Ryan Babbush
Ryan Babbush is a physicist and computer scientist that directs the Quantum Algorithms and Applications Team within Google’s quantum computing effort, Quantum AI. Ryan has been working with Quantum AI since it was founded in 2013 and joined the effort full time in 2015 upon receiving his PhD from Harvard University. Ryan’s team focuses broadly on quantum algorithms with applications ranging from machine learning, optimization, and differential equations to cryptography. However, Ryan is perhaps best known for his individual contributions developing some of the best scaling approaches to simulating quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics on quantum computers, with applications in domains such as drug design, battery development and nuclear fusion.