Dana Anderson
Anderson is a physicist and JILA Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he collaborated with Nobel laureates Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell on Bose-Einstein Condensate research in the 1990s. His group at JILA pioneered the use of ultracold atoms for quantum sensing and computing. He founded ColdQuanta in 2007 — later rebranded as Infleqtion — to commercialize atomic quantum technologies spanning quantum computing, sensing, and networking. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to optical quantum engineering of ultracold atoms.