Speakers

Jamie Thomas has a history of setting innovation agendas that provide business solutions to
clients worldwide. She has extensive organizational experience with R&D and client
support transformation. She currently serves as General Manager, IBM Technology Lifecycle Services and IBM Enterprise Security.

In this role, Jamie oversees IBM Technology Lifecycle Services including the delivery of client
support and services, providing clients with predictive, preventative, and technical support
solutions focused on IBM Logo as well as multi-vendor infrastructure support. Jamie’s team
partners with worldwide, leading technology providers to provide exceptional compute, storage
and networking capability. She serves all of IBM as leader of the IBM Enterprise Security team,
which protects IBM and IBM’s clients in an ever-changing and challenging cybersecurity
environment by driving security and privacy by design into all of IBM’s offerings and providing
industry regulatory and compliance leadership. Jamie serves as the board chair for the Open
Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), focused on addressing hardware and software open-
source supply chain security.

Prior to her current position, Jamie was the General Manager for IBM Systems Development,
Delivery, and IBM Enterprise Security. She headed IBM Z and Power development providing
solutions for clients focused on hybrid cloud and AI across multiple industries. She was part of
IBM’s Quantum computing startup efforts. In this capacity, she worked with industry and
academic partners via the IBM Quantum Network to explore and identify opportunities to apply
quantum technologies to a variety of commercial industry problems. Jamie also led IBM’s
award-winning worldwide supply chain and manufacturing operations.

During her more than 30-year career as a technical leader and executive, Jamie has held numerous development roles in IBM software spanning technologies including cloud, systems
management, software development lifecycle, transactional systems, and networking.
An alumna of the computer science program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Jamie
gives back to her alma mater as a member of the External Advisory Council for the university.
She also serves as the Board of Trustees Chair for Wake Technical Community College in
Raleigh, NC and is passionate about advancing career opportunities for under-represented
communities, with a particular focus on Women in Technology and Diversity in Technology.

Investment in quantum computing is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. In 2023, we demonstrated quantum utility. Quantum computers are now better at quantum computing than classical computers. That means we can use them today to explore applications with business value for our users. Our newly extended roadmap shows how IBM aim to make quantum computers more useful in the coming years, as we work toward quantum-centric supercomputing.

Rob Moore is the Director for the Interconnected Science Ecosystem Initiative at ORNL, which aims to develop a scalable ecosystem for interdisciplinary “self-driving” processes. His scientific focus is on the synthesis and in situ investigation of electronic structures of quantum thin films and heterostructures for quantum information science applications.

Rob received a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1994, then served in the United States Navy as a Submarine Officer. He received a master’s degree in physics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2002 and a doctorate in physis from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2006. He joined SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in 2006 as a postdoc, then became a Staff Scientist and Assistant Director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences. He joined ORNL as a strategic hire in 2019.  

The Quantum Science Center, led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, focuses on exploring and developing materials for quantum computing and sensing, with a special emphasis on topological materials. This talk will detail our efforts to utilize non-abelian anyons for quantum information science, specifically from a materials science perspective. We will discuss the development of hybrid systems and proximity-induced topological superconductivity, as well as spin-liquid platforms that are theoretically predicted to host Majorana modes, which are key to advancing topological quantum technologies. Our approach involves a co-design process that aims to bridge the gap between the quantum properties of materials and their functionality in devices. This process is crucial because demonstrating the non-abelian nature of Majorana modes requires their fusion and braiding within device structures. Key challenges we face include optimizing materials, controlling defects, and fabricating devices without losing the desired quantum properties, especially with materials that are incompatible with traditional nanofabrication techniques. We will present new strategies in this co-design framework, covering synthesis, characterization, and fabrication of novel quantum materials. These strategies are designed to enable the realization of advanced quantum computing and sensing devices, highlighting both the progress and the hurdles in this rapidly evolving field.

Jungsang Kim received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Seoul National University in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University in 1999, working on the topic of generation and detection of single photons. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1999, where he spent five years commercializing novel technologies out of Bell Labs to build new products in optical and wireless communication systems. He joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Duke University in 2004, where he has been working on trapped ion quantum computing and quantum networking, high pixel-count imaging systems, and novel quantum device research. In 2015, he co-founded IonQ, focusing on commercial development of ion trap based quantum computer, where he served as a Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Technology Officer until March 2024. He is a fellow of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America), the American Physical Society, and the National Academy of Inventors.

The hyperfine qubits in trapped atomic ions represent an ideal physical platform to store and manipulate qubits. I will discuss the advantages of this system for building practical quantum computers based on the basic physical principles, and recent technological developments that enabled construction of reliable quantum computing system capable of commercial deployment. I will share some examples of quantum algorithms and applications development based on these systems, that could lead to practical applications of quantum computers in the near term. I will conclude by discussing future prospect of reaching quantum advantage on computational or simulation tasks using trapped ion systems.

Brandon Musarra
Program Administrator
Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic

Dr. Osama M. Raisuddin
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Talk Title: Quantum Computing at Rensselaer
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osama-raisuddin/

Arsalaan Khan
NCSU Quantum Computing Club
Website: https://quantuminformationclub.wordpress.ncsu.edu/

Edward H. Chen
IBM Quantum
Talk Title: Quantum phase transitions and long-range entanglement using dynamic circuits
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ehchen

Mohammadhossein Mohammadisiahroudi
Quantum Computing and Optimization Lab, Lehigh University, PA, USA
Website: https://www.mohammad-mhms.com/

Idalia Friedson
Chief Strategy Officer, Strangeworks
Talk Title: Practical Applications for Quantum Computing Today
Website: strangeworks.com

Phil Emer
MCNC
Talk Title: NC Quantum Networking Testbed

Yuan Liu
NC State University
Talk Title: Toward Mixed Analog-Digital Quantum Signal Processing
Website: http://yuanliu.group

Melike Biliroglu
Department of Physics, NC State University
Talk Title: Room Temperature Superfluorescence In Hybrid Perovskites

Dr. Jonathan J. Wierer, Jr.
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
NC State University
Email: jjwierer@ncsu.edu
Website: http://jwierer.com

Kelvin Dsouza
Postdoctoral Researcher
NC State University
Talk Title: Gate defined hole spin qubits in SiGe and GeSn quantum dots

Frank Fu
University of South Carolina
Website: https://cse.sc.edu/~pfu/
Talk Title: Reverse, control and with-computed in Proto-Quipper.

Rabins Wosti
Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of South Carolina
Talk Title: Implementing the quantum fanout operation with simple pairwise interactions
arXiv link for the full manuscript: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.01141
A part of the arXiv manusript has been published, and here’s the link:
https://www.rintonpress.com/xxqic23/qic-23-1314/1081-1090.pdf

Dror Baron
NC State University
Talk Title: Qubit-Wise Majority Vote: Maximum Likelihood Quantum Error Mitigation for Algorithms with a Single Correct Output

Hrushikesh Pramod Patil
NC State University
Talk Title: Qubit-Wise Majority Vote: Maximum Likelihood Quantum Error Mitigation for Algorithms with a Single Correct Output

Srikar Chundury
NC State University
Talk Title: DiaQ: Efficient State-Vector Quantum Simulation

Wladimir Silva
NC State University
Talk Title: Qontrast: Contrast Filters Mitigate Quantum Noise

Peiyi Li
NC State University
Talk Title: QuTracer: Mitigating Quantum Gate and Measurement Errors by Tracing Subsets of
Qubits