Bio
I helped found, and am currently the CTO of, D-Wave. This is me being interviewed by Larry Smarr at Future in Review 2008.
Because what D-Wave is trying to do is so cool, I get to talk about it at lots of interesting places; everything from the 2003 TED conference to Supercomputing 2008.
Our approach to building quantum computers has been covered in a lot of different places (see sidebar in the blog) and a Harvard Business School case study.
I earned a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia with Philip Stamp, studying the effects of nuclear spins on decoherence in molecular magnets. Prior to UBC I went to school at McMaster University, where I did engineering physics with a solid state devices focus.
Since D-Wave was founded in 1999, we’ve raised over $70M, including a round led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ)—the first ever investment by a US venture capital firm in quantum computing, and a substantial investment by Goldman Sachs.
Other Interests
I have several interests other than quantum computing and D-Wave. You can read about them here.
