IEEE Quantum TC Podcast

In this episode of the IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, our host Steve La Barbera speaks with Dr. Masoud Mohseni, Senior Distinguished Technologist and Director of HPE Quantum at HPE Labs. Masoud, who previously spent a decade at Google Quantum AI and co-created TensorFlow Quantum, explains why HPE is building a quantum supercomputer from the application layer down, acting as a system integrator rather than another QPU vendor. Steve and Masoud discuss why he believes practical quantum advantage has yet to be demonstrated on any modality, how to coordinate QPUs and GPUs running on vastly different timescales, and why agentic AI will be essential to operating these machines. They also cover the Quantum Scaling Alliance, which Masoud co-leads with Nobel laureate John Martinis, the NSF-funded TangleLab testbed at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, the remaining challenge of end-to-end quantum error correction, and why post-quantum cryptography is already a concern today.  

In this episode of the IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, our host Steve La Barbera talks with Dr. Claire Le Gall, Vice President of Technology at Nu Quantum, a Cambridge-UK based company building the hardware that connects quantum processors to one another, in what the company calls its entanglement fabric. After its recent $60 million Series A, the largest capital investment to date for a quantum networking company worldwide, Nu Quantum is on track to deliver networked or "distributed" quantum computing over the medium term. Dr. Le Gall leads the company's technology development to enable high-rate, high-fidelity entanglement between quantum processors to scale quantum computers via distributed architectures. Claire is an accomplished physicist with expertise in quantum optics, networks and spin-photon interfaces, with a decade of research at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. There, she was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Royal Society Fellowship while leading her own research group. Notably in 2017, Claire demonstrated the fastest two-node quantum network to date, and a world-first collective quantum memory, both in 2019 and again in 2024, using optically active semiconductor quantum dots. She has a track record of solving cutting-edge scientific challenges, and of managing the trade-offs and complex system-engineering requirements of quantum hardware.

In this episode of the IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, our host Steve LaBarbera speaks with André M. König, CEO of Global Quantum Intelligence. With over 30 years of experience in Fortune 500, investing, and startup sectors, André is a passionate and visionary leader in the quantum tech industry. He is also the founder and chairman of OneQuantum, the leading quantum tech community platform with over 15,000 members across 45 countries, connecting quantum enthusiasts, professionals, and organizations through events, summits, mentoring, and projects. As a published author, speaker, and expert on DeepTech, he often shares his analysis on quantum tech trends, opportunities, and challenges through various media outlets and platforms, including my popular newsletter quantumcomputing.substack.com.  André studied quantum computing at MIT and holds an MBA in economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a masters in business from ICN School of Management. 

In this episode of the IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, host Steve talks with D-Wave's Trevor Lanting and Rob Schoelkopf. Trevor Lanting, D-Wave's Chief Development Officer, is a senior R&D executive with over 15 years of experience in technology development. He leads D-Wave's product development organization, which includes teams responsible for software, systems, and cloud services. He holds a BSc in physics and astronomy from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Rob Schoelkopf, co-founder of Quantum Circuits and now Chief Scientist at D-Wave, is the Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics at Yale University and Founding Director of the Yale Quantum Institute. His is one of the founders of the circuit quantum electrodynamics field with many firsts in solid-state quantum computing, including the transmon qubit and quantum algorithms with quantum error correction in integrated circuits.

In this episode IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, our host Steve LaBarbera speaks with Jan Goetz about IQM, a global leader in superconducting quantum computers. Jan was on the Board of the European Innovation Council EIC where he now serves as an EIC ambassador, and he holds a Board seat in the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC. He is also and member of the German Federal Economic Senate, an EIC Scaling Club Council member, member of the Hall of Future, as well as a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the World Economic Forum (WEF). Goetz did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent.  

In this episode, Steve sits down with Jerry Chow, IBM Fellow and Chief Technology Officer of Quantum Centric Supercomputing at IBM. Doctor Chow led the IBM quantum team that developed and deployed IBM Quantum System two, the first modular quantum computer, and a major milestone towards quantum centric supercomputing. He was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his study at Yale, where he worked on implementing the first quantum processor with superconducting qubits. He joined IBM research as a research staff member in 2010, and in 2012, he was recognized in the Forbes 30 under 30 technology list. This conversation spans across roadmaps, initiatives within IBM, partnerships across companies, and where quantum is heading. 

In this episode, Steve sits down with Christophe Jurczak, founder of Quantonation, about the state of quantum investments. Dr. Jurczak has held government and executive positions in energy, defense and in the emerging field of quantum computing, in Europe and in the US, before co-founding Quantonation Ventures in 2018. He also holds a PhD in Quantum Physics under the supervision of Prof. Alain Aspect (Nobel prize 2022) on laser cooling of atoms. 

In this episode of the IEEE Quantum TC Podcast, our host Steve La Barbera speaks with John Preskill about some of the developments in quantum information science.  John is the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, and Director of the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. He's also the 2025 recipient of the Academic Pioneer in Quantum Award from the Quantum World Congress.

In this first episode of the re-launched IEEE CS Quantum Podcast Series, our host Steve LaBarbera speaks with Travis Humble about the state of the art in quantum computing and possible directions for the future.  Travis is director of the Quantum Science Center, a Distinguished Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and director of the lab's Quantum Computing Institute. Travis also serves as the IEEE CS Quantum Technical Community's Conference Chair.