Keeper Layne Sharkey
Director
Quantum Algorithms at ODE, L3C
USA
Biography
Keeper L. Sharkey is a quantum chemist and machine learning consultant working through ODE, L3C which she founded in December of 2018. She holds a BS in both mathematics and chemistry from the University of Arizona (UA) - 2010. As a National Science Foundation graduate research fellow, she completed her PhD in Chemical Physics (2015) also from UA. During her academic career at UA, she published 26 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. She has been cited over 200 times, her publication H-index is 10 (i10-index is also 10), and she has been serving as a peer-reviewer of reputed Journals. Her postdoctoral faculty appointment at Washington State University in 2016/17 was focused on deriving algorithms for learning physical properties of metallic hydrogen. She has also spent time machine learning sequential marketing programs in the insurance and FinTech sector. She is highly interested in applying her expertise of atomic and molecular quantum physics to Decision Intelligence as well as contributing to the chemical design of quantum computers.
Research Interest
Quantum chemist and machine learning