Dr. Michael LaGasse, Vice President, Engineering

Dr. LaGasse joined MagiQ in January 2003, and is responsible for the overall engineering, design and manufacturing of MagiQ QPN, MagiQ’s QKD product. He brings 20 years experience in advanced optical and electronic technologies to the challenges of commercializing QIP.

Prior to joining MagiQ, Dr. LaGasse was Director of Optical Hardware at PhotonEx, where he led the team responsible for developing the first production 40Gb/sec transmitters and receivers. He started his career at Boeing's High Technology Center as an Associate Technical Fellow working on various advanced optical and electronic hardware including intersatellite laser communications and optical MEMS switches.

Dr. LaGasse has published more than 40 advanced optics, networking and telecommunications papers, and holds more than 25 patents – awarded and pending – on inventions ranging from optical carrier filtering to time-domain-reflectometry.

Dr. LaGasse holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from MIT.