Pouya Dianat

Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi)

Pouya Dianat, Ph.D., is the chief revenue officer at Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi), bringing over 18 years of experience in the photonics industry, with a strong focus on the commercialization of photonic technologies. His expertise spans more than a decade in advancing photonic solutions, underpinned by eight years of graduate research in the field.

Prior to his current role, Dianat served as director of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and foundry services at QCi, where he led the commercialization of the company’s thin-film lithium niobate technology beginning in July 2024. From 2018 to 2021, he was chief technology officer at Nanograss Solar LLC, a company specializing in high-speed photodetectors. Between 2021 and 2022, he served as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Drexel University while working as a scientist at Princeton Infrared Technologies, which developed advanced infrared camera systems.

From March 2022 to July 2023, Dianat was a senior photonics engineer at Optogration, a Luminar Company, where he led business development, commercialization efforts, and scale-up of photonic detector chips for automotive LIDAR applications. Most recently, from 2023 to 2024, he was the market expert and director of PIC and quantum technologies at OPTICA, a leading global optics and photonics society.