speaker
Dr Karen Wintersperger
Research Scientist,
Siemens AG
Investigating and improving near-term quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization | by QUTAC
Karen Wintersperger received her PhD in physics from LMU Munich working on experimental quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices. In her current position, she is evaluating industrial quantum computing use cases and is pursuing research in the fields of quantum optimization, quantum machine learning and hardware-software co-design for quantum computers. Since 2023, Karen is leading the working group Quantum Machine learning and Optimization of the QUTAC industry consortium.