Greater Seattle Area
After nearly two decades as professor of computational physics and high performance computing consultant, Matthias Troyer joined Microsoft's quantum computing division to develop novel computing paradigms and solve currently unsolvable problems. In Microsoft’s Quantum team he leads * System architecture for quantum computing and hybrid classical-quantum integration * Applications and the integration of Quantum and AI * Developer tools and agentic AI * Operating system and firmware * Quantum error correction * Hardware system architecture for scale and performance Recipient of the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics "for pioneering numerical work in many seemingly intractable areas of quantum many body physics and for providing efficient sophisticated computer codes to the community." and of the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics Specialties: high performance computing, computational science, quantum computing
Leading quantum system architecture and quantum application development
Leading the discovery of disruptive applications enabled by future quantum computers and the development of quantum-inspired algorithms that can be deployed today on classical high performance computing hardware.
Supporting Stellenbosch University on Quantum and AI
Computational Physics research and teaching
Simulations of quantum many body problems
Consulting and research on quantum computing and quantum simulation