Dr Muhammad Usman is a Team Leader and Principal Staff Member at CSIRO’s Data61 which is Australia's National Research Organisation. He has completed his PhD from Purdue University USA and has over 15 years of research and teaching experience in the field of quantum computing with a track-record of over 100 research papers in high-impact international journals and conference proceedings. At CSIRO, Dr Usman played an instrumental role in developing CSIRO/Data61's Quantum Strategy and is leading a team of over 20 researchers working at the forefront of quantum algorithms, quantum software engineering, and quantum security. Dr Usman is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics.Dr Usman serves on the executive editorial boards of two international journals published by the Institute of Physics UK, an executive member (Awards Officer) of the Australian Institute of Physics, a committee member of Standards Australia to help in standardisation of quantum technologies and have honorary Associate Professor positions at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. Dr Usman is the chair of organising committee of the International Conference on Quantum Machine Learning (QTML 2024), has delivered numerous invited talks in international conferences and has been on several panel discussions at national and international meetings. Notably, Dr Usman hosted a panel discussion on Quantum Algorithms and Software at EDTAS Event organised by DSTG which provided key input to a white paper outlining the scope of quantum technologies for Defence applications. He was nominated as Innovative of the Year 2023 Award by Defence Industry, Winner of the State of Victoria iAward 2024, Winner of the Australian Army Quantum Technology Challenges at the Chief of Army Symposiums in three years in a row (2021, 2022 and 2023), Rising Stars in Computational Materials Science by Elsevier in 2020, and Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (Early Career) at the University of Melbourne in 2019. Dr Usman is recipient of prestigious international research fellowships from Fulbright USA (2005-2010) and DAAD Germany in 2010. He is a passionate quantum educator and has been promoting quantum education among school children as part of the CSIRO’s STEM Scientists in Schools program.