IEEE Quantum TC Podcast

In this episode of the IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, host Steve talks with D-Wave's Trevor Lanting and Rob Schoelkopf. Trevor Lanting, D-Wave's Chief Development Officer, is a senior R&D executive with over 15 years of experience in technology development. He leads D-Wave's product development organization, which includes teams responsible for software, systems, and cloud services. He holds a BSc in physics and astronomy from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Rob Schoelkopf, co-founder of Quantum Circuits and now Chief Scientist at D-Wave, is the Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale University and Founding Director of the Yale Quantum Institute. His is one of the founders of the circuit quantum electrodynamics field with many firsts in solid-state quantum computing, including the transmon qubit and quantum algorithms with quantum error correction in integrated circuits.

In this episode IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, our host Steve LaBarbera speaks with Jan Goetz about IQM, a global leader in superconducting quantum computers. Jan was on the Board of the European Innovation Council EIC where he now serves as an EIC ambassador, and he holds a Board seat in the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC. He is also and member of the German Federal Economic Senate, an EIC Scaling Club Council member, member of the Hall of Future, as well as a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Goetz did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent.  

In this episode, Steve sits down with Jerry Chow, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Quantum Centric Supercomputing at IBM. Doctor Chow led the IBM quantum team that developed and deployed IBM Quantum System two, the first modular quantum computer, and a major milestone towards quantum centric supercomputing. He was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his study at Yale, where he worked on implementing the first quantum processor with superconducting qubits. He joined IBM research as a research staff member in 2010, and in 2012, he was recognized in the Forbes 30 under 30 technology list. This conversation spans across roadmaps, initiatives within IBM, partnerships across companies, and where quantum is heading. 

In this episode, Steve sits down with Christophe Jurczak, founder of Quantonation, about the state of quantum investments. Dr. Jurczak has held government and executive positions in energy, defense and in the emerging field of quantum computing, in Europe and in the US, before co-founding Quantonation Ventures in 2018. He also holds a PhD in Quantum Physics under the supervision of Prof. Alain Aspect (Nobel prize 2022) on laser cooling of atoms. 

In this episode of the IEEE Quantum TC Podcast, our host Steve La Barbera speaks with John Preskill about some of the developments in quantum information science.  John is the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and Director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. He's also the 2025 recipient of the Academic Pioneer in Quantum Award from the Quantum World Congress.

In this first episode of the re-launched IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, our host Steve LaBarbera speaks with Travis Humble about the state of the art in quantum computing and possible directions for the future.  Travis is director of the Quantum Science Center, a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and director of the lab's Quantum Computing Institute. Travis also serves as the IEEE CS Quantum Technical Community's Conference Chair.