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| === Neil Bouwer=== | | === Neil Bouwer=== |
| '''Vice-President, Innovation and Policy Services Branch, Canada School of Public Service''' <br> | | '''Vice-President, Innovation and Policy Services Branch, Canada School of Public Service''' <br> |
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| === Alireza Yazdi === | | === Alireza Yazdi === |
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| Alireza received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University where he is also an Adjunct-Professor. | | Alireza received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from McGill University where he is also an Adjunct-Professor. |
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− | He is globally recognized for his drive to help academia, industry and government prepare our cyber systems to be safe in an era with quantum computers. He co-founded evolutionQ Inc. to provide services and products that enable organizations to evolve their quantum-vulnerable systems and practices to quantum-safe ones. He was a founder of the ETSI-IQC workshop series in Quantum-Safe Cryptography. He co-founded softwareQ Inc. to help organizations benefit from the power of quantum computers.
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| === Vlad Gheorghiu === | | === Vlad Gheorghiu === |
| '''CEO, President and Co-Founder of softwareQ Inc''' <br> | | '''CEO, President and Co-Founder of softwareQ Inc''' <br> |
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| + | Dr. VLAD GHEORGHIU is the CEO, President and co-founder of softwareQ Inc., a |
| + | quantum software and quantum information processing company in Waterloo, ON |
| + | Canada. Vlad is also a senior researcher at the Institute for Quantum |
| + | Computing at the University of Waterloo, ON Canada, working on quantum |
| + | information and computation. He collaborates as well on quantum risk |
| + | assessment with evolutionQ Inc., ON Canada. |
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| + | Vlad is a member of CryptoWorks21 Quantum-Safe Cryptographic Infrastructure |
| + | Program and a member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute |
| + | (ETSI) Quantum-Safe Cryptography Standardization Group. |
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| + | Vlad holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. |
| + | His current research interests lie in quantum software and quantum |
| + | architectures, quantum-resistant cryptography, quantum error correction, |
| + | quantum cryptanalysis and resource estimation for realistic implementations of |
| + | quantum algorithms, entanglement theory, as well as applications of machine |
| + | learning techniques to the quantum domain. |
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