Olivia Di Matteo is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at UBC and the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Quantum Software and Algorithms. She obtained her PhD at the University of Waterloo and Institute for Quantum Computing in 2019 in Physics (Quantum Information). Following her PhD she worked as a Quantum Information Science Associate at TRIUMF, and as a Quantum Computing Educator and Researcher at the Toronto-based quantum startup Xanadu. At UBC she leads the Quantum Software and Algorithms Research Lab, whose work focuses on designing and implementing open-source software for quantum compiler tools and physics applications.