November 2022 NEOQC Meetup

Join the Northeast Ohio Quantum Computing group for our final regional meetup of the year, Tuesday, November 15 at 6pm. This virtual meeting we will explore a range of work being done by industry and academic leaders to advance quantum computers today.

Speakers from Microsoft, QCI, and Kent State University
Microsoft: "Azure Quantum and the Road to Scalable Quantum Computing"
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computing/

Dr. Wim van Dam
Dr. Wim van Dam is a Principal Researcher at the Quantum Systems group at Microsoft. His research focuses on quantum computation and quantum communication and his main interest is the development of new quantum algorithms that give a significant speed-up when compared with traditional, classical algorithms. Before joining Microsoft, Dr. van Dam was Head Quantum Algorithms at QC Ware and a professor at the departments of computer science and physics at UC Santa Barbara. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Oxford (UK) his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). He was a postdoc at UC Berkeley, HP Labs Palo Alto, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, and MIT.​

Quantum Computing, Inc. (QCi): "EQC vs NISQ: How Entropy Quantum Computers are Solving Optimization"
https://www.quantumcomputinginc.com/

Wesley (Wes) Dyk
Wes hails from Colorado and serves as QCi’s lead technical advisor driving client facing projects in the domain of quantum computing. He holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Colorado Denver in Applied Mathematics with a concentration on Operations Research. Wes has a long history of implementing business intelligence solutions with a data-driven approach to critical decision making and offers a unique technical and business acumen. Having served as a business owner and consultant across many industries and as an employee within a large organization, he is passionate about bridging the gap between technical and business stakeholders and in driving results for both.

Dr. Catherine Potts
Dr. Catherine Potts is a part of the QCi Quantum Intelligence team and will presenting a stock price prediction use case using quantum machine learning.

Kent State University: "Noise-Aware Quantum Machine Recommendation System"

Dr. Qiang Guan
Dr. Qiang Guan is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Dr. Guan is the director of the Green Ubiquitous Autonomous Networking System lab (http://www.guans.cs.kent.edu/). He is also a member of the Brain Health Research Institute (BHRI) at Kent State University. He was a computer scientist in Data Science at Scale team at Los Alamos National Laboratory before joining KSU. His current research interests include fault tolerance design for HPC applications; HPC-Cloud hybrid systems; virtual reality; quantum computing systems and applications.

Questions about Quantum?
Join the community at Northeast Ohio Quantum Computing Meetup Group.
Discussions are also available on the Cleveland Tech slack channel.
Want to present to the community? Contact either Austin H. or Joe C. through Meetup Messenger.