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Colloquium
June 13, 2025

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: Auditorium

ICFO Colloquium Series

MARIA SCHULD
Xanadu

ABSTRACT: TBC

BIO:

Maria leads the quantum machine learning research team at Xanadu, a Toronto-based quantum computing start-up. She co-authored a book as well as many papers on the topic of how quantum computers can help to generalise from data, and is one of the original developers of the PennyLane software framework for quantum differentiable programming. Maria received her PhD degree in physics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in 2017, but also holds a postgraduate degree in political science and still spends some of her time on the intersection of machine learning and social sciences research.

Colloquium
June 13, 2025

Hour: From 12:00h to 13:00h

Place: Auditorium

ICFO Colloquium Series

MARIA SCHULD
Xanadu

ABSTRACT: TBC

BIO:

Maria leads the quantum machine learning research team at Xanadu, a Toronto-based quantum computing start-up. She co-authored a book as well as many papers on the topic of how quantum computers can help to generalise from data, and is one of the original developers of the PennyLane software framework for quantum differentiable programming. Maria received her PhD degree in physics from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in 2017, but also holds a postgraduate degree in political science and still spends some of her time on the intersection of machine learning and social sciences research.

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