Talk
by
Dr. Subodh Kulkarni
President and CEO,
Rigetti Computing
11 am, 10th Sept 2024 (Tuesday)
Title: Quantum Computing - On the Brink of Explosive Growth
Abstract:
Quantum computing research has been in the academic domain for many years now. Recent development breakthroughs are likely to enable significant commercial opportunities with quantum computing, starting with national labs investments in the next 3-5 years. Among the various modalities of quantum computing, we believe superconducting modality is likely to be the dominant modality in future, primarily because of scalability and gate speeds. The key challenge with the superconducting modality has been fidelity, but various steps are being taken to improve fidelity and enable 99+% 2-qubit gate fidelity. We expect demonstration of narrow Quantum Advantage (The point at which a quantum computer can solve a practical, operationally relevant problem better, faster, or cheaper than current classical solution) in the next 2-3 years, and Quantum Advantage the following 2-3 years. Once Quantum Advantage is achieved we anticipate explosive growth in commercial opportunities for the quantum computing industry.
Speaker
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Kulkarni has served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Rigetti since December 2022. Dr. Kulkarni is a seasoned public company CEO with thirty-plus years of experience in the semiconductor industry and a track record of success in scaling and commercializing cutting-edge technologies. Prior to joining Rigetti, Dr. Kulkarni was President, CEO, and member of the Board of CyberOptics Corporation, a developer and manufacturer of high precision sensors and inspection systems for the semiconductor and electronics industry. He held these roles from 2014 until CyberOptics was acquired by Nordson Corporation in November 2022. Prior to CyberOptics, Dr. Kulkarni was CEO of Prism Computational Sciences, a developer of software tools for scientific and commercial applications in the semiconductor industry. Earlier in his career, he held additional leadership positions, including Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of OEM/Emerging business, global commercial business, R&D and manufacturing at Imation, a global scalable storage and data security company. Dr. Kulkarni began his career in research and management positions with 3M Corporation and IBM. He received his B.S. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and later obtained a M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from MIT. Dr. Kulkarni currently serves on the Board of KeyTronic Corporation, a publicly traded electronics manufacturing services company, as well as Chairman of the Board for Prism Computational Sciences.
Venue: Physics Seminar Room (Room No. 202), IIT Bombay
