Trevor Lanting

Trevor Lanting is a senior R&D executive with over 15 years of experience in technology development. He leads D-Wave’s product development organization, which includes teams responsible for software, systems, and cloud services. Trevor, who joined D-Wave in 2008, has previously served as Senior Vice President of Software, Algorithms, and Cloud Services and Vice President of Science. He has helped drive the development and deployment of five generations of annealing quantum computing systems and specializes in connecting fundamental research results and insights with real-world applications, focusing on harnessing quantum mechanics to produce fundamentally new computational capabilities. He holds a BSc in physics and astronomy from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. His graduate work involved pioneering the development of superconducting technology for emerging astrophysics platforms.