My mission is to bring academic insight and new perspectives into the finance sector. With more than 35 years working in Toronto, Boston, London and Abu Dhabi, I understand the challenges and opportunities facing the financial services. As a committed evangelist for education, I foster revolutionary collaborations and programmes that unite the latest academic research with financial services in the pursuit of a safer, more secure and transparent, better automated and more effective industry. At ADGM Academy Research Centre we bring together an ecosystem of academics, financial industry practitioners, regulators and technology experts to unlock the shared potential to improve the financial environment in the UAE and beyond.

The financial industry continues to transform at a rapid pace with new technologies, disruptors, threats and opportunities appearing all the time. Independent research is crucial to be able to understand and utilise this transformation for the benefit of your business, your customers and society in general.

ADGM Academy’s Research Centre provides that understanding through insights from academia. We have built a library of research papers, articles and thought leadership content on our website. And we host educational and networking events to bring you face to face with researchers and thought leaders from around the world.

Dr. Horst Simon is a globally recognized expert in the development of parallel computational methods, with a specialization in sparse matrix algorithms and large-scale eigenvalue problems, boasting 40 years of experience in the sector. He recently became the inaugural Director of ADIA Lab in 2022, a leading institution dedicated to pioneering research and innovation in the field of computational and data science. Before this, he held various prominent positions at Berkeley Lab since 1996, significantly contributing to energy innovation and fostering close collaborations between national labs and the industry. Dr. Simon has also worked with esteemed organizations such as Boeing, SGI, NASA Ames, and renowned universities like Stony Brook and UC Berkeley. His commendable work has earned him prestigious recognitions including two Gordon Bell Prizes in 2009 and 1988, the ACM SC Test of Time Award, and the SIAM CSE Career Award. He is a significant figure in the high-performance computing community, involved in the biannual publication of the TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers and is a distinguished SIAM Fellow.

Dr. Heike Riel is IBM Fellow, Head of the Science & Technology, and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe & Africa. She leads the Science of Quantum & Information Technologies department aiming to create scientific and technological breakthroughs in Quantum Computing and Technologies, Physics of Artificial Intelligence, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and to explore new directions to computing. She is a distinguished expert in semiconductor electronic and optoelectronic devices, nanotechnology and nanosciences and focuses her research on advancing the frontiers of information technology through the physical sciences. She received the master’s in physics from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the PhD in physics from University of Bayreuth and an MBA from Henley Business College. She has authored more than 155 peer-reviewed publications and filed more than 50 patents. She has received several prestigious honors, e.g., elected member of the Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences and the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences; she was awarded the APS David Adler Lectureship Award in the Field of Materials Physics, the Applied Physics Award of the Swiss Physical Society, and the 2022 IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award. She was honored as Fellow of the American Physical Society, and with an honorary doctorate by Lund University. In February 2022 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Koch is Professor for Software and Algorithms for Discrete Optimization at TU-Berlin and head of the Applied Algorithmic Intelligence Methods and the Digital Data and Information for Society, Science, and Culture departments at the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). He has worked in several areas, especially the planning of infrastructure networks, chip verification, mathematical education, and integer optimization. From 2000-2020 he led the efforts on developing Integer Programming Solvers at ZIB, including the SCIP development.

From 2008-2014 he was the coordinator of the FORNE project, an industry collaboration project regarding gas transportation involving five universities and two research institutes. The project received the 2016 EURO Excellence in Practice Award of the European OR Society.

From 2013-2019 he was head of the GasLab and the SynLab within the Research Campus MODAL (Mathematical Optimization and Data Analysis Laboratory). The project Optimized Execution of Dispatching became finalist of the 2020 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award.

Currently, the work is focused on developing high-performance parallel methods for solving large-scale structured optimization problems. This includes high-performance solvers for Steiner Tree Problems in Graphs (STPG) and Quadratic Unconstraint Binary Optimization (QUBO).

Casey is the Quantum Algorithms and Applications Team Lead at Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC). He is a respected expert in quantum algorithms and the theory of quantum systems. He has over 15 years' experience working in the quantum technologies sector, as both a researcher in the deep tech industry and an academic, pioneering quantum algorithms for both optical and solid-state architectures. The key question that drives Casey's work is what difficult problems can a quantum computer solve? Which areas of industry could benefit from the advantage that a quantum computer is expected to provide?

Dr James A. Grieve is the Senior Director of Quantum Communications at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi. Since gaining his PhD from the University of Bristol, Dr Grieve has accumulated a decade of experience in experimental quantum optics, including industrialization activities in quantum key distribution. His team in Abu Dhabi builds practical, industry-focused systems to bring quantum-backed security to the wider market, with a activities in quantum key distribution, quantum random number generators and satellite-based quantum communications.

Ruslan Shaydulin is a quantum algorithms researcher at the Global Technology Applied Research center at JPMorgan Chase. Ruslan’s research centers on applying quantum algorithms to classical problems, with a focus on optimization and machine learning. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Ruslan was a Maria Goeppert Mayer fellow at Argonne National Laboratory.

Dr Tobias Haug is a Senior researcher on quantum algorithms at TII in Abu Dhabi. He received his PhD from the Centre for Quantum Technology in Singapore in 2021. During his PhD he worked at NTT in Japan and Entropica Labs in Singapore. After his PhD he was a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London.

Dimitri has worked in the IT and cybersecurity industry since the early 90s, with XS4ALL / KPN, PostNL, Telegraaf and others, building complete internet environments, digital newspapers, managing networks, security systems and developing new cloud services, platforms and apps. After a decade of working in several startups Dimitri joined ABN AMRO in 2018 where he initiated and managed ABN AMRO’s Quantum Program to define and design the potential of Quantum technology for finance. Dimitri is the main author of ABN AMRO’s Key Orchestration Protocol patent, a unique key management system designed to be Quantum resilient and makes use of a hybrid combination of Quantum and non-Quantum technology in the field of cybersecurity.

Dimitri is currently the Chair/CEO and one of the founders of Quantum Gateway Foundation where he brings a broad skillset of being a technology wizard, architect and consultant, and has a good level of managerial, business and presenting skills.

João Doriguello did his PhD at the University of Bristol from 2016 to 2021 under the supervision of Prof. Ashley Montanaro and since 2021 is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in the National University of Singapore working with Prof. Miklos Santha.