Marco Pistoia, Ph.D., is a Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer, and the Global Head of JPMorganChase’s Applied Research Center, where he oversees research across 7 key domains: Quantum Computing, Quantum Communications, Blockchain and Privacy, Cloud Computing and Networking, Immersive Technology, Computer Vision and Trustworthy ML, and IoT. He is the Global Head of Quantum Computing.
Before joining JPMorganChase in January 2020, he was a Senior Manager, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he managed an international team of researchers responsible for Quantum Computing Algorithms and Applications.
He is the author of over 400 scholarly articles and has 600+ granted patents under his name. In 2022, he was certified as the 248th most prolific inventor of all time (worldwide).
Dr. Pistoia received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from New York University in May 2005. He is the lead author of nine printed books, including Enterprise Java Security (published by Addison-Wesley in English and by Tsinghua University Press in Chinese) and Java 2 Network Security (published by Prentice Hall). He is also a coauthor of the online textbook, Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit, published in 2020.
He has published and presented at numerous conferences worldwide (including NeurIPS and the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy), received five Distinguished Paper Awards from the ACM and IEEE, and published articles in numerous journals (including Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Physics, Nature Communications Physics, Nature Scientific Reports, Nature Partner Journal on Quantum Information, Physical Review Research, Quantum Science and Technology Institute of Physics, Physical Review A, and Science Advances). He has lectured at several research institutions worldwide (including Harvard, MIT, NYU, and ETH Zurich).
He has been a member of the Industry Advisory Council for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since April 2020, a member of the International Technology Advisory Panel at the Monetary Authority of Singapore since September 2023, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Quantum Applications Evaluation Panel since June 2024.
In April 2019, Dr. Pistoia received two IBM Corporate Awards—a Corporate Award is the highest technical recognition at IBM. He was the only IBM employee worldwide to have received two Corporate Awards in the same year. In 2023, Dr. Pistoia was one of the 12 technologists included in the HPCwire People to Watch, a 21-year-old program that “recognizes HPC professionals who play leading roles in driving innovation within their particular fields, making significant contributions to society as a whole.” Also in 2023, Dr. Pistoia received the Instinet Positive Change: Visionary Markets Choice Award.
The Quantum + AI Summit will feature a dynamic lineup of speakers and networking opportunities. Our agenda will be meticulously curated to address the most pressing challenges and opportunities facing quantum computing in the AI age today, as well as showcase behind-the-scenes look at applications and platforms being constructed.
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