Challenges and Opportunities in Closing the Algorithms-to-Devices Gap in QC | M. Martonosi | #03

🎥 The Circle Webinar Series – QUADRATURE Project 🧠 Title: Mind the Gap: Challenges and Opportunities in Closing the Algorithms-to-Devices Gap in Quantum Computing 🎙️ Speaker: Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University) 📅 Date: 30 March 2026 Abstract From its initial proposal, Quantum Computing (QC) has had captivating potential, and scientists have worked on advancing toward that potential. With well-known algorithms as motivation, and increasingly capable hardware devices, QC has now reached an interesting and important inflection point. The Algorithms-to-Devices gap in QC refers to the orders of magnitude difference between the quantity and quality of resources needed by QC algorithms, and what has been successfully built today. Computer science and engineering research can help QC systems close this gap, by develop the crucial intermediate tool flows and hybrid classical-quantum techniques that can move towards practical quantum utility. My talk will offer some recent advances in these topic areas. More broadly, I will advocate for the role that computer scientists and engineers must play in order for QC to reach its full potential. Biography Margaret Martonosi is the W. M. Addy ’82 University Professor at Princeton University, where she has been on the faculty since 1994. Her research area is computer architecture, with contributions to both classical and quantum hardware and software systems. Martonosi is an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2021, she received computer architecture’s highest honor, the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award, for contributions to the design, modeling, and verification of power-efficient computer architecture. She is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM. Her papers have received numerous long-term impact awards in the SIGARCH, SIGMOBILE, and other communities. She received the 2023 ACM Frances E. Allen Award for Outstanding Mentoring, for her impacts on computer architecture and the broader computing community. 00:00 The Circle Webinar introduction 01:15 QUADRATURE project presentation 03:32 Stay tuned with QUADRATURE 04:08 Introducing Margaret Martonosi 05:29 Presentation by Margaret Martonosi