Geordie Rose

Geordie founded D­-Wave, the world’s first quantum computing company, and was the CEO of Kindred, the world’s first robotics company to use reinforcement learning in a production environment. He has sold quantum computers and robots that learn to Google, NASA, Lockheed Martin, The Gap, and several US government agencies. He received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of British Columbia in 2000. He is an inventor on 54 granted US patents and a co­-author on a large number of published scientific articles, including two Nature papers, more than a dozen PRLs and PRBs, two NIPS and one ACML paper. He was named the 2011 Canadian Innovator of the Year, was named to Foreign Policy Magazine’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2013, won the 2014 Canadian Technology Leader award, has won two Canadian national wrestling championships and is a member of the McMaster University Hall of Fame, won the 2010 NAGA world championships in Brazilian Jiu­-Jitsu in both gi and no-­gi categories, won the BC provincial A beach volleyball championship with Jason Hall in 2003, for a short time held the Guinness Book of World Records world record for the most yogurt eaten in one minute, was a past holder of British Columbia powerlifting records in deadlift, bench press and total for the 105kg masters division, and has completed eight half marathons and two full marathons.