7th International Workshop on
Quantum Compilation
6-7 September 2025
Helsinki, Finland
Invited Speaker : Olivia Di Matteo
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 ScienceAssociate 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.
Abstract: Quantum compilation pipelines incorporate many techniques for gate-level circuit optimization. While gate-level optimization often greatly reduces quantum resources, it can overlook higher-level algorithmic information that simplifies circuit structure by design. Identifying such opportunities, however, remains a largely manual task requiring application-specific insight.
In this talk, I will showcase examples of higher-level optimizations in our recent work on two applications: simulating lattice gauge theories, and Shor’s algorithm. I will demonstrate how software features like quantum just-in-time compilation enable the implementation of such optimizations, and discuss challenges that arise in applying them more broadly. TBA.
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