Jeff Shainline received a PhD in physics in 2010 from Brown University for his work on integrated photonics. From 2010-2013 Jeff was a postdoc with a team from CU Boulder, MIT, and Berkeley that demonstrated the world’s first optical communication link between a microprocessor and random-access memory. From there, Jeff joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado where he combined integrated photonics with superconducting electronics to realize new computational architectures. Jeff was at NIST for over a decade, during which time he and his team de-risked this new computational platform. In October of 2024, Jeff left NIST to start a company, called Great Sky. The mission of Great Sky is to achieve the physical and technological limits of intelligence to enable systems that help individuals, organizations, governments, and society think through our most challenging problems.
