Field of Expertise
Quantum Computing, High Performance Computing
Expertise
Physicist by training, Mehdi’s technical contributions to the High Performance and Quantum Computing communities are numerous, from infrastructure management through collaborations with Red Hat, Intel and Cray, to many quantum computing enablement workshops in collaboration with the industry and a chapter in the online Qiskit textbook on quantum image processing. His time as offering manager for the IBM Q Startup program led to a significant increase of startups joining the program and contributing to the ecosystem. He led the engagement with Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) in Toronto, which made IBM Quantum a technology provider for the CDL quantum stream and then worked on the IBM Quantum hub setup at University of Sherbrooke. At Cambridge Quantum Computing where he was head of business development and offerings, he worked on scaling up the organization, and the productization and monetization of research engagements, which led to a successful funding round and the merger CQC - Honeywell Quantum Solutions. He joined the Quantum Algorithms Institute as director, Business Development to work more closely with the Canadian quantum ecosystem.