The Speakers
William D Oliver (MIT, Massachusetts, USA)
Prof. Oliver’s research spans the materials growth, fabrication and 3D integration, design, control, and measurement of superconducting qubits and their use in small scale quantum processors. He also develops cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) and single-flux quantum digital logic.
Peter A. Spring (RIKEN, Wakoshi, Japan)
Dr. Spring is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at RIKEN. He is working with Prof. Yasunobu Nakamura on superconducting circuits for quantum computation. During Ph.D. he worked on Developing a Tileable Superconducting Circuit for Quantum Computation.
Ryoji Miyazaki (NEC, Tsukuba, Japan)
Dr. Miyazaki is researching quantum annealing from a theoretical perspective, utilizing his knowledge of statistical mechanics and informatics, at System Platform Research Laboratories under NEC, Japan.
R. Vijayaraghavan (TIFR, Mumbai, India)
Prof. Vijay has been the Principal Investigator of the Quantum Measurement and Control Laboratory at TIFR where the main goal is to develop superior quantum processors and techniques to stabilize quantum states against decoherence. Some key highlights of his group's work include development of a broadband ultralow noise amplifier for quantum measurements and a novel multi-qubit processor design.
Mikko Möttönen (Aalto University, Aalto, Finland)
Prof. Mikko leads the Quantum Computing and Devices (QCD) group at the QTF Centre of Excellence, Aalto University. He is an Associate Professor (tenured) of Quantum Technology shared between Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and a Co-Founder of the quantum-computer company IQM. He is most focused on superconducting electric circuits which he has used to demonstrate the most sensitive bolometer and a quantum-circuit refrigerator. The refrigerator can potentially be used to demonstrate efficient initialization of superconducting qubits.
Pol Forn-Díaz (IFAE & Qilimanjaro, Barcelona, Spain)
Dr. Forn-Díaz's research interests include superconducting quantum circuits, Quantum Annealing, Quantum optics, ultrastrong coupling regime. Since 2019, Dr. Forn-Díaz is a tenure track researcher at IFAE where he leads the Quantum Computing Technology group. He is currently scientific advisor of the Barcelona-based consultancy Entanglement Partners SL. He is also co-founder of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech, S. L.
Artur García-Sáez (BSC-CNS & Qilimanjaro, Barcelona, Spain)
Dr. García-Sáez is a physicist and engineer and works at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. His research centers between quantum algorithms and machine learning. Previously, he has done research on quantum information and condensed matter. He is also Co-founder and Chief Software Architect of Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech.
Abhinav Kandala (IBM - T.J.W. Research Center, New York, USA)
Dr. Abhinav Kandala is an experimental physicist in the quantum computing group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where his research has focused on the coherence and control of superconducting qubits, multi-qubit device characterization, and applications of near-term quantum computers.
Ana Palacios (Qilimanjaro, Barcelona, Spain)
Ms. Ana is developing techniques to aid in the process of adiabatic quantum computation, as well as new encodings of problems within the framework of annealing that make explicit use of entanglement. She is also studying the use of a superconducting qubit network as a quantum reservoir computer to filter out noise, and her interest in the interface between condensed matter and quantum computation has her trying to understand one through the lens of the other.
Kalyan K Dasgupta (IBM - India Research Lab, Bangalore, India)
Dr. Dasgupta joined IBM Research, Bangalore, right after his PhD from IIT Bombay in 2014 and has been there since. He has worked on a diverse set of fields at IBM. He has been with IBM Quantum for the last two and a half years and has been looking at applications that can provide Quantum advantage, for eaxmple, Algorithms for Near-term Quantum computers.
Stefan Filipp (TU Munich, Germany)
Prof. Stefan Filipp holds a position as Full Professor (Chair) in Physics at the TU Munich and as Director of the Walther-Meißner-Institute. Earlier, he had been working at IBM Research where he joined in 2014 at the Watson Research Center in New York, to work on superconducting circuit quantum computing. In 2015, he moved to the IBM Research – Zurich Laboratory and became technical leader of the superconducting qubit team focusing on quantum information processing with superconducting circuits.
Ng Hui Khoon (CQT & Yale-NUS, Singapore)
Prof. Hui Khoon Ng joined, as an Assistant Professor, the newly founded Yale-NUS College in Singapore in 2013. She has maintained a joint position in CQT, becoming a CQT Fellow in 2019. Her research focuses on theoretical aspects of quantum computation, particularly on noise control, quantum error correction, and fault tolerance. Another productive area of research is in quantum tomography, and lately, noise tomography, drawing on both areas of her expertise. She is currently leading the quantum information and computation efforts within MajuLab, a French CNRS lab situated in Singapore.
Vibhor Singh (IISc, Bangalore, India)
Focus of Dr. Singh's group is on superconducting device based emerging quantum technology. Currently, he is involved in a variety of research activities, such as cavity-opto-mechanics in microwave domain, superconducting materials for quantum devices, circuit-QED systems, superconducting qubit based hybrid optomechanical systems.
Srinivasa Prasannaa V. (CQuERE, TCG CREST, Kolkata, India)
Dr. Prasannaa is currently an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Quantum Engineering, Research and Education, Kolkata, India. His research interests are quantum computing and quantum simulation for atomic and molecular calculations, quantum many-body theory applied to probing fundamental physics and ultracold physics, and high-performance computing.