Dr. Krysta Svore is Vice President of Applied Research for Quantum Computing at NVIDIA, joining the company after 19 years at Microsoft, where she served as Technical Fellow and VP of Advanced Quantum Development and pioneered reliable quantum computing through the co-design of hardware, software, and error correction. She began her career developing machine learning methods for web search before founding Microsoft’s quantum computing software, algorithms, and architecture program. She led the team that brought quantum computing to Azure, pioneered an open-source quantum software stack and scalable architecture, and co-achieved breakthroughs with Quantinuum and Atom Computing, resulting in the first logical qubits to outperform physical error rates in computation. She has published more than 70 refereed articles, filed over 30 patents, and is a fellow of the AAAS, APS, and WSAS, as well as a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, one of UNESCO’s Quantum100 leaders. Dr. Svore has advised the National Quantum Initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy, and DARPA, and is internationally recognized for transforming foundational research into breakthrough technologies and for building and empowering high performing teams. She now brings her visionary leadership to NVIDIA to accelerate the future of quantum computing.