
Sanket Deshpande
Co-founder and CEO of Dirac Labs, building quantum sensing and AI-based navigation systems that operate without GPS
1
APPEARANCES
1
PODCASTS
012
DEC 30
JAN 6
JAN 13
JAN 20
JAN 27
FEB 3
FEB 10
FEB 17
FEB 24
MAR 3
MAR 10
MAR 17
MAR 24
MAR 31
APR 7
APR 14
APR 21
APR 28
MAY 5
MAY 12
MAY 19
MAY 26
JUN 2
JUN 9
JUN 16
JUN 23
JUN 30
JUL 7
JUL 14
JUL 21
JUL 28
AUG 4
AUG 11
AUG 18
AUG 25
SEP 1
SEP 8
SEP 15
SEP 22
SEP 29
OCT 6
OCT 13
OCT 20
OCT 27
NOV 3
NOV 10
NOV 17
NOV 24
DEC 1
DEC 8
DEC 15
DEC 22
DEC 29
JAN 5
JAN 12
JAN 19
JAN 26
FEB 2
FEB 9
FEB 16
FEB 23
MAR 2
MAR 9
MAR 16
MAR 23
MAR 30
APR 6
APR 13
APR 20
APR 27
MAY 4
MAY 11
MAY 18
MAY 25
JUN 1
JUN 8
JUN 15
JUN 22
JUN 29
JUL 6
JUL 13
JUL 20
JUL 27
AUG 3
AUG 10
AUG 17
AUG 24
AUG 31
SEP 7
SEP 14
SEP 21
SEP 28
OCT 5
OCT 12
Aug 5, 2026
Quantum Navigation Takes to the Skies – with Sanket Deshpande and Ashwarya Das of Dirac Labs
16:48
17:12
17:36
16:36
So what have been the toughest operational engineering constraints in ruggedizing and miniaturizing these sensors to run in all sorts of conditions?

Sanket DeshpandeGUEST
big guiding principle, right? Like, okay, you wanna reduce the swap, swap C, you know, swap plus cost, right? So reduce the swap C, ruggedize the sensor, and then make sure you can put it in more number of platforms than ever before, right? To do that, you don't want to reinvent engineering, you don't reinvent infrastructure.

Sanket DeshpandeGUEST
So the specific technology platform we chose is this kind of like a solid state sensor, right? So these solid state defects inside a diamond crystal that's artificially grown in a lab, which means that at scale, we can produce these sensors in a TSMC or Intel kind of a foundry.

Sanket DeshpandeGUEST
It gives us advantage of cost following the same unit economics of your microchips, right? And then also because now you are at a nanometer scale, that brings down your overall device size significantly smaller.
7 MINS LATER
24:50
So when it comes to the Midwest quantum corridor, how's that helping a startup of your scale compete against like the giants? Is it really helping you in a way like a quantum Silicon Valley? Is there a talent pipeline there for you guys?
