Sasha Haco

Sasha Haco is an English theoretical physicist, entrepreneur and chief executive officer of Unitary, an online content moderation company.

Education

Haco received her PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2019. During her time at Cambridge, she worked with Stephen Hawking, Malcolm Perry and Andrew Strominger on the black hole information paradox. She spent a year as a visiting fellow at Cambridge from 2017 to 2018 and also spent a year at Harvard. In 2020, Haco was heavily featured in the Netflix documentary Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, which chronicled the use of the Event Horizon Telescope to take the first photograph of a black hole, as well as the work of Haco, Hawking, Perry and Strominger as they attempted to better understand the black hole information paradox.

Career

Haco founded Ditto Software in 2018 and most recently co-founded Unitary, where she currently serves as the chief executive officer. Unitary works to develop tools to identify and moderate abusive online content. In 2021, Haco was honoured with the Women in Innovation award recognizing her efforts addressing challenges in society.