Who We Are
We are an early stage deeptech startup with roots in MIT, Harvard, University of Maryland, and University of Arizona.
Our Headquarters are in Boston, with lab spaces in College Park, Maryland.
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Johannes Galatsanos
CO-FOUNDER, CEO
Johannes has spent 15 years in the Data, AI, Quantum Tech, and Intrapreneurship space. Prior to Diffraqtion, he was an Executive Director at Novartis, heading the largest Data & AI transformation in the industry. He was also a researcher at MIT and the Center for Quantum Networks, a lecturer in AI, and a managing consultant at a Big Four.
He’s an MIT Sloan Fellows MBA, Oxford, and Uni Frankfurt graduate with a focus on AI, Quantum Technologies and entrepreneurship for deeptech commercialization.
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Dr. Christine Yi-Ting Wang
CO-FOUNDER, CTO
Christine has more than 20 years of R&D experience in the field of optics and photonics, especially quantum electronics, imaging systems and photonic integrated circuits. Prior to Diffraqtion, she was the Director of Optics and Photonics at Riverside Research, and prior to that a Principal Scientist at The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory.
She received her Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University, and was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and EPFL in Lausanne.
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Prof. Saikat Guha
CO-FOUNDER, CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR
Saikat is the Clark Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland and Director of the NSF Center for Quantum Networks. Saikat has over 10,000 citations and more than a hundred published papers and patents, with a focus on Quantum Sensing and Optical Neural Networks.
He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he is also an adjunct faculty member.