Koen and I had this wide ranging and fascinating conversation on May 15, 2020.

Koen Bertels is the head of the Quantum Computer Architectures Lab.  He currently focus on Quantum Computing and more specifically on the overall system design and architecture aspects.

He is a principal investigator in Qutech where he collaborates  with experimental physicists on building prototype quantum processors.  Koen’s research interests spanned two of the three research pillars of the Lab, namely Multi and Many-core architectures and Electronic System Level Design.  He was responsible for the Delft Workbench project that aims to provide semi-automatic support for designing heterogeneous multicore platforms where reconfigurable technology offers plenty of possibilities to generate application specific hardware at runtime.  An overview of relevant publications on various topics related to heterogeneous multicore computing can be found on his research page.

He also started two companies. The first, called BlueBee, was formed with colleagues from the CE lab and Wayne Luk from Imperial College, that provides a cloud service for genome sequencing.  Bluebee received 10 Mio € venture capital in 2016. More information can be found on the the BlueBee website below. The second company is a financial portfoliomanagement software company in Luxemburg, called Upsilon, also below.  www.upsilon.lu

This is a link to Koen's lab: www.tudelft.nl/eemcs/the-faculty/departments/quantum-computer-engineering/quantum-computer-architecture-lab/staff/koen-bertels

Here is a link to BlueBee:  www.bluebee.com

Here is a link to one of Koen's Ted Talks and you can find many more of his presentations on the emerging field of quantum computing online:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPplkPKDZHI