Dr. Shesha Raghunathan
Shesha Raghunathan is currently Strategy Lead for IBM Quantum in India. He is responsible for quantum strategy for India both in quantum hardware deployment and its expansion, as well as scaling up quantum adoption. Further he is responsible for engaging with the broader ecosystem including academia, industry, research labs, startups and developers.
Previously, he was Global Lead for Startup Ecosystem responsible for engaging with startups worldwide where he delivered novel go-to-market functionalities like Qiskit Functions. Prior to that, he was part of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Timing analysis development team and worked on various aspect of analysis including noise, timing abstraction, reporting along with analytics and machine learning.
Shesha got his PhD in Quantum Computing from University of Southern California, LA in 2010. He joined IBM in 2011. His current research interests include near-term quantum algorithms, circuit optimization and HPC-Quantum.
