Olivia Di Matteo is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering department at UBC and the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Quantum
Software and Algorithms. She obtained her PhD at the University of Waterloo and
Institute for Quantum Computing in 2019 in Physics (Quantum
Information). Following her PhD she worked as a Quantum Information Science
Associate at TRIUMF, and as a Quantum Computing Educator and Researcher at the
Toronto-based quantum startup Xanadu. At UBC she leads the Quantum Software and
Algorithms Research Lab, whose work focuses on designing and implementing
open-source software for quantum compiler tools and physics applications.