Srinjoy Ganguly - Quantum Computing with Silq Programming: Get up and running with quantum computing with the simplicity of this new high-level programming language

Get up and running with quantum computing with the simplicity of this new high-level programming language

Srinjoy Ganguly

Thomas Cambier

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I dedicate this book to God, my Guru, to my family, my teachers and tutors, and to my amazing friends for their consistent support and encouragement throughout the writing process.

Srinjoy Ganguly

I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Martin Vechev for giving me the opportunity to write my Master's thesis at the SRI lab at ETH Zurich, and Benjamin Bichsel for his help on implementing quantum algorithms with Silq.

Thomas Cambier

Srinjoy Ganguly is the founder and CEO of AdroitERA, an EdTech firm, and possesses a Master's in quantum computing technology from the Technical University of Madrid, and a Master's in artificial intelligence from the University of Southampton. He has over 4 years' experience in quantum computing and 5 years' experience in machine learning and deep learning. He currently leads the Quantum Machine Learning (QML) study space at QWorld. He has given an expert talk on QML at IEEE SPS. His research interests include QML, Quantum Image Processing, Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP), machine learning, and deep learning.

Thomas Cambier is a French programmer and software developer. After studying top-level mathematics, physics, and computer science at Ecole Polytechnique, France's leading engineering school, he obtained a Master's degree in computer science at ETH Zrich on a broad range of subjects going from algorithmics and cryptography to object-oriented programming. Deeply interested in the promising possibilities resulting from quantum computing, he wrote his Master's thesis on the design of quantum algorithms with Silq, a brand-new high-level quantum language created by a research group at ETH Zrich.

Alberto Maldonado is doing his Ph.D. on QML in computer science at the Center for Computing Research, IPN, Mexico. At his institute, he has collaborated with the Fermilab and CERN research centers for the GeantV project. Alberto has participated in different events, such as Xanadu's Qhack, and was a mentee of QOSF's mentor program. He is passionate about using new technologies and paradigms, such as quantum computing, and is self-taught and diligent.