Adenilton Silva
Adjunct Professor at CIn - Center for Informatics
Pernambuco, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolAdenilton Silva is an adjunct professor and researcher in quantum computation and quantum machine learning with over a decade of experience combining academic teaching and hands-on engineering. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and has taught at multiple Brazilian institutions while leading research at CIn. Beyond academia, he contributes to high-profile open-source projects like Qiskit, improving core quantum circuit functionality and optimizations—a signal of practical impact on the quantum software stack. His work bridges theoretical research and applied back-end development, focusing on circuit parsing, global phase issues, and gate-simplification optimizations. Based in Pernambuco, Brazil, he brings a rare mix of rigorous scholarship and production-grade contributions to the quantum computing community.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Github Skills (10)
circuit10
quantum-computing10
quantum-programming-language10
qiskit10
python10
sdk9
data-structure7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Qiskit/qiskit
Dec 2017 - Aug 2022
Qiskit is an open-source SDK for working with quantum computers at the level of extended quantum circuits, operators, and primitives.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 9 commits, 15 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Adenilton primarily contributed to the Qiskit library by addressing code-related issues. Their work included fixing precedence issues, modifying parser files, and resolving issues related to circuit optimization and global phase. Additionally, the user implemented improvements for the initializer, involving CNOT gate simplification and test updates. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the core functionality of the quantum computing library.
pythonquantum-circuitsquantum-computingcircuitsquantum-circuit
adjs/am-cq
Sep 2019 - Mar 2020
Grupo de leitura sobre aprendizagem de máquina e computação quântica
Contributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 18 pushes in 6 months
pythonleituracomputasobregrupo
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