
Get Quantum Ready With IonQ’s Applications Team
Consulting services from IonQ’s quantum scientists and application developers
Get In Touchadvance access to the Latest IonQ hardware
- Be among the first customer workloads on our experimental quantum systems
- Tackle larger problems that demand the most advanced technology
Support from the best researchers in the industry
- Partner with experts in both IonQ hardware and quantum software development
- Jumpstart quantum efforts while ensuring the most value possible from compute investments
Solutions for Every stage of your quantum journey
- Custom engagements anchored in driving enterprise value
- Support for organizations with limited quantum expertise as well as organizations with dedicated quantum efforts already underway
Quantum Progress, Realized
The IonQ application team works with customer teams at all stages of the quantum journey. Our bespoke approach means we can build an engagement that supports your quantum goals, whatever they are.
Many organizations start with a rough outline of the problems they would like to explore with quantum solutions.
If needed, IonQ can help identify this baseline problem set.
IonQ’s application team can either work hand in hand with your experts to build quantum algorithms or build and deliver turnkey solutions to explore how quantum might be able to offer advantage over existing, classical approaches.
If your organization has already experimented with quantum and are looking for a partner to help optimize your algorithms for trapped ions or expand the use of your existing applications to new problem spaces, the IonQ application team can help.
Explore Applications Areas

Some of the most profitable product development applications of classical computation are reaching their limits. Quantum approaches can expand the research and development horizon. Areas of interest for our application team include, but are not limited to:
Computer Vision and Image Recognition
Materials Research
Natural Language Processing
High Tech Electronics
Pharmaceuticals
Human and Computer Interfaces
Geo Exploration
Not Sure how to get started?
IonQ’s Applications team can help
The IonQ Application Team can support you on your quantum journey. Quantum scientists can help you identify, test and build quantum solutions for your business
Meet Some of our Team Members

Masako Yamada
Director of Applications
PhD Physics
“I'm excited to be leading IonQ’s multidisciplinary team working closely with customers to unlock the potential of quantum computing. Whether you're a quantum-curious startup just starting to explore, a government lab with highly customized needs, or an enterprise seeking to integrate quantum applications into a longer-term roadmap, our expert scientists are here to co-develop solutions with you.”
Areas of research interest:
hybrid computing
engineering models
digital twins

Ananth Kaushik
Senior Engineer
PhD Materials Science
Areas of research interest:
Quantum Simulations
Quantum Algorithms for Optimization
Quantum Machine Learning

Sang Hyub Kim
Staff Engineer
MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Areas of research interest:
Machine Learning
Quantum Algorithms
AI Semiconductor Chips

Sayonee Ray
Senior Engineer
PhD Physics
Areas of research interest:
Machine Learning and Numerical Methods
Quantum Algorithms
Quantum Simulations

Luning Zhao
Staff Engineer
PhD Theoretical Chemistry
Areas of research interest:
quantum chemistry
quantum error mitigation
quantum dynamics
quantum machine learning

Jason Iaconis
Senior Engineer
PhD Physics
Areas of research interest:
quantum machine learning
quantum algorithms
quantum simulations

Daiwei Zhu
Senior Engineer
PhD Quantum Computing
Areas of research interest:
Quantum Algorithm Compilation
Quantum Machine Learning
Quantum Algorithms
Interfaces for Quantum Hardware

Evgeny Epifanovsky
Technical Program Manager
PhD Physical Chemistry
Areas of research interest:
applications of quantum computing
computational modeling
quantum algorithms

Josh Goings
Senior Engineer
PhD Theoretical Chemistry
Areas of research interest:
Quantum Chemistry
Quantum Simulation
Education and Outreach

Willie Aboumrad
Senior Scientist
PhD Computational Mathematics
Areas of research interest:
Quantum Algorithms and Applications
Hybrid/High Performance Computing
Mathematical Modeling
Education
Example Application Development Process
Every engagement is customized based on organizational needs, but in general, our co-development process is anchored in several development milestones.
Discovery
Phase 1
Our researchers and quantum developers start every engagement immersing themselves in your business and computational challenges.
Review existing classical libraries and data sets
Align on target outcomes and project goals
Develop project plan
Algorithm Development
Phase 2
The applications team can work hand in hand with your developers or can run experimentation for you to develop novel quantum algorithms to experiment with on IonQ hardware.
Workshops and collaborative working sessions
Algorithm development and refinement
Analysis
Phase 3
With access to the most powerful quantum systems in the world, the applications team can deploy the applications on QPUs to analyze the performance and project forward looking opportunities.
Execute algorithms on IonQ quantum hardware
Performance report and summary
Delivery of software libraries
Application Delivery
Ongoing
Conscious to not end engagements with a software handoff only, the Applications Team remains engaged after application delivery to ensure the successful deployment and use of new quantum algorithms.
Educational support
Expansion opportunities
Target outcome and project goal review
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