Conference Committees
Meet the programme chairs and the committees guiding QTML 2026.
Programme Committee Chairs
Amira Abbas
Google (Co-Chair)
Adrián Pérez Salinas
ETH Zürich & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Co-Chair)
Programme Committee
Amira AbbasGoogle (Co-Chair)
Adrián Pérez SalinasETH Zürich & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Co-Chair)
Abhinav DeshpandeIBM
Alba Cervera-LiertaBarcelona Supercomputing Center
Alejandro Pozas-KerstjensInstitute of Fundamental Physics, CSIC
Alessandra Di PierroUniversitĂ di Verona
Alessandro LuongoNational University of Singapore
Alexandre SchmidhuberMIT
Alexey MelnikovTerra Quantum AG
Anirban ChowdhuryIBM
Anna DawidLIACS, Leiden University
Antonio MeleFreie Universität Berlin
Armando AngrisaniEPFL
Benjamin VillalongaGoogle Quantum AI
Berta CasasLos Alamos National Laboratory
Brian CoyleQC Ware
Carlos Bravo-PrietoFreie Universität Berlin
Cenk TĂĽysuzCERN
Christa ZoufalIBM
Daniel ManzanoUniversity of Granada
David WindridgeMiddlesex University
David ZuecoUniversity of Zaragoza
Davide VenturelliNASA
Debbie LimUniversity of Latvia
Diego GarcĂa-MartĂnJohannes Kepler University
Eduard AlarcĂłnUniversitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Elias CombarroUniversity of Oviedo
Eric AnschuetzCaltech
Evan PetersUniversity of Waterloo
Evert van NieuwenburgLIACS, Leiden University
Francesco MeleScuola Normale Superiore
Francesco TacchinoIBM
Ilya SinayskiyUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal
Ingo RothTechnology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi
Jakob KottmannUniversity of Augsburg
Jonas LandmanINRIA / ENS Paris
Joseph BowlesXanadu
Kohei NakajiNVIDIA
Kunal SharmaIBM
Laura LewisUC Berkeley
Leonardo BanchiUniversity of Florence
Lirandë PiraNational University of Singapore
Lukasz CincioLos Alamos National Laboratory
Manuel RudolphEPFL
Maria SchuldXanadu
Mario Herrero GonzálezUniversity of Edinburgh
Mark WildeCornell University
Michele GrossiCERN
Mina DoostiUniversity of Edinburgh
Nana LiuShanghai Jiao Tong University
Oleksandr KyriienkoUniversity of Sheffield
Oscar DahlstenCity University of Hong Kong
Pablo RodrĂguez-GrasaUniversity of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Paolo BracciaLos Alamos National Laboratory
Renato M. FariasTechnology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi
Ruslan ShaydulinJPMorgan Chase
Ryan BabbushGoogle Quantum AI
Ryan LaRoseMichigan State University
Ryu HayakawaKyoto University
Sergii StrelchukUniversity of Oxford
Shahnawaz AhmedChalmers University of Technology
Sofiene JerbiFreie Universität Berlin
Sophia SimonUniversity of Toronto
Sumeet KhatriVirginia Tech
Supanut ThanasilpChulalongkorn University
Taylor PattiNVIDIA
Thiparat ChotibutChulalongkorn University
Tuyen NguyenUniversity of Technology Sydney
Yanlin ChenUniversity of Maryland
Yudai SuzukiEPFL
Zane RossiUniversity of Tokyo
Zoltán ZimborásUniversity of Helsinki & Algorithmiq
Organising Committee
Prof. Francesco PetruccioneStellenbosch University & NITheCS
Dr. Dean BrandStellenbosch University & NITheCS
Dr. Donovan SlabbertStellenbosch University & NITheCS
Eleanor KedemStellenbosch University
René KotzéNITheCS
Karla BassonStellenbosch University
Belinda ViretNITheCS
Steering Committee
Prof. Alessandra Di PierroUniversitĂ di Verona, Italy
Prof. Francesco PetruccioneStellenbosch University & NITheCS, South Africa
Prof. June-Koo Kevin RheeKAIST, South Korea
Dr. Michele GrossiCERN, Switzerland
Prof. Giovanni AcamporaUniversitĂ di Napoli, Italy
Prof. Muhammad UsmanCSIRO & University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Lirandë PiraNational University of Singapore, Singapore