Aaron Lott is a Sr. Principal Technical Product & Program manager in HPE Quantum as part of the Emergent Machine Intelligence team at HPE Labs. Aaron is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Maryland, College Park in the institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST).
Prior to joining HPE, Aaron was a Sr. Scientist & Technical Program Manager in the NASA Ames Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) leading R&D in the contractor teams across quantum computing, machine learning, data science and nanodevices. Aaron also served as Director of Technical Product Management at D-Wave, where he led development of the D-Wave 2X, D-Wave 2000Q hardware and software features, open-source software, as well as several research projects exploring algorithms, benchmarking, and development of quantum computers in optimization, machine learning and materials science applications.
Aaron performed post-doctoral research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Aaron earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation at the University of Maryland.
His current interests are in building a quantum supercomputer, via deep integration between classical high-performance computing, multiple quantum hardware modalities and AI techniques to enable the next generation of scientific computing.