Dustin Thornton
Founder, CEO & Principal Investigator
Industrial metrology and heavy-systems engineering. Built QAC, QAKD, QLX, and COHOS; evidence-bound, fail-safe systems engineering.
Quietly building something foundational.
QuantumCore is an early-stage deep-tech team working on the coherence layer for compute and energy. Modest about claims; serious about the evidence behind them.
Help the systems the world already depends on do more with the power they already have.
Demand for compute and energy is rising faster than our ability to supply it cleanly. A meaningful share of that gap isn’t a supply problem. It’s a coordination problem. Physics-first compute, on the hardware people already own, is a quieter path than building the next big model. We think it matters more.
Why it matters
The infrastructure the world runs on deserves better foresight.
Power systems, energy storage, and the compute behind modern AI are scaling faster than the tools that keep them efficient and reliable. We work on the layer in between — quietly, with public benchmarks where we can, and NDA diligence where we must.
What we value
How we operate.
Team
Who’s building it.
Operators from industrial engineering and energy systems, with depth in physics, machine learning, hardware, and energy — plus advisors in finance and IP.
Jack O’Brien
Co-Founder & President
MS in Energy with a data-science concentration; PMP-certified, IEEE member. Source of the energy-systems stack (including MHO); leads research, product, operations, and partnerships.
Pranay Pandey
Physics & ML Researcher
Physicist and ML researcher (IIT Kharagpur; QIntern 2025 global 2nd). Builds physics-first models, public-benchmark validation, and reproducible evaluation pipelines.
Sai Charan
ASIC & Hardware Systems Engineer
Hardware engineer with Senior ASIC Verification experience at NVIDIA; BITS Pilani EE and Biological Sciences. Focuses on edge deployment, efficiency validation, and FPGA/firmware paths.
Jiwan Mallik
Energy Systems & Policy Advisor
Senior Energy Consultant at the World Bank; IIT Delhi and Harvard Kennedy School MPA. Advises energy go-to-market, utility buyers, and policy context for our stack.
Gregory Robustelli
Strategic Advisor, Finance & Fundraising
Commercial Credit Analyst at Ives Bank; MBA Finance/Marketing, University of Connecticut. Brings modeling discipline, fundraising rigor, and capital-markets counsel.
Brandon Barney
IP Strategy & Legal Advisor
Managing Partner at Medical Device Patent Partners, with an ex-USPTO examiner network. Advises patent roadmap, prosecution strategy, and freedom-to-operate.