PLENARY SPEAKERS

Antonio Acín is an ICREA Research Professor at ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences. He has a degree in Physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He got his PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2001 from the UB. After a post-doctoral stay in Geneva, he joined ICFO in 2003. At ICFO, Acín leads the Quantum Information Theory group. The group activities focus on quantum information theory and quantum communication, with an emphasis on quantum cryptography, but also cover other fields such as quantum optics, many-body physics, quantum thermodynamics, of the foundations of quantum physics. His research has been awarded with 4 grants from the European Research Council: 1 Starting, 1 Proof of Concept, 1 Consolidator and 1 Advanced Grant, the latter starting in 2020. He also received an AXA Chair in Quantum Information Science in 2016.

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Markus Aspelmeyer is Professor of Physics at the University of Vienna and Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. He studied physics and philosophy in Munich, Germany. After a PhD in solid state physics from LMU Munich he switched fields to quantum optics. Aspelmeyer is regarded one of the pioneers of the field of quantum optomechanics. His research combines the development of new quantum technologies with fundamental quantum experiments. He is co-founder of Crystalline Mirror Solutions (now Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions), which provides novel optics for laser precision measurements. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg. His current research is focused on the intriguing puzzles around quantum physics and gravity.

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Mete Atatüre is a Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and the Head of the Cavendish Laboratory. He completed his PhD at Boston University Quantum Imaging Laboratory on multi-parameter entanglement and then joined ETH Zurich as a postdoctoral fellow on quantum photonics. In 2007 he moved to Cambridge to start his research group. His research efforts straddle multiple material platforms to develop spin-photon interfaces for quantum networks and quantum sensing applications. His research has been awarded with 4 grants from the European Research Council: 1 Starting, 1 Proof of Concept, 1 Consolidator and 1 Advanced Grant, the latter starting in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Optical Society of America, Academia Europaea, and the Turkish Science Academy. He is also the recipient of the 2020 IoP Thomas Young Medal for his contributions to quantum optics.

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Stacey is a Senior Researcher at CWI since January 2017, where her main areas of interest are quantum algorithms and cryptographic protocols, and models of quantum computation. Before that, she was an IQIM Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) at Caltech. She received her PhD from the University of Waterloo in 2014, where she was affiliated with the Institute of Quantum Computing (IQC), supervised by Michele Mosca, and informally co-advised by Frédéric Magniez. She currently holds an ERC Starting Grant. She also was co-chair of the QIP 2022 program committee. With Julia Cramer, she co-founded WIQD (Women in Quantum Development), a professional network for women in all areas of quantum technology, for which they were awarded the first QDNL Award. She has served on the steering committees of QCrypt and TQC (and was chair in 2021). She is Chair of the Lorentz Center Informatics Advisory board and a CIFAR Fellow in the Quantum Information Science Program.

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Richard Kueng is (full) Professor for Computing Technologies at JKU Linz, Austria. He and his team pursue an interdisciplinary research agenda at the interface between computer science (algorithms & computational complexity), physics (quantum information & quantum technologies) and applied math (convex geometry & high dimensional probability theory). Together with Hsin-Yuan Huang and John Preskill (both at Caltech), Richard Kueng developed the classical shadow formalism – an efficient quantum-to-classical conversion procedure that has made a lasting impact on quantum computing technologies. In 2023, he received both a START award of the Austrian Science Fund and an ERC Starting Grant for the project q-shadows: scalable quantum-to-classical converters.

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Anthony Leverrier is a researcher at Inria Paris. He got his PhD from Telecom Paris in 2009. After postdoctoral stays at ICFO in Barcelona  and ETH Zurich in the groups of Antonio Acin and Renato Renner, he joined Inria in 2012. His previous research was mostly devoted to quantum communication and quantum cryptography, especially quantum key distribution with continuous variables. In the past 10 years, his research interests have shifted towards quantum error correction and in particular quantum LDPC codes and bosonic codes. He is currently coordinating a large research project from the French Quantum Initiative devoted to fault tolerance and quantum error correction.

Speech Title: Quantum Tanner codes

Maria leads the quantum machine learning research team at Xanadu, a Toronto-based quantum computing start-up. She co-authored a book as well as many papers on how quantum computers can be trained with data and is one of the original developers of the PennyLane software framework for quantum differentiable programming. Maria received her PhD degree in physics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in 2017, but also holds a postgraduate degree in political science and still spends some of her time understanding the use of machine learning tools for social sciences research.

Speech Title: The subtle art of benchmarking quantum machine learning models

Christine Silberhorn is a German physicist specialising in quantum photonics, she is spokesperson of the Institute for photonic quantum systems (PhoQS) and heads the Integrated Quantum Optics at Paderborn University. Silberhorn is best known for her role in leading research projects which develop tailored quantum devices and systems for use in quantum computing and quantum communication. In 2005, Silberhorn was a Max Planck Research Group Leader in Erlangen, heading the Junior Research Group Integrated Quantum Optics until 2008 until 2010, completing her habilitation in 2008. Her research work has been awarded several prizes; most prominently, she received the Gottfried Wilhelm-Leibniz Prize in 2011. She is elected member of the Leopoldina, of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts and Fellow of the Optical Society of America. In 2019 she became a fellow of the Max Planck School of Photonics.

Speech Title: Photonic quantum technologies: from integrated quantum devices to designing large complex system

Jelena Vuckovic is the Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics at Stanford, where she leads the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics Lab. She joined the Stanford Faculty in 2003, upon receiving her PhD degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2002. At Stanford, she also served as the Electrical Engineering Department Chair, and was the inaugural director of QFARM, the Stanford-SLAC Quantum Initiative. Vuckovic is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics. Her awards include the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Geoffrey Frew Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Sciences, the Mildred Dresselhaus Lecturer at MIT, the IET A. F. Harvey Engineering Research Prize, Distinguished Scholarship of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Studies at TU Munich, Humboldt Prize, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), of the Optica, and of the IEEE.

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Mikhail Lukin received his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University in 1998. He has been a Professor of Physics at Harvard since 2004, where he is currently the Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor and a co-director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative in Science and Engineering. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research is in the areas of quantum optics and quantum information science, aimed at controlling strongly interacting atomic, optical, and solid-state systems, studying the quantum dynamics of many-body systems, and exploring novel applications in quantum computing, simulations, quantum communication, and metrology. He has co-authored over 400 technical papers. His awards include the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, David and Lucile Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, NSF Career Award, Adolph Lomb Medal of the OSA, AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize, APS I.I.Rabi Prize, Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics,  Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, Charles Hard Towns Medal of the OSA and Norman F. Ramsey Prize of APS.

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