Tl;dr:
Hi - We are Brandon and Joel! We are building Conductor Quantum.
CEO, Brandon – Brandon developed AI for Quantum Computing in Silicon during his PhD at Oxford. Over the past four years, Brandon has worked with four top quantum research institutions on software for quantum device control and has four publications, including one in Nature.
CTO, Joel – Joel has shipped software at four deep tech companies and has worked with a series of quantum devices ranging from carbon nanotubes to superconducting circuits. Joel studied Physics at UCL and dropped out of his PhD at Oxford to start Conductor Quantum.
During Joel’s PhD at Oxford, he launched Feynman.ai— an AI science research assistant— with Brandon, which they bootstrapped to 300 signups within a month of launch.
→ Currently, quantum engineers spend days, sometimes weeks, manually configuring silicon chips to create a single quantum bit (qubit), analogous to a bit in a classical computer.
→ We need millions, if not billions, of qubits to make a useful quantum computer.
Automation software to create qubits at scale is vital to realize this goal.
Everyone will have access to a quantum computer from their desk.
We’ve been working on the problem of quantum device control individually for the past 4 years as part of our degrees and work experience. Brandon (4 years full-time), Joel (2 years full-time, 2 years part-time).