Anastasia Marchenkova has been a Quantum Researcher at the Georgia Tech quantum optics and quantum telecommunications lab, a research member of the University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute, early team member and Quantum Engineer at Rigetti Quantum Computing, and is currently working on superconducting qubit quantum processors at Bleximo. Marchenkova has a YouTube channel demystifying quantum computing with the goal to get more scientists and engineers into quantum computing research. She won second place in IBM’s Europe Qiskit Camp (a quantum hackathon competition) for work in improving performance of Qiskit, and first place in IBM’s Asia Qiskit Camp for designing a pulse level programming language for quantum computing. Anastasia is also a software engineer at Pendo.io.