Krysta Svore

Krysta M. Svore
Born
Krysta Marie Svore

1979 (age 4546)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Known for
  • Quantum computing
Awards
  • AAAS Fellow (2021)
  • 39 Most Powerful Female Engineers (2018)
  • Kavli Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, Quantum computing
InstitutionsMicrosoft
Thesis Software Tools and Failure Thresholds for Reliable, Scalable, Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation  (2006)
Doctoral advisorAl Aho,
Joseph F. Traub

Krysta Marie Svore (born 1979) is an American computer scientist specializing in quantum computing. She is the Technical Fellow and Vice President of advanced quantum development for Microsoft Azure Quantum.

She previously led the Azure Quantum software team (formerly the Quantum Architectures and Computation group at Microsoft Research) for Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, developing Azure Quantum and bringing the first quantum computers to the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Formerly she served as the Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Quantum Software. Beyond quantum computing, she has also worked on research in machine learning.