Marco Pistoia, Ph.D. is a Managing Director, Head of Research and Engineering, and Head of Quantum Computing at JPMorgan Chase, where he received the title of Prolific Inventor. Formerly, he was a Senior Manager, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Master Inventor at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he led the research group responsible for Quantum Computing Algorithms and Applications. He is the inventor of 226 US patents, granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office, and over 200 patent-pending patent applications, 30 of which are in the field of Quantum Computing.Dr. Pistoia received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from New York University in May 2005. He has written over 70 scholarly articles on various aspects of Program Analysis, Language-Based Security, and Quantum Computing. He is the lead author of two books: “Enterprise Java Security” (published by Addison-Wesley in English and by Tsinghua University Press in Chinese) and “Java 2 Network Security” (published by Prentice Hall), both used as textbooks in many universities worldwide.He has been invited to lecture at several research institutions worldwide, including Harvard, MIT, NYU, University of Maryland, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, Stony Brook, University of Texas at Austin, Dartmouth,, Fordham, and Stevens Institute of Technology in the United States, Tohoku University, Keio University, and the National Institute of Informatics in Japan, École Normale Supérieure in France, Dagstuhl School of Informatics and Saarland University in Germany, ETH Zürich in Switzerland, The Royal Society and University College London in the United Kingdom, La Sapienza and Tor Vergata University in Italy, Tel Aviv University, Technion and Ben Gurion University in Israel, University of Porto in Portugal, Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, University of Melbourne in Australia, and Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) in Denmark.Dr. Pistoia has been the recipient of several awards, including five ACM/IEEE Best Paper Awards.