Curriculum Vitae

Experience

Lightmatter

Sep 2017 - Present

Founder, President, CEO

Raised over $850M from investors including Sequoia and Google Ventures

MIT

Sep 2017 - Jan 2018

Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow

Micron

Jan 2009 - Jun 2011

R&D Product Engineer

Education

PhD, Electrical Engineering

Jul 2013 - Sep 2017

MIT

MSc, Electrical Engineering

Jun 2011 - Jul 2013

University of Washington

BSc, Electrical Engineering

Sep 2005 - May 2009

University of Idaho

Recognition

Goldman Sachs Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs

2025

Boston Globe's Tech Power Players 50

2024

Photonics100

2022

MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35

2021

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

2012

Research

87+

Patents

82

Publications

Pioneered research in quantum and classical information processing with integrated photonics

Select Publications

Nature vol. 640, pgs. 368–374 (2025)

Nature Photonics vol. 19, pgs. 911–912 (2025)

Nature Photonics vol. 18, pgs. 1335–1343 (2024)

Nature vol. 591, pgs. 229-233 (2021)

Nature Physics vol. 16, pgs. 322–327 (2020)

Nature Photonics vol. 11, pgs. 447–452 (2017)

Nature Photonics vol. 11, pgs. 441–446 (2017)

Nature Comms. vol. 6, no. 5873 (2015)

Phys. Rev. X 4, 041047 (2014)

Select Patents

US10,158,481 US10,268,232 US10,359,272 US10,608,663 US10,619,993 US10,740,693 US10,763,974 US10,768,659 US9,354,039 US16/411,391 US16/653,159 US16/671,726 US16/680,908 US16/810,573 US16/915,023 US16/986,383 US16/986,655