Speakers

Jayne Thompson is an Associate Professor at NTU college of computing and data science with expertise in quantum information and quantum computing. She previously held roles in industry and the public sector as the Group Manager for Quantum Algorithms and Phyiscs at A*Star's Institute of High Performance Computing, Principal Scientist and Technical Product Manager at Horizon Quantum Computing -- a quantum compiler company building full stack quantum software. As well as in academia as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore. Jayne received her PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Melbourne in 2012. 

She is currently a Fellow of both the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) and the Centre for Quantum Technologies. Her work spans quantum protocols, and design of quantum algorithms and programming languages.