Careers: Interviews
A Chat with Dr. Krysta Svore: Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Advanced Quantum Development, Microsoft

This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Dr. Krysta Svore.

Dr. Krysta Svore is passionate about empowering people and organizations around the world with quantum computing and realizing a scaled quantum machine. Her team designs and delivers Azure Quantum, the most diverse cloud platform for quantum research and discovery, and is developing a comprehensive software stack for scalable quantum computing including languages, compilers, and mappings to quantum hardware. Her team designs open software including Q# and QIR.

Dr. Svore has published over 70 refereed articles and filed over 30 patents. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She won the 2010 Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge with a team of colleagues, received an ACM Best of 2013 Notable Article award, and was recognized as one of Business Insider Most Powerful Female Engineers of 2018. A Kavli fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, she also serves as an advisor to the National Quantum Initiative, the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy, and the ISAT Committee of DARPA, in addition to numerous other quantum centers and initiatives globally.

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