Our own Luis Serrano (UM Math PhD 2010) will be speaking Monday November 15 at Noon in the Invitations to Industry seminar, jointly sponsored by the Erdos Institute.
Don’t miss Luis! He’s an incredibly helpful resource for our PhD students and post-docs interested in *research* positions in industry. He himself is a quantum machine learning researcher at Zapata Computing, after stints as a educator in industry (for both Udacity, then Apple) and a researcher (You Tube, Google). His current company is now hiring (and hiring interns) for their Boston and Toronto locations, though they also have remote options.
Zoom Link: In order to access this seminar, you will need to be logged into your umich Zoom account. Click here.

Luis Serrano, PhD
- Luis’s Linked In Profile
- Luis’s You tube channel
- Luis’s Serrano Academy homepage
- Luis’s recent book on machine learning
- Luis’s (somewhat dated) profile on our website
- Serrano defended his PhD thesis, Noncommutative Schur P-Functions and the Shifted Plactic Monoid, under the direction of Sergey Fomin in 2010. His first job post-PhD was as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Quebec, Montreal.
Zapata Computing, Inc.
Our scientists help industry-leading companies understand — and capitalize on — the capabilities of quantum computing today, and the possibilities of quantum computing tomorrow. With Fortune Global 1000 companies, we are developing solutions for a wide range of industries including chemistry, logistics, finance, oil and gas, aviation, pharmaceuticals and materials. Zapata’s quantum platform Orquestra(R) combines a powerful software platform and quantum algorithm libraries to deliver real-world advances in computational power for applications — particularly in machine learning, optimization and chemistry. Orquestra enables users to compose quantum workflows and orchestrate their execution across classical and quantum technologies.”