Mehdi is the Chief Science Officer of Qunnect Inc. As a graduate student he co-founded Qunnect with the intent to transform his PhD work, the experimental demonstration of a room temperature Quantum networking platforms, into commercial products. He now leads the research agenda for the company’s product suite, a collection of instruments to enable scalable quantum networking. Prior to Qunnect, Mehdi was awarded the Yale Joint Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship and completed his PhD at Stony Brook University.