Galen Marchetti

Galen Marchetti is a Co-Founder & CEO of Kurtosis Technologies since 2020. Prior to that, they were a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir Technologies from 2015 to 2020. From 2014 to 2015, they were a Student Researcher at Cornell University, where they worked on developing a novel anti-reflective coating for the polarization-sensitive Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACTPOL) and constraining the initial scalar perturbation to tensor perturbation ratio of the cosmic microwave background and detecting B-mode polarization from the CMB signal. Galen was also a CS 3110 Functional Programming Teaching Assistant and a Student Researcher, where they investigated the dynamic immune response in the brains of mice upon electrode insertion using in-vivo two-photon microscopy and histological studies. In 2013, they were a Summer Research Intern at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where they used Monte Carlo simulations of large experimental data sets in order to design powerful analysis strategies.

Galen Marchetti attended Cornell University from 2011 to 2015, where they earned a Bachelor's degree in Physics and Computer Science.