Pooja Rao is a senior quantum applications engineer at NVIDIA. She holds a Ph.D. in computational and applied mathematics from Stony Brook University. Prior to NVIDIA, Pooja held postdoctoral fellowships at University of Illinois, Stony Brook University, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley where she worked on a number of applications ranging from fluid dynamics to quantum computing. Pooja also has experience as a quantum algorithms researcher at Agnostiq.