Nicholas Harris
Unicorn founderFounder, CEO at Lightmatter® · Founder at Lightmatter
Menlo Park, California, United States
FoundedLightmatter®$4.4BLightmatter
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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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Frequently asked questions
- 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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