO at Lightmatter®

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DBDarius Bunandar
Darius BunandarFounder, Chief Scientist
TGThomas Graham
Thomas GrahamFounder, Head of Machine Learning
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Nick HarrisFounder

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GHGreg Hausheer
Greg HausheerCEO and Founder
BBBen Beecher
Ben BeecherCTO and Founder
TGThomas Graham
Thomas GrahamFounder

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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, CEO of Lightmatter® and Founder at Lightmatter.
What companies did Nicholas Harris found?
Nicholas Harris founded Lightmatter®, Lightmatter.

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