17-617 — Programming Quantum Computers — Fall Semester 2022

October 05 / Week 12

Daniel Koch and the Traveling Salesman

Summary

Dr. Daniel Koch will be a guest lecturer. He will present on some of the work he and his team have recently performed. In particular, he will be covering the work done in his paper Gaussian Amplitude Amplification for Quantum Pathfinding.

A Bit on Daniel

Daniel Koch is a Quantum Algorithms theorist currently working for AFRL, Rome NY.  A San Francisco native, Daniel went on to follow a Ph.D. track from SJSU undergrad to CUNY The Graduate Center.  With a dissertation focus on Quantum Walks, he was then brought on board the AFRL Quantum Algorithms team as a postdoc.  Now transitioned as a full government employee, Daniel focuses on broader areas of optimization and combinatorics research within Quantum Algorithms.