Dr. Nadia Carlsten is Vice President of Product at SandboxAQ, where she is responsible for product development across the company’s quantum security, quantum sensing, and simulation & optimization efforts. Nadia has extensive experience turning emerging technologies into products. Previously she was Head of Product at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing, where she helped define the strategy for quantum hardware and helped launch Amazon Braket, AWS’s quantum computing service.

Nadia has also led commercialization activities at the US Department of Homeland Security and successfully brought new technologies to market in the areas of cybersecurity and machine learning.

Nadia has a PhD in engineering from UC Berkeley.