Matthias Troyer
Technical Fellow And CVP at Stellenbosch University
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthias Troyer is a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft with 22 years of experience bridging computational physics, high-performance computing and quantum computing. A former ETH Zurich professor and Aneesur Rahman Prize recipient, he has pioneered numerical methods for quantum many-body problems and translated that research into deployable quantum-inspired algorithms for classical supercomputers. At Microsoft he leads quantum system architecture and application discovery, focusing on solving problems currently out of reach for conventional hardware while shepherding near-term, high-impact algorithms. He holds deep hands-on expertise in HPC software and C++, and maintains active academic ties as an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and an honorary professor at Stellenbosch. Notably, his career blends award-winning theoretical work with practical engineering to move ambitious quantum ideas toward real-world deployment.
22 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, Matura at BRG AuhofErste DIplomprüfung Physics, Erste DIplomprüfung Physics at Johannes Kepler Universität LinzDr. sc. nat Computational Physics, Dr. sc. nat Computational Physics at ETH Zürich
German, English
Github Skills (23)
asciidoctor10
random-generation10
assembly10
puzzle10
serialization10
boost10
makefile9
fortran9
mpi9
docbook9
cpp9
build-system8
objective-c8
derived7
build-tools6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ksvore/IEEEComputer
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:27 pushes in 1 month
boostorg/mpi
Jul 2007 - Nov 2013
Boost.org mpi module
Contributions:56 commits, 4 comments in 6 years 5 months
mpiboost
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