Webinar on Innovations in Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing

Rachele Cocks is a Principal Investigator for quantum sensing research and development in the Space and Airborne Systems division of L3Harris Technologies. Rachele leads a group of scientists who develop quantum technologies, design space-based sensing systems, and hold expertise in detector physics. Prior to joining L3Harris Technologies, Rachele held various research and development roles in industry. Rachele is a prolific inventor having over 30 patents including, most recently awarded “On-orbit calibration system and associated control”. Rachele holds a Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago; a Masters of Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; an MBA from Indiana University; a Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics from Purdue University; Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Purdue University and is currently completing her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State and Masters in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona

Mr. Lukáš Sobek was born in 1982 in North Moravia Region, Czech Republic. In 2008 he graduated from Applied Nuclear Chemistry at the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. After obtaining his degree in Nuclear Engineering he continued with Post-gradual studies at the Czech Academy of Sciences at the Jaroslav Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry in Prague in the field of Theoretical Chemistry. He is also a member of the Czech Mathematical and Physical Union

Feruz Ganikhanov is an Associate Professor with the Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA. Dr. Ganikhanov has obtained his BS, MS and PhD degrees, all in physics, from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. He pursues research projects within broad areas of quantum electronics, nonlinear and ultrafast optics and spectroscopy, multiphoton imaging and tunable lasers. Dr. Ganikhanov has been a recipient of number of research awards from the US funding agencies such as NSF, DoD, NIH. He teaches number of undergraduate and graduate courses in physics at the University of Rhode Island and advises several PhD students.

Sanjay has over 26 years of industry experience in information technology, globally. Sanjay is an Enterprise Architect with specialization around HPC, artificial intelligence and machine learning for cybersecurity. He is involved in designing and launching Private / Public Cloud initiatives since 2007 while working for Dell. He spent few years in EMC2 building the private cloud accelerator offering as the CTO for their managed hybrid cloud services before joining AWS where he was a Principal Security Consultant in their professional services organizations. He has also delved into building security solutions like anomaly detection using Deep Learning nad Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) while in EMC2 and AWS. Currently he is working in Product Management for Oracle Generation 2 Bare Metal Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service. His area of depth or speciality is distributes AI/ML/DL services on distributed GPU systems. His interests include Blockchain and distributed computation along with quantum computing and encryption. He has post graduate certificates from MIT on Machine Learning and Quantum computing. He is a regular presenter / speaker at Certified Information Security Conference, International Cryptographic Module Conference, ML Conferences like NVIDIA GTC and SuperComputing, and Oracle Open World.Outside of work, He flies drones and pursuing FAA commercial drone flying license

Jeffrey Paul Cohen is an executive IT management consultant and general manager by profession. He leads a quantum computing startup in Chicago, IL USA. He holds a Masters degree in management from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, a Bachelors degree in economics from the University of Chicago, and completed four courses and dissertation research towards a PhD in Management Sciences from the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has built, led or turned around IT management consulting and project businesses ranging in size from 11 to 380 consultants, and with a peak size of $447M in annual sales. Has performed most roles in large consulting firms, including sales, delivery, pre-sales, solutioning, personnel management, portfolio development, and analyst relations. Domain expertise across all infrastructure domains (hardware, software, networks, facilities, operations, administration and management).

Henda Abassi has completed her PhD in 2003 from University of Tunis El Manar. She is an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis since 2004. She is teaching physics in several levels of training: Bachelor and Master (Optic, Mechanic, electromagnetism, Quantum mechanics, Statistical Physics) and has published in different areas of research (optical microcavities, polariton condensation, electronic properties of semiconductors...)

Nick Ayton is a futurist and leading Deep Tech thought leader with more than 40 years in tech and 12 start ups behind him. He studied Computer Science in the 1970’s and has seen each tech wave come and go, until Quantum changed everything. His current ventures include building new Crypto Capital Markets 2.0 for digital assets and using AI Bots for trading crypto pairs. Nick is a trusted adviser to Family Offices, Governments and companies who want to understand the implications of Deep Tech. His passion projects include filming a new TV mini series (Tech Thriller) against the backdrop of the Existential Threat of AI he has written and Quantum Jump a Cryogenic Computing Venture looking to deliver ‘Quantum Safe’ services for that is to come. Nick as a sought after global speaker and makes the complex feel familiar and like to get the awkward issues on the table. Always inspiring and provocative

Koen Bertels is a professor at Delft University of Technology and is responsible for the team that is building an architecture for the future quantum computer. For now, he is focusing on the development of the full-stack which is needed to build a quantum co-processor that is capable of performing specific quantum operations.

Dr Amin Malek Mohammadi is an experienced researcher with thorough discipline in Silicon Photonics, Design, Fabrication, and Data Analysis. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of Engineering Council (CEng), IET and Optical Society of America (OSA) has published over 90 scientific research papers, a postgraduate textbook, as well as delivering few keynote speeches at different international scientific conferences around the Globe. Up to now he is the holder of 4 patents on optical fiber communication systems.

