Alexander McCaskey

Alexander McCaskey is a Research Scientist with the Beyond Moore Computing Group within the Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA. He leads the Systems and Software research theme within the ORNL Quantum Computing Institute. His research is focused on programming models, compilers, and languages for heterogeneous quantum-classical computing. He is the Lead for a number of open-source quantum software projects, including the XACC system-level quantum framework and the qcor quantum-classical C++ compiler platform. McCaskey received a B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Tennessee in 2010, and an M.Sc. degree in physics from the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 2014. Contact him at mccaskeyaj@ornl.gov.