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Alex McCaskey is a quantum computing software architect at NVIDIA, and manager of the Quantum Computing Architecture and Algorithms team. His work is focused on programming models, compilers, and languages for heterogeneous quantum-classical computing. He is the lead architect for the CUDA Quantum project, a novel quantum-classical programming model in C++ and Python enabling performant workflows on heterogeneous architectures. He has previously led the development of the XACC system-level quantum framework and the QCOR quantum-classical C++ compiler platform. He received B.Sc. degrees in 2010 in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Tennessee, and a M.Sc. degree in physics from the Virginia Polytechnic and State University in 2014.