Davide Venturelli leads the Frontier Technology investments at Green Sands. He is also currently Associate Director for Quantum Technology of the Research Institute of Advanced Computer Science at the Universities Space Research Association (USRA). In 2022 he was nominated Fellow, the highest technical recognition of the organization. He has co-founded in 2012 the NASA Quantum AI Laboratory (QuAIL) and worked there as senior scientist under the NASA Academic Mission Service, invested in research projects dealing with quantum applications and their implementation in a hardware-software co-design approach. He has authored more than 80 publications and 9 patents on the subject of AI, Theoretical Physics, Quantum Computing, and Robotics. He teaches Quantum Integer Programming as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Tepper's School of Business. He has experience winning, managing, and leading multi-million dollar R&D projects as Principal Investigator or co-PI, sponsored by DARPA, NSF, and DOE. He is the co-lead of the Applications task of the National Quantum Initiative Superconducting Quantum Materials and System (SQMS) Center at Fermi National Laboratory. In 2021 he was elected member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) steering committee, the organism coordinating 100+ companies involved in building the supply chain for the emergent quantum technology industry.

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Before moving to Silicon Valley in 2012, he obtained his Ph.D. at the International School for Advanced Scientific Studies (SISSA) in Trieste and the University of Grenoble and worked as a postdoc at the Normale School in Pisa.