About

I am the CEO, President and Co-Founder of softwareQ Inc, and a senior researcher at the Institute for Quantum Computing. I am also collaborating on quantum risk assessment with evolutionQ Inc.

I am involved in the CryptoWorks21 Quantum-Safe Cryptographic Infrastructure Program and I am a member of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Quantum-Safe Cryptography Standardization Group.

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a PhD in Theoretical Physics. My advisor was Robert B. Griffiths.

Curriculum Vitae as of June 2021

"Try not to become a man of success,
but rather try to become a man of value"
–Albert Einstein

Contact

Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada
Office: IQC-QNC 3112
Email: vgheorgh AT gmail DOT com
Twitter: @vlad_hbar
PGP Public Key (4096 bit)

Research

I am interested in quantum software and quantum architectures, applications of small-sized quantum computers (NISQ) to concrete optimization problems, fault-tolerant quantum processing, quantum communication, quantum and classical cryptography and classical/quantum separation.

Work in progress

• Quantum software, quantum architectures
• Fault tolerance for higher dimensional systems
• Quantum resource estimation for cryptographic algorithms
• Classical/quantum separation, correlation measures

Referee service

Publications

For an up-to-date list, please see my CV, my arXiv feed or my Google Scholar profile.

Software

My personal GitHub repositories
The Quantum Software group at IQC

I contribute to open source software. Below is a list of some of my favourite projects/code snippets I developed:

• Quantum++
  – A modern C++11 general purpose quantum computing library, composed solely of template header files. It uses the Eigen 3 linear algebra library and, if available, the OpenMP multi-processing library. Status: active, version 2.6 released on 9 January 2021 under the MIT License.


• I am a proud contributor to the Open Quantum Safe liboqs PQC library.


• liboqs-cpp
  – A C++11 wrapper around Open Quantum Safe liboqs PQC library.


• liboqs-go
  – A Go wrapper around Open Quantum Safe liboqs PQC library.


• I am a contributor to liboqs-python
  – A Python 3 wrapper around Open Quantum Safe liboqs PQC library.


• Design patterns
  – My take on design patterns in modern C++ (C++11/C++14).


• spell
  – Tired of (mis)spelling your name during a phone call? spell.py does it for you, using phonetic alphabet(s) (NATO phonetic alphabet by default).


• pytexnumber
  – A Python 2/3 console program for renumbering LaTeX references (labels).


• cpptexnumber
  – The C++11 version of pytexnumber above.


• Texnumber / GTexnumber
  – A console/GUI Java program for renumbering LaTeX references (labels). The Java sources are included in the .jar files. The Netbeans project (including sources) is located here.
  • Description: same as pytexnumber above.
  
  
  • Usage: Unzip the archive then run the program with
    java -jar [G]Texnumber.jar