Ali Asadi
Senior Quantum Software Developer, Technical Lead at Xanadu
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAli Asadi is a Senior Quantum Software Developer and Technical Lead with 8 years of experience building high-performance computing solutions for quantum and classical workflows. Based in Toronto, he leads performance and compilation efforts at Xanadu, having architected PennyLane-Lightning and contributed to AVX/OMP, CUDA/Kokkos simulators and a hybrid JIT heterogeneous runtime (Catalyst) for scalable quantum-classical execution. His PhD work produced C/C++ frameworks and algorithmic advances for symbolic and arbitrary-precision polynomial systems, reflecting deep expertise in low-level optimization and numerical robustness. Comfortable across HPC, compilers, and simulators, he blends research-driven rigor with production engineering to squeeze performance from diverse architectures. An early contributor to multivariate power series tooling and performance improvements in Maple, he brings a habit of turning math-heavy research into practical, high-throughput software.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science (Scientific Computing & HPC), Doctor of Philosophy Computer Science (Scientific Computing & HPC) at Western UniversityMaster's degree Cryptography, Master's degree Cryptography at Isfahan University of Technology
Persian, English
Github Skills (64)
autodiff10
pytorch10
quantum-chemistry10
quantum-algorithms10
parallel10
python10
llvm10
mpi10
machine-learning10
hpc10
cirq10
distributed-computing10
automatic-differentiation10
openmp10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maliasadi/maliasadi.github.io
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:31 commits, 20 pushes in 2 years 3 months
maliasadi/go-pcinfo
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Go script to get and print the machine information (operating system, network interfaces, ...)
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 months
gonetwork-interfaceoperating-system
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