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Aritra Sarkar

Aritra Sarkar is a postdoctoral researcher within the Quantum Machine Learning research group at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.  The group is jointly affiliated with the Quantum Computing Division at QuTech.  He completed his Master of Science (M.Sc), in Computer Engineering, from the Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, in 2018 and then joined the Department of Quantum & Computer Engineering, for doctoral research on quantum algorithms. His research explored the synergy between quantum computation and algorithmic information, for causal modeling within artificial general intelligence and genomics.  His current research involves automation in quantum programming and compilation.

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Sebastian Feld

Sebastian Feld is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He is part of the Quantum & Computer Engineering department, where he and his group are working on Quantum Machine Learning. The overall goal is to investigate how quantum technology might help creating near-term quantum applications, but also how machine learning techniques may assist with developing scalable quantum devices. Before, he was head of Quantum Applications and Research Laboratory (QAR-Lab) at LMU Munich.

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Thomas Gabor

Thomas Gabor is a postdoc at LMU Munich, where he is co-lead of the Quantum Applications and Research Laboratory (QAR-Lab) and co-founder of quantum software company Aqarios GmbH. He participates in a multitude of research projects focused on making quantum software useful and accessible. Coming from a background in metaheuristic and evolutionary optimization, one of his main interests lies in the conception of new hybrid optimization algorithms, but he is also concerned with software engineering aspects of quantum software and how to come up with languages or approaches that enable a creative development of quantum algorithms.