Krysta Marie Svore (born 1979) is an American computer scientist specializing in

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. She is the Technical Fellow and Vice President of advanced quantum development for

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. She previously led the Azure Quantum software team (formerly the Quantum Architectures and Computation group at

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) for

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, developing Azure Quantum and bringing the first quantum computers to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Formerly she served as the Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Quantum Software. Beyond quantum computing, she has also worked on research in

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Education and career

Svore is originally from the

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area. She majored in mathematics at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, and became intrigued by the possibilities of quantum computing through a junior-year seminar on cryptography given by

Andrew Wiles Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, proving Ferma ...

, in which she learned of the ability of quantum computers using

Shor's algorithm Shor's algorithm is a quantum algorithm for finding the prime factors of an integer. It was developed in 1994 by the American mathematician Peter Shor. It is one of the few known quantum algorithms with compelling potential applications and strong ...

to break the

RSA cryptosystem The RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) cryptosystem is a public-key cryptosystem, one of the oldest widely used for secure data transmission. The initialism "RSA" comes from the surnames of Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who publicly ...

. She completed her Ph.D. in 2006 at

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, with highest distinction, under the joint supervision of

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and Joseph F. Traub. Her dissertation was ''Software Tools and Failure Thresholds for Reliable, Scalable, Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation''. She joined Microsoft Research in 2006, initially working on problems in

but later focusing more heavily on her work with quantum computing. Svore also serves on the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee and the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee for

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Recognition

Svore was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the

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. She was named a

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in 2023, "for advancing the development of software architectures and empowering quantum scientists through leadership to design practical and impactful algorithms". In 2022, Svore was elected as a fellow of the Washington State Academy of Sciences for "advancing the field of computing through the development of new programming languages and algorithms for quantum computing, including pioneering work on arithmetic and machine learning operations on quantum computers, and for foundational contributions to the integration of machine learning into the development of scalable methods for web search." She was named one of the 39 Most Powerful female engineers by Business Insider in 2018.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Svore, Krysta 1979 births Living people American computer scientists American women computer scientists Princeton University alumni Columbia University alumni Microsoft Research people Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows of the American Physical Society