The Quantum AI Series features exclusive interviews of the global innovators shaping the future of quantum computing. In Episode 3, Maëva Ghonda, the founder and chair of the Quantum AI Institute, interviews Dr. John Martinis, master inventor and CEO of Quantala. Quantala's mission is to help build a fully functional quantum computer by identifying and solving technical roadblocks.

Dr. John Martinis has been focusing on quantum computing since the late 1990s. He did pioneering experiments in superconducting qubits in the mid-1980s for his PhD thesis. From 2014 to 2020, Dr. John Martinis worked at Google to build a useful quantum computer, culminating in a quantum supremacy experiment in 2019. In 2014, Dr. John Martinis was awarded the London Prize in Low temperature physics for his work in this field. And, this year, Dr. Martinis was awarded the John Bell prize.