Dr. Sylvia Smullin is a physicist and the principal consultant of Figured Eight Consulting. With more than 15 years of early-stage R&D experience at startups and at storied innovation factories — Alphabet’s X and Xerox’s PARC — Dr. Smullin has experience from the lab bench to the executive suite.

Dr. Smullin brings creativity, competence, and common-sense to the culture and practice of: experimental learning, data strategy, exploratory data analysis, innovation, sensing and measurements, R&D.