Mariia Mykhailova

Principal Software Engineer, Advanced Quantum Development

Mariia Mykhailova is a principal software engineer at the Advanced Quantum Development team at Microsoft. She works on developing software for fault-tolerant quantum computation. Mariia is also a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University, teaching Introduction to Quantum Computing since 2020, and the author of O’Reilly book “Q# Pocket Guide”. In her spare time, she writes problems for programming competitions and creates puzzles.

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Mentoring capstone projects at the University of Washington

September 6th, 2023
In this blog post we share our experience of mentoring two capstone projects as part of the "Accelerating Quantum-Enabled Technologies" program at the University of Washington.

Festivus: Azure Quantum Feats of Strength

December 23rd, 2022
Azure Quantum team celebrates Festivus by listing Azure Quantum feats of strength - their favorite features and tools.

Teaching Quantum Computing with Q# and Azure Quantum at Northeastern University

December 2nd, 2022
This fall I taught "Introduction to quantum computing" at Northeastern University. In this post, I share my experience teaching it and describe the kinds of programming assignments the course offered.

Q# Holiday Calendar 2022

November 7th, 2022
Q# Holiday Calendar is a yearly blogging event in which every day in December one awesome community member writes a blog post about Q# and/or Azure Quantum. Check out the previous years' blