Speaker Profile
Biography
Matthias Troyer is working on the system architecture of quantum computers and their applications at Microsoft. Matthias is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and President of the Aspen Center for Physics. He is recipient of the Rahman Prize for Computational Physics of the American Physical Society 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.
Talk
I will explore intersection of quantum computing and AI, and their potential to accelerate scientific discovery. Combining the accuracy of quantum computing with the acceleration offered by AI has the potential to transform chemistry, materials science and biology
Session Abstract – PMWC 2025 Silicon Valley
Track Chair:
Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- PMWC 2025 Luminary Award
Luminary Honoree: Jensen Huang, Nvidia
- Continued Jensen Huang, Nvidia
- Predictive Modeling for Drug Development
- Luca Emili, InSilicoTrials
- Knowledge Graphs, LLMs & Foundation Models for Enhanced Drug Development
- Janusz Dutkowski, Data4Cure
- Paul Rejto, Pfizer
- PMWC Showcase
- Peter Ellman, Certis Oncology
- Beyond LLMs: Harnessing Advanced AI Models for Genomics and Transcriptomics (PANEL)
Chair: Gad Getz, Broad Institute
- Yasin Şenbabaoğlu, CZ Biohub San Francisco
- Orly Alter, PrismAI
- Nicolo Fusi, Microsoft - Empowering AI in Precision Medicine with Federated Data Platforms
- Noah Nasser, Datma
- Advancing Global Health through Data Sharing: Practical Strategies and Success Stories (PANEL)
Chair: Luca Foschinii, Sage Bionetworks
- Peter Goodhand, GA4GH
- Karen Miga, UCSC
- Philip Awadalla, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- Driving Drug Discovery With Low-cost Foundational Omics Datasets
- Gilad Almogy, Ultima Genomics
- Johnny Yu, Vevo Therapeutics
- Stacie Calad-Thomson, NVDIA - Enabling Targeted Precision Drug & Gene Delivery with Predictive AI
- Andre Watson, Ligandal Inc.
- Quantum Leap: The Future of AI and Machine Learning with Quantum Computing
- Matthias Troyer, Microsoft