Maria Schuld
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Senior Researcher
Xanadu, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal |
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Maria Schuld works as a senior researcher for the Toronto-based quantum computing start-up Xanadu, as well as for the Big Data and Informatics Flagship of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, from which she received her PhD in theoretical physics in 2017. She co-authored the book "Supervised Learning with Quantum Computers" (Springer 2018) and is a lead developer of the PennyLane software framework for quantum differentiable programming. Besides her research on the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning, Maria has a postgraduate degree in political science, and a keen interest in the interplay between emerging technologies and society.
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Technical Vision Talk: Machine learning with quantum computers
The first prototypes of quantum computers are here. What does this mean for machine learning? This is a question researchers have started investigating a few years back, resulting in many interesting, but not always so obvious answers. The talk will give an overview of quantum machine learning research and illustrate that quantum algorithms can be trained like neural nets, but look formally very similar to kernel methods.
Meet-the-Speaker:
Maria will also participate in a Meet the Speaker session, where you will be able to have a deeper dive conversation about topics covered on the main stage. Accessible to WiDS Worldwide registrants.
Maria will also participate in a Meet the Speaker session, where you will be able to have a deeper dive conversation about topics covered on the main stage. Accessible to WiDS Worldwide registrants.