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Bert de Jong is the deputy director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator, which is part of the National Quantum Initiative. In addition,de Jong is the team director of the Accelerated Research for Quantum Computing (ARQC) Team AIDE-QC, funded by DOE ASCR, focused on developing software stacks, algorithms, and computer science and applied mathematics solutions for chemical sciences and other fields on near-term quantum computing devices. He is also a co-PI on the ARQC team FAR-QC (led out of Sandia). He is the LBNL lead for the BES QIS project (led out of PNNL), where he is focusing on new approaches for encoding wave functions and embedding quantum systems. Prior to this, de Jong was the director of the LBNL Quantum Algorithms Team QAT4Chem.