Keynote Speaker - Catherine McGeoch - Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering - Purdue University

Catherine McGeoch (recently retired), has been a member of the Benchmarking Team at D-Wave for about a decade. Prior to that she was on the faculty of Amherst College for about three decades. Her research interests are in developing methodologies for empirical study of algorithms and heuristics, with recent focus on quantum annealing platforms. She was a founding co-chair of the DIMACs Challenges, and of the ALENEX meetings on algorithm engineering and experiments, and is past Editor in Chief of the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics. She is the author of two books, one on experimental algorithmics and one on adiabatic quantum computing and quantum annealing.