Darius Bunandar
Founder, Chief Scientist and board member · Lightmatter
At a glance. Darius Bunandar is listed as Founder, Chief Scientist and board member at Lightmatter. The profile sits among the builders and open-source contributors. Fields listed: Chips and hardware. The source lists 1 official page and open-role pages for Lightmatter.
Summary
Founder and Chief Scientist of Lightmatter; co-author of a 2025 Nature paper on photonic AI acceleration.
Known for: Universal photonic artificial intelligence acceleration.
Works at
- Lightmatter 2 people in the wiki
Open roles
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Source and corrections
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