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Executive Vice President
Co-Founder


William J. Thompson, Ph.D. is Executive Vice President and Co-founder of Circadiant, where he is responsible for operations, engineering and quality assurance. Prior to co-founding Circadiant, Dr. Thompson was credited as lead designer for both the Lucent OC192 (10Gb/s) optical receiver project and the company’s only DWDM optical receiver product. Previously, Dr. Thompson spent 10 years at various universities and national laboratories establishing highly automated precision measurement techniques and data analysis algorithms. Dr. Thompson holds a Ph.D. in physics from Stony Brook, New York and has published several papers and patents in optics and physical processes.