Simone Severini

Simone Severini is an Italian-born British computer scientist. He is currently Distinguished Engineer at Google, and Professor of Physics of Information at University College London. In 2018 he founded the Quantum Computing program at Amazon Web Services and served as its Director. In 2015 he was the technical co-founder and one of the first scientific advisors of Cambridge Quantum Computing, with Béla Bollobás, Imre Leader, and Fernando Brandão. He co-founded Phasecraft,^[2] with Toby Cubitt, Ashley Montanaro, and John Morton.

Simone Severini
Nationality	Italian, British
Education	University of Bristol (PhD)
Alma mater	University of Florence
Known for	Braunstein-Ghosh-Severini Entropy Induced gravity Quantum contextuality
Awards	Royal Society University Research Fellowship Newton International Fellowship
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Computer Science, Quantum Computing
Institutions	UCL Institute for Quantum Computing
Doctoral advisor	Richard Jozsa[1]
Website	www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapsse

His academic research applied graph and network theory to quantum physics. With Adan Cabello and Andreas Winter, he developed a framework for quantum contextuality, and with Tomasz Konopka, Fotini Markopoulou, and Lee Smolin, he introduced quantum graphity,^[3][4] a random graph model of spacetime. He also co-introduced the Braunstein–Ghosh–Severini entropy.^[5]