Francisco Leport Email & Phone Number

South San Francisco, Ca, Us

Gordian uses gene therapy and single cell sequencing to run millions of cellular experiments directly in living animal models of complex, age-related disease. Our in vivo technology can screen thousands of genetic targets, including combinations, in a matter of months. Targets are screened in superior animal models, enabling clinical predictive power. We are using this technology to discover novel targets and develop therapeutics for complex, age-related disease.We are hiring!

Houston, Texas, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

*Technical co-founder and board member, critical to raising over $30M in two rounds led by Founders Fund, acquiring initial customer base, developing culture, growing team to 35+.*Founded research organization (spanning both hardware and algorithms). Directly responsible for vision, recruiting, hiring, and managing. *Discovered enormous oil field stimulation optimization opportunity, shaping technological vision and product. Wrote first algorithms to take advantage of this opportunity, then sold it to first dozen customers, generating tens of millions in value for them and millions in revenue to Tachyus.*Invented Data Physics, our proprietary synthesis of traditional PDE and physics based solvers with advanced data science techniques, leading expansion of our initial simulation and optimization algorithms and increasing TAM to $100B+.*Invented and led prototyping of novel sensor hardware.*My team produced 6 publications, and 9 hardware and software patents, 4 of which list me as an inventor.

Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mx

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Angel investorAdvisor to companies and funds ConsultantSpeakerBoard MemberBeing a Dad :)

Irvine, Ca, Us

LePort Schools is a company of nation wide montessori schools that my father founded in 2000.At LePort Schools, we help our students acquire the essential knowledge, thinking skills, and strength of character required to flourish as joyous children today, and as successful adults tomorrow. Our unique program emphasizes the relationship between the academically challenging material presented in the classroom, and the breadth of experiences children have in their lives outside of the classroom. With the wealth of knowledge they gain at LePort, students are able to understand and delight in both the wondrous world around them and their burgeoning personal identity within.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Bringing a highly versatile medical diagnostics device to the consumer market:*Developed organizational structure and led a team of 13 scientists and engineers*Led design and development of 2nd generation prototype device, including optical, mechanical, electrical, microfluidic, and software components*Developed algorithm for analysis of on-device-data which enabled mass manufacture*Wrote and ran monte-carlo simulations of device physics*2 patent applications filed

Austin, Texas, Us

Battery Safety and Technology Team. *Led testing and development of key cell and pack safety features which enabled cost efficiency and energy density of 85kWh Model S battery pack, reporting status directly to CEO Elon Musk.*Worked with world’s leading cell suppliers to develop novel cell mechanical and electro-chemical designs for Tesla’s unique energy and safety requirements.*Initial member of Telsa Gigafactory battery team, developed first prototype materials and parts.*Designed methods and executed cell, module, and pack level safety experiments with a focus on single cell thermal failures and module/pack level electrical failures.*Proposed and led prototyping of several design changes for Model S, RAV4, and other battery projects, including in-house designs and prototypes of several key commercial components*Directly managed a small team of technicians*12 patent applications filed

Stanford, Ca, Us

Enriched Xenon Observatory-200 experiment to measure the mass of the neutrino, advisor Prof. Giorgio Gratta. *On-site project manager at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico*Designed and fabricated and managed construction of detector components and infrastructure*Designed fabricated ran a prototype ionization detector constructed from a novel material*Invented designed engineered fabricated and tested an ultra-clean magnetic gaseous xenon pump*Designed and wrote data acquisition software package*Researched detector materials*Wrote monte-carlo simulations*12 publications in leading scientific journals and three invited lectures.

Irvine, Ca, Us

2001 - 2003: K2K neutrino oscillation experiment, advisor Prof. Henry Sobel. *Worked on-site at KEK Laboratory, Ibaraki prefecture, Japan and Super-Kamiokande at the Kamioka Observatory, Gifu prefecture, Japan. *Collected and analyzed calibration data for the One Kilo-Ton Water Cherenkov Detector*Constructed scintillation counters, setup hardware and software trigger logic, wrote monte-carlo simulations, programmed in FORTRAN, C++, and Mathematica.2000 - 2001: Advisor Prof. Roger McWilliams. Worked in a plasma lab, designed and constructed vacuum systems.

Ph.D, Physics

B.S., Physics