Marco Pistoia

Senior Vice President of Industry Relations at IonQ

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Marco Pistoia, Ph.D. is Senior Vice President of Industry Relations at lonQ. Previously, he served as the Head of Global Technology Applied Research and the Global Head of Quantum Computing at JPMorganChase, where he was a Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer and Prolific Inventor. Before joining JPMorganChase in January 2020, he was a Senior Manager, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Master Inventor at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he managed an international team of researchers responsible for Quantum Computing Algorithms and Applications, particularly in the area of Quantum Chemistry. Dr. Pistoia was at IBM Research for 24 years.

In July 2022, Dr. Pistoia was certified as the 248th most prolific American inventor of all time according to the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office. He is the inventor of almost 700 patents, with more than 100 in the areas of Quantum Computing, Quantum Communications, Quantum Cryptography, and/or Quantum-Inspired Algorithms. The rest of his intellectual property is in Al/ML, static program analysis, formal verification methods, and language-based security.
Dr. Pistoia is the author of ten books and over 200 scholarly articles, including 13 papers on Quantum Computing published in the Nature portfolio of journals. Most recently, he was the Principal Investigator of the first real-world Quantum Computing application unattainable on any classical supercomputer, published in Nature in April 2025.

Dr. Pistoia received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from New York University in May 2005. He has been serving as a member of the Industry Advisory Council for the U.S. Department of Energy's Quantum Science Center based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since April 2020, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) International Technical Advisory Panel (ITAP) since 2023, and the World Economic Forum's Quantum Application Hub Evaluation Panel since November 2024. He is also a featured industry collaborator of Q-NEXT, a consortium of national laboratories, universities and technology companies, led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and focused on Quantum Communications. Additionally, Pistoia has been General Chair, Program Chair, and Program Committee Member of numerous conferences, including the lEEE Workshop on Quantum Algorithms for Financial Applications since its inception in 2022.