Julien Gacon

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Julien Gacon

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Title

Research Scientist, Quantum Computational Science

Location

IBM Research Europe - Zurich Zurich, Switzerland

Bio

Dr. Julien Gacon is a Research Scientist in the Quantum Computational Science group of IBM Quantum at IBM Research Europe — Zurich. His current research focuses on closing the gap of quantum algorithms and near-term quantum devices on both the algorithm and compiler level. As part of this, he is developing and maintaining the Qiskit SDK.

He received a Doctor of Sciences from EPFL for his thesis on scalable quantum algorithms for noisy quantum computers, and a M.Sc. degree in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich.

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