Pau Farré
Manager, Benchmarking Programs at D-Wave Systems Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPau Farré is a manager and algorithm researcher with eight years of experience building and benchmarking quantum computing algorithms at D-Wave, combining deep expertise in Bayesian inference, Monte Carlo methods, dimensionality reduction and deep learning. He holds a PhD in Physics and has translated biophysics and genomics problems—such as chromatin folding mapped to Ising models—into publishable machine learning solutions during academic posts at Simon Fraser and UBC. At D-Wave he progressed from applied researcher to Manager of Benchmarking Programs, leading evaluation frameworks that bridge quantum hardware, algorithms and practical ML workloads. Comfortable moving between theory and production, he brings a rare mix of statistical physics intuition and hands-on algorithm development for quantum and classical systems. Outside work he applies the same experimental mindset to urban farming, reflecting a practical curiosity that informs both research and leadership.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at University of BarcelonaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Simon Fraser University
English, Catalan, Spanish
Github Skills (44)
wave10
sampler10
algorithms9
d-wave9
api9
igraph9
quantum-computing9
ocean8
embedding8
directed-acyclic-graph8
networkx8
coding8
graph8
mutual-information8
system-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pau557/dimod
Feb 2021 - Jul 2024
A shared API for QUBO/Ising samplers.
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 5 months
apisamplersquboising
dwavesystems/hss-overview-benchmarks
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:7 commits, 3 pushes in 10 days
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