Entangled Things

In Episode 61, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Jason Soroko, SVP of product at Sectigo.

The team discuss Shor's algorithm, cryptography, and the future of post quantum certificate technology.

Jason Soroko is an experienced security technology innovator. The SVP of Product for Sectigo is responsible for facing customers, researching, innovating, educating, and contributing to strategy, national level guidance, intellectual property development, and consortium standards. Solving real business problems by synthesizing security state of the art with real world operational needs is what Jason does on a daily basis.
 
Jason has previous experience in complex data structures and Geographic Information Systems, especially in the fields on climate statistics and spatial mathematics. Jason worked as an architect and developer of complex data structures and mathematical problems related to GIS systems for the oil and gas industry.

In Episode 60, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Philip Murphy, CEO of Cornelis Networks.

The team discuss AI, large language models, optimization problems, and the connections to Quantum Computing.

Philip Murphy: As CEO of Cornelis Networks, Phil is responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the company. Prior to co-founding Cornelis Networks, Phil served as a director at Intel Corporation, responsible for fabric platform planning and architecture, product positioning, and business development support. Prior to that role, Phil served as vice president of engineering and vice president of HPC technology within QLogic’s Network Solutions Group, responsible for the design, development, and evangelizing of all high-performance computing products, as well as all storage area network switching products. Before joining QLogic, Phil was vice president of engineering at SilverStorm Technologies, which he co-founded in 2000 and which was acquired by QLogic in 2006. SilverStorm’s core focus was on providing complete network solutions for high performance computing clusters. Prior to co-founding SilverStorm, Phil served as director of engineering at Unisys Corporation and was responsible for all I/O development across the company’s diverse product lines.

Phil holds a BS in Mathematics from St. Joseph’s University and an MS in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

In Episode 59, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Garland Garris, lead for quantum security and post quantum cryptography at Accenture Federal Services.

The team discuss timeline predictions to break RSA, methods of protecting current information in a post quantum world, and the potential threats of Y2Q.

Garland Garris: As Accenture Federal Services Quantum Security Lead, Garland Garris, provides Insider Threat, Law Enforcement, Intelligence, cybersecurity expertise and leadership to help guide the company’s cybersecurity business initiatives. Garland is the former Senior Leader responsible for cybersecurity for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), one of the founders of the FBI’s Insider Threat Center and provisioned implementation of multiple data science, investigative and analytic systems. An expert in Insider Threat Programs, Data Analytics, Cyber defense and operational programs, Garris brings 29 years of professional experience, 15 of which were served within national security agencies.

In Episode 58, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Michael Biercuk, CEOand Founder of Q-CTRL.

The team discuss quantum education, infrastructure software, error correction, and the quantum computing stack.

Michael J. Biercuk is the CEO and Founder of Q-CTRL, a quantum technology company, and a Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology at the University of Sydney. In his academic position he leads a research team as a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems, exploring the role of control engineering in quantum-coherent systems. Michael earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Masters and PhD from Harvard University. He held a research fellowship in the Ion Storage Group at NIST Boulder, and has served as a full-time technical consultant to DARPA, helping to steer government investments in quantum information and advanced computer architectures. Michael is a SXSW and TEDx speaking alumnus and a multi-time Australian Museum Eureka Prize nominee and winner.

In Episode 57, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Jake Yocom-Piatt, Co-Founder and Project Lead for Decred and CEO of Company-0.

The team discuss Cryptocurrency, Encryption Standards, and the threat of Quantum Computing to the blockchain.

Jake Yocom-Piatt is a Co-Founder & Project Lead for Decred (www.decred.org). He is a cryptocurrency pioneer who has been using, funding and directing the creation of open-source software for 10+ years and has been featured as an expert source for a variety of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Coindesk, and many more. Prior to Decred, Jake funded and oversaw the creation of btcsuite, an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in go, whose source code has been used in several other notable projects, e.g. Lightning Network (lnd), Ethereum, and Factom. He also is a co-creator of zkc, a high-security asynchronous chat system.

In Episode 56, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Himadri Majumdar, Co-Founder and Chief Executive of SemiQon.

The team discuss semiconductor based quantum technologies, error correction, improvement of operating temperature ranges, and the benefit of research centers such as VTT.

Himadri Majumdar is the Co-founder and chief executive of SemiQon. SemiQon builds silicon-based quantum processors for the million-qubit era. Prior to co-founding SemiQon he was the Program Manager for Quantum Technologies at VTT. In his role he helped companies in quantum technology domain - especially fabless start-ups - to utilize VTT’s R&D expertise and infrastructure in quantum technologies. Himadri was also a founding member of the Finnish Quantum technologies ecosystem, InstituteQ, and led the business arm of the ecosystem, BusinessQ. His ambition is to see SemiQon, and quantum technology in general, becoming a Finnish and global success story through cooperation and strategic partnerships. Himadri has 20 years of experience in innovation and innovation management and is also trained as an experimental physicist.

 SemiQon’s mission is to realise the promise of quantum computing by delivering scalability through powerful, resilient, and cost-effective quantum processors. SemiQon’s technology builds upon decades of development and know-how from the semiconductor industry, making its silicon processors commercially competitive and well-suited for mass-manufacturing. SemiQon is a spin-off from VTT, Finland and it operates at the Micronova Center for Applied Micro and Nanotechnology in Espoo, Finland.

In Episode 55, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Dr. Vincent Berk, Chief Strategist at Quantum Xchange.

The team discuss Quantum safe encryption, improvements to security with Quantum Computing, hybrid problem solving, and risk management.

Dr. Vincent Berk is currently the Chief Strategy Officer at Quantum Xchange. Recognized as a highly technical cybersecurity executive and industry thought leader, Vince is also a successful entrepreneur and academic. He founded and led FlowTraq, an enterprise network security and analytics company from conception to acquisition and served as a computer science faculty member at the prestigious Dartmouth College.

 Dr. Berk has a Ph.D. in machine learning and large-scale data analytics from Leiden University and holds several patents in the application of data analysis in cybersecurity and network performance.

In Episode 54, Patrick and Ciprian take a retrospective look at the past two years of Entangled Things.

The team discuss the perhaps unlikely success of the format, learning to trust the math, recent chipset releases, and the surprises of the past two years.

In Episode 53, Patrick and Ciprian speak with Dr. Johannes Oberreuter, Data Science Technical Lead at Machine Learning Reply.

Among other topics, the team discuss classical neural networks, quantum networks, hybrid approaches, and the ongoing reduction of resource needs and improving accuracy of neural networks.

Dr. Johannes Oberreuter works as a Data Science Technical Lead at Machine Learning Reply and he is co-leading the Quantum Computing practice in Reply. He has been studying physics and mathematics in Munich (Diploma of Physics), Heidelberg and Cambridge (Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics) and has obtained his PhD in theoretical physics at the university of Amsterdam on quantum effects in the early universe. He has also conducted research at the University of Göttingen and TU Munich on quantum dynamics.

In Episode 52, Patrick and Ciprian speak with returning guest Todd Brun of the University of Southern California.

Among other topics, the team discuss error correction, non-Markovian errors, the limitations of current quantum processors and the battle between numbers of Qubits and amounts of noise.

Todd Brun is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, and Computer Science at the University of Southern California.  He does research on quantum theory, especially on the problems of quantum computing and quantum information science.  Prof. Brun received his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech in 1994, and did postdoctoral work at the University of London (Queen Mary and Westfield College), the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, before starting at USC in 2003.