Vlad is the CEO of SoftwareQ. He also is part of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His current 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. Vlad has more than 15 years of experience in quantum information and computation, and more than 1200 citations in peer-reviewed articles.”