Shesha Raghunathan joined IBM in 2011 and is currently Strategic Partnerships Lead for India in IBM Quantum. He is responsible for both supply side – i.e. deploying physical machine or cloud access – as well as demand side – i.e. develop collaborations in ecosystem to consume access – of quantum computing in India.

Previously, he was Global Lead for Startup Ecosystem where he was responsible for engaging with startups worldwide and has delivered novel go-to-market functionalities like Qiskit Functions. Prior to that, he was part of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Timing analysis development team and worked on various aspect of analysis including noise, timing abstraction, reporting along with analytics and machine learning.

Shesha got his PhD in Electrical Engineering (Quantum Computing) from University of Southern California, LA in 2010. His current research interests include near-term quantum algorithms, circuit optimization and quantum machine learning.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shesha-raghunathan

Abstract: Quantum computing is at the precipice of unlocking value and to create market for the technology. In this talk, I will talk about what quantum advantage will look like in pre-fault tolerant era, how HPC + Quantum is integral in achieving it, and will provide an overview of what IBM is working on to facilitate that outcome. I will also cover IBM’s roadmap to error correction – both hardware and software, and will talk about where we are and how we plan to get there.