Presenter

K. Grace Johnson is a Senior Research Scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs where she works on integrating quantum computing with supercomputing. She received her PhD in Chemical Physics in 2023 from Stanford University where she studied with Prof. Todd Martinez. During her PhD, Grace was a U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow, and in her research developed frameworks to parallelize and accelerate quantum chemistry simulations for HPC as well as simulating quantum circuits using tensor network methods. Her current work at HPE aims to develop hybrid quantum/classical approaches to solve challenging real-world problems in the near term, focusing on partitioning and distributing quantum workloads. Grace is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah but now calls the SF Bay Area home.