Sean Sullivan
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Sean Sullivan
memQ, Co-Founder & CTO
About the Speaker
Sean Sullivan is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of memQ Inc., a spin-out from the University of Chicago that is developing hardware for quantum networks. memQ, headquartered in Chicago, was a member of the second Duality cohort and Argonne National Laboratory’s Chain Reaction Innovations program. Sean previously held the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory from August 2019 to September 2022, winning the Postdoctoral Performance Award in Applied Engineering Research for his work on building the Chicago metropolitan-scale quantum communication testbed and developing new telecom-compatible qubit devices. Sean holds a PhD in Materials Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, as well as MS and BS degrees in Materials Engineering from Purdue University.
