My name is Francesco Scala, I’m 26 y.o. and I’m a PhD student in Quantum Machine Learning at Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy.
Experience
Full-Time
Mar ‐ May 2024 | Visiting PhD @ IBM Research Europe , Zurich 🇨🇭
2021-present | PhD in Quantum Machine Learning @ University of Pavia, Pavia 🇮🇹
Part-Time
Oct 2022-present | Teaching assistant - General Physics @ University of Pavia, Pavia 🇮🇹
Jul 2022-Dec 2022 | Intern @ Quantum Computing Lab CINECA , Casalecchio di Reno 🇮🇹
Extracurricular achievements
- 2nd place QHack2024 : Bridging the gap [paper] [Github]
- 1st place at ETH Quantum Hackathon 2023 : IQM Challenge [Github]
- IBM Certified Associate Developer
- 2nd place at MIT iQuHack : Microsoft/IonQ challenge [Github]
Skills
- Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning
- Quantum programming: Pennylane (with JAX ), Qiskit , AWS Braket