Keynote Speakers

Dr. Samuel Yen-Chi Chen received the Ph.D. and B.S. degree in physics and the M.D. degree in medicine from National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan. He is now a senior research scientist at Wells Fargo Bank. Prior to that, he was an assistant computational scientist in the Computational Science Initiative, Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is the first one to use variational quantum circuits to perform deep reinforcement learning and the inventor of quantum LSTM. His research interests include building quantum machine learning algorithms as well as applying classical machine learning techniques to solve quantum computing challenges such as quantum error correction and quantum architecture search. He is involved in multiple advanced privacy-preserving quantum AI research project and is an experienced distributed computing researcher and developer. He won the First Prize In the Software Competition (Research Category) from Xanadu Quantum Technologies, in 2019.