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Ismael Faro

President @ANFAIA · Quantum + AI research · ex‑IBM Distinguished Engineer · co‑creator of Qiskit

about

Working on AI agents and foundational research into how they're built and used. Previously architected IBM Quantum Experience and co‑created Qiskit, the open‑source quantum computing framework. Based in New York.

quantum + ai

Years building the software stack connecting quantum computing and machine learning — from circuit transpilation to LLMs that write quantum code.

Qiskit

framework, 1800+ citations

Open-source framework for quantum computing. Co-creator and long-time architect.

Qiskit Code Assistant

LLM for quantum code

Training LLMs to generate quantum computing code; HumanEval benchmark for quantum generative models.

Circuit synthesis via RL

arXiv 2405.13196

Practical, efficient quantum circuit synthesis and transpiling using reinforcement learning.

Quantum-centric supercomputing

Future Gen. Comp. Systems, 2024

Perspective on challenges and future directions for quantum + HPC in materials science.

research & publications

Full list on Google Scholar. Selected work:

Plus 10+ US patents on quantum circuit compilation, pulse optimization, and adaptive execution (with Jay Gambetta and others).

anfaia

ANFAIA — Asociación FARO para la Aceleración de la IA. Co-founder and president, driving AI acceleration and research initiatives since Nov 2024. anfaia.org

open source

Selected repos — full list on github.com/ismaelfaro

vr-video

Svelte · 20★

360° video viewer.

rust-quantum-simulator

Rust

Basic quantum simulator for classical developers.

py-quantum-simulator

Python

Quantum simulator for classical developers.

qiskit-machine-learning

Python

Quantum machine learning toolkit.

speaker events

contact

LinkedIn · GitHub · Google Scholar