The townhall meeting is open to all registered attendees of ICML’20 and is an opportunity to connect, ask questions and provide feedback to the ICML president, board, ICML’20 and ’21 general and program chairs. It will start with an overview summarizing this year’s effort, plans for next year, and then an open exchange - questions/feedback can be typed in chat or by raising a hand on Zoom with live responses.
Quantum Machine Learning : Prospects and Challenges

Iordanis Kerenidis
We will review recent work on Quantum Machine Learning and discuss the prospects and challenges of applying this new exciting computing paradigm to machine learning applications.
Panelists
Julia Kempe![]() |
Krysta Svore![]() |
Ronald de Wolf![]() |
Speaker Bio
Iordanis Kerenidis (CNRS and QC Ware) received his Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. After a two-year postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris as a permanent researcher. He has been the coordinator of a number of EU-funded projects including an ERC Grant, and he is the founder and director of the Paris Centre for Quantum Computing. His research is focused on quantum algorithms for machine learning and optimization, including work on recommendation systems, classification and clustering. He is currently working as the Head of Quantum Algorithms Int. at QC Ware Corp.


