Kristine Boone, PhD, works with the outreach and technical teams at Photonic Inc. Prior to the recent move, she was a Business Development Representative for Quantum Engineering Solutions at Keysight Technologies. Dr. Boone started her industry career as a researcher at the quantum computing start-up Quantum Benchmark Inc. (acquired in 2021 by Keysight) and obtained her PhD from the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). Her research focused on the characterization of quantum computers, in particular on developing protocols to diagnose error ubiquitously present in quantum computations.