QOSF Announces the Winner of the 2020 Wittek Quantum Prize for Open Source Software

The Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF) in collaboration with the Unitary Fund reviewed over 50 nominations for the best contribution to open source quantum software and has awarded the 2020 Wittek Quantum Prize for Open Source Software to Roger Luo, PhD student at University of Waterloo and Perimeter Institute, for his work on Yao.jl and its surrounding ecosystem in the Julia programming language. Yao.jl is one of the fastest free quantum simulators available and has a surrounding ecosystem that consists of more than 50 repositories under the umbrella of the Quantum-BFS organization. In additional to Yao.jl, Roger has made over 3000 open source contributions across dozens of repositories. For more on this announcement, you can view the announcement from QOSF here, and a video interview with Roger on YouTube here.

February 1, 2021