Dr. Nadiatulhuda Zulkifli is currently an associate professor with the Lightwave Communication Research Group, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Her current research interests include optical communication and networking, and optical access networks, specifically in the allocation of bandwidth resources in the optical access and core domains. In optical core network domain, her research work focuses on routing and wavelength assignment algorithms for network that run on mixed services. In the access network domain, the focus is on the fault detection, dynamic bandwidth allocation algorithms, energy efficiency and physical layer design based on different modulation formats and power budgets. She has published in nearly 40 journals and conferences, and 2 invited book chapters. Her h-index is 6. In 2008, she received the Best Paper Award (Optical Track) in the IEEE International Conference on Broadband Networks (BROADNETS), London, UK.

Shilpi Gupta is an Assistant Professor of Electronics Engineering Department at Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology. She Received her Ph. D in Wireless Communication SVNIT, Surat in 2015. She received the M. Tech. degree from Kurukshetra University in 2007. She has published papers in reputed International journals. Her teaching and current research activities are focused on Free Space Optics, Optical biosensors using LPFG, FBG, Signal Processing, OFDM Technology, MIMO Technology, MIMO Radar Technology, Massive MIMO and 5G Technology. She works also as reviewer in an International Journal and had been as reviewer and program committees in International Conferences. She has supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate students to graduation. She is member of IEEE, IETE.

Shien-Kuei (Peter) Liaw received double PhD degrees from National Chiao-Tung University in photonics engineering and from National Taiwan University in mechanical engineering, respectively. He joined the Chunghua Telecommunication, Taiwan, in 1993. Since then, he has been working on optical communication and fiber based technologies. Prof. Liaw joined the department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) in 2000. He has ever been director of the Optoelectronics Research Center and the Technology Transfer Center, NTUST. He was a visiting researcher at Bellcore (now Telcordia), USA for six months in 1996 and a visiting Professor at University of Oxford, UK for three months in 2011.

Xiao-long Liu is an Associate Professor in Diode-pumped Laser Engineering Center in Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he has been since 2012. From 2015 to 2016 he was a Visiting Scholar in College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. in Optics from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science on 2012. His research interests are as follows. First, nonlinear phenomena and their applications of filamentation generated by femtosecond laser pulse in transparent media. Second, fundamental research on ultrashort laser matter interaction and its application in laser micromachining and laser cleaning.

Professor Ibrahim Abdulhalim is with the Electro-optics and Photonics Engineering Unit at Ben Gurion University since 2005. He worked in academic institutions and companies such as OCSC in UC at Boulder, the ORC at Southampton University, the Thin Films Center of the University of Western Scotland, in KLA-Tencor, Nova and GWS Photonics. His current research activities involve plasmonic and photonic biosensors, liquid crystal devices for imaging, biomedical imaging, optical metrology and energy devices. Published over 200 articles, 2 books, 10 chapters and inventor on 20 patents. He is a fellow of IoP and SPIE and an associate editor for the Journal of NanoPhotonics and for the Journal of Imaging. In 2014 he established Photonicsys Ltd., a company specialized in developing miniature plasmonic and photonic biosensor.

Robert S. Sutor has been a technical executive in the IT industry for over 30 years. More than two decades of that have been spent in IBM Research. He also spent time on the software side of the business and looking after open source and standards. Sutor is a mathematician by training and has a Ph.D. from Princeton University and an undergraduate degree from Harvard College. His primary goal throughout my career has been to drive technology that has a positive impact on society through science. In addition to internal IBM leadership and executive positions and the occasional external activity mostly during his standards days, he doesn’t think we can change the industry with technology unless we explain it and its value in understandable terms. He is now an executive leader in IBM’s IBM Q quantum computing program. Areas in which he’s worked: quantum computing, AI, blockchain, mathematics and mathematical software, Linux, open source, standards management, product management and marketing, computer algebra, web standards.

Doug is the founder of the Quantum Computing Report where he applies his wide breadth of experience to help accelerate the deployment of quantum computing. Doug has been involved in the computer, semiconductor, and storage industry for over 30 years and has helped drive the growth of many new technologies during this period. Doug believes that many of the new technology growth patterns he has seen within the computer industry will reoccur as the quantum technology field evolves. Doug has served as the Chief Operating Officer of the start-up company IntelliSense, where he helped sell the company at a valuation of $750 million. As Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development at the semiconductor startup ChipWrights, Doug also helped raise $25 million in venture capital funding. Other important firms for whom Doug has worked include Intel, IBM, Standard Microsystems and HGST/Western Digital. Doug holds degrees in computer engineering and management from the University of Illinois and MIT respectively.