Research Interests: Combinatorial Optimization, Operations Research, Quantum Computing, Planning and Scheduling

Research Scientist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

News

• 08/24: Check out this blog article where we used constraint programming to create optimized nurse schedules in Australia
• 07/24: Paper ''Solving QUBOs with a quantum-amenable branch and bound method'' available now on arXiv!
• 07/23: Paper ''Contraint programming models for depth-optimal qubit assignment and SWAP-based routing'' accepted to CP2023 being held in Toronto, Canada
• 06/23: New preprint on constraint programming (CP) models for qubit assignment and SWAP-based routing
• 06/23: I gave an invited talk at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23) in Seattle, WA on the topic of constraint programming for quantum circuit mapping
• 07/22: I received my AWS Machine Learning Speciality certification
• 05/22: I received my AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification; looking forward to doing more combinatorial optimization in the cloud!
• 04/22: I started a new role as Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) within the Quantum Solutions Lab
• 12/21: Abstract "M4OPT: The Multi-Mission Multi-Messenger Observation Planning Toolkit" accepted to AAS239; in collaboration with NASA Goddard and others
• 10/21: Workshop on Constraint Solving and Quantum Computing (QCP2021) was held on Oct. 25th; talks available here.
• 08/21: Journal article accepted to Quantum: "Quantum-accelerated constraint programming"

Publications