Applications of Quantum Computing for Data Science (John Watrous, PhD)

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Applications of Quantum Computing for Data Science (John Watrous, PhD)

April 14, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT

Synthetic Intelligence Forum is excited to convene a presentation about Applications of Quantum Computing for Data Science by Prof. John Watrous from University of Waterloo.

Biography: Prof. John Watrous is a professor of Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, a member of the Institute for Quantum Computing, an affiliate member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He was a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary from 2002 to 2006 where he held a Canada Research Chair in quantum computing.

He is an editor of the journal Theory of Computing and former editor for the journal Quantum Information & Computation. His research interests include quantum information and quantum computation. He is well known for his work on quantum interactive proofs. He has also published important papers on quantum finite automata and quantum cellular automata.

With Scott Aaronson, he showed that certain forms of time travel can make quantum and classical computation equivalent: together, the authors showed that quantum effects do not offer advantages for computation if computers can send information to the past through a type of closed timelike curve proposed by the physicist David Deutsch.

Prof. John Watrous received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1998. After a one year postdoctoral fellowship at the Laboratoire d’Informatique Théorique et Quantique at the Université de Montréal, he joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary as a faculty member. He moved to the University of Waterloo in July 2006, as a faculty member in the School of Computer Science and a member of the Institute for Quantum Computing.

Profiles of the host and presenter:
• Vik Pant, PhD – https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikpant
• John Watrous, PhD – https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~watrous/

Websites of University of Waterloo:
• Institute for Quantum Computing – https://uwaterloo.ca/institute-for-quantum-computing/
• Cheriton School of Computer Science – https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/

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