John Leffingwell is Quidient’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He has deep expertise in the real-world physics and algorithms of 3D shape-from-polarization, as well as experience developing an early-stage technology business with worldwide reach. He has spent the past 15-years innovating in computational geometry, including 3 years at Photon-X, Inc., bringing shape-from-polarization technology into more general operating environments.

Early in his career, John co-founded InterGrafx, Inc., which grew to 70 people in California and Asia, to bring interactive true-3D capabilities to commodity mobile phones from the 1990’s era. John earned his bachelor’s degree in CS/EE with a minor in physics from MIT.