Full Name
Krysta Svore
Job Title
Technical Fellow & VP, Advanced Quantum Development (Azure Quantum)
Company
Microsoft
Brief Biography
Krysta Svore is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, pioneering reliable quantum computing through co-design of quantum hardware, software, and error correction. After receiving her PhD in computer science with highest distinction from Columbia University (on achieving reliable, scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing), she joined Microsoft to develop machine learning methods for web search and won the 2010 Yahoo! Learning to Rank Challenge with a team of colleagues. She founded the Quantum Architectures and Computation group at Microsoft in 2011. Krysta and her team brought quantum computing to Azure and in 2024 created the first logical qubits with better-than-physical error rates with Quantinuum and with loss correction with Atom Computing. She is passionate about building a reliable quantum computer and developing novel quantum error correction for its realization and scale. She has published over 70 refereed articles and filed over 30 patents. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, and the Washington State Academy of Sciences, as well as a Kavli fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. She serves as an advisor to the National Quantum Initiative and the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee of the Department of Energy, and formerly served on the ISAT Committee of DARPA, in addition to numerous other quantum centers and initiatives globally. Krysta is passionate about empowering people and organizations around the world with scaled quantum computing and ensuring it becomes a force for good.
Krysta Svore