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After earning his PhD at Yale and cutting his teeth on quantum hardware at IBM, Chad Rigetti founded and took public one of the few companies manufacturing its own superconducting quantum chips — in its own Fremont fab — while securing DoD and DoE contracts.
Chad Rigetti is the Founder and CEO of Sygaldry Technologies, his current venture, after founding Rigetti Computing in 2013 and leading it as one of the first publicly traded quantum computing companies.
He earned his PhD in applied physics at Yale and previously worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center on superconducting quantum hardware. His career has focused on advancing practical quantum computing systems.
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