Organizing Team

Aritra Sarkar

Aritra Sarkar is a senior researcher at Fujitsu Research, India. He was a postdoctoral researcher within QuTech's Quantum Machine Learning research group at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.  His master's and doctorate at TU Delft's Department of Quantum & Computer Engineering focused on the synergy between algorithmic information theory and quantum computer architecture. His current research involves automation in quantum programming and compilation.

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.

Akash Kundu

Akash Kundu is a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, jointly affiliated with Quantum computing division at QuTech. His primary research interest lies in the intersection of reinforcement learning and quantum physics. Currently, he is exploring quantum hardware-aware automated optimization and transfer learning. He received his doctoral degree from Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland where his thesis involved quantum architecture search with reinforcement learning.