Presenter

Alexander McCaskey is a quantum computing software architect at NVIDIA, and the manager of the Quantum Computing Architecture and Algorithms team. His work is focused on programming models, compilers, and languages for heterogeneous quantum-classical computing. He is the lead architect for the CUDA Quantum project, a novel quantum-classical programming model in C++ and Python enabling performant workflows on heterogeneous architectures. Previously, he was a staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he led the development of the XACC system-level quantum framework and the QCOR quantum-classical C++ compiler platform. He received BSc degrees in 2010 in physics and mathematics from the University of Tennessee, and an MSc degree in physics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2014.