Vlad Gheorghiu
CEO, President, And Co-founder at University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolVlad Gheorghiu is a quantum computing and cyber-security leader with 12 years of experience as a founder and researcher, currently serving as CEO and Co-founder of softwareQ Inc. and an Affiliate of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, where he also holds an Adjunct Professorship. He holds a PhD in Quantum Computing from Carnegie Mellon and has led quantum and post-quantum efforts in industry and banking, including as Head of Quantum Computing at RBC. Vlad combines deep theoretical expertise—evidenced by his refereeing for top journals like Nature and Physical Review Letters—with hands-on low-level engineering, contributing assembly and C/C++ optimizations to prominent projects such as the open-quantum-safe liboqs library and a modern C++ quantum library. He is a founding member of Quantum Industry Canada and is known for translating advanced quantum algorithms and cryptographic research into practical, interoperable software and platform solutions. Colleagues describe him as a communicator who bridges academic rigor and product-focused execution across security, privacy, and quantum technologies.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Research Associate Quantum Information and Computation, Postdoctoral Research Associate Quantum Information and Computation at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at University of Bucharest
English, French, Romanian
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Github contributions (5)
softwareQinc/qpp
Mar 2014 - Sep 2022
Modern C++ quantum computing library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:115 releases, 13 reviews, 2335 commits in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Vlad contributed to the development of the `QCircuit` class within the "Modern C++ quantum computing library" (`softwareqinc/qpp`) repository. Their work focused on enhancing the functionality of the `QCircuit` class by implementing and refining features related to controlled gates (cCTRL) and their application. The user's contributions included adding and modifying various methods for handling gate operations, incorporating error handling, and integrating functionalities for non-destructive measurements and QASM 2.0 compatibility.
cppquantum-computingc-plus-plussimulatorquantum-development-kit
open-quantum-safe/liboqs
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
C library for prototyping and experimenting with quantum-resistant cryptography
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Assembly Programmer
Back-end Developer & Assembly ProgrammerContributions:1 review, 52 commits, 52 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily focused on low-level optimization and platform compatibility within the cryptography library. Their work involved fixing assembly code to ensure compatibility with macOS, specifically addressing issues related to the `.global` pseudo-op. They also contributed minimal example code demonstrating API usage, and addressed build issues and other refactoring tasks. Their contributions touched upon assembly code, and general codebase improvements for the post-quantum cryptography library.
post-quantumcryptographyexperimentingc-librarypublic-key-cryptography
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