Mert EsencanCEO at Icosa ComputingSpeaker
Profile
Mert Esencan founded Icosa Computing to address challenges in discrete variable optimization. Icosa focuses on developing modeling and hyperparameter tuning software that integrates with advanced physics-inspired solvers, improving applications such as portfolio optimization and generative AI reasoning in finance. Mert completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Stanford University, with a focus on physics, computer science, and finance, before moving to University of Oxford to pursue a PhD in quantum information processing. Prior to founding Icosa, Mert worked as a developer at the emerging tech team of Fidelity Investments.
Agenda Sessions
Combinatorial Reasoning: Enhanced LLM performance and explainability on complex tasks with quantum-inspired optimization
, 10:50View Session