Dr. Vlad Gheorghiu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Vlad also works on quantum risk assessment for evolutionQ Inc., Waterloo, Canada. Vlad holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. His current research interests lie in post-quantum cryptography, quantum error correction and resource estimation for realistic implementations of quantum algorithms, entanglement theory, quantum software and quantum architectures, as well as applications of machine learning techniques to the quantum domain.