Heike Riel: Quantum Computing - The Path to Quantam Advantage
Despite the continued advances of digital computing including accelerators for artificial intelligence, there are still many important and relevant mathematical problems that are intractable to classical computers. Quantum Computers are a radically different approach and open a new trajectory to evolve computation and enable solving difficult and complex problems. In the past years significant progress has been made toward understanding the scope of quantum computing, pushing its hardware and software technology, developing applications, and advancing error mitigation/correction protocols. An entire new computing system is built from the bottom up.
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Advancing the state-of-the-art as quickly as possible requires pursuing in parallel improvements in scale, quality, and speed of quantum systems, as well as simultaneously providing advanced capabilities to exploit the performance and make them easy to use. After a brief introduction I will present the recent developments highlights and prospects of quantum computing.
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Heike Riel
Dr. Heike Riel is IBM Fellow, Head of Science of Quantum and Information Technologies (SQIT) and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe & Africa.
She leads the Science of Quantum & InformationTechnologies department aiming to create scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing and Technologies, Physics of Artificial Intelligence, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and to explore new directions to computing. She received the master’s in physics from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the PhD in physics from University of Bayreuth and an MBA from Henley Business College. She has authored more than 155 peer-reviewed publications and filed more than 50 patents.
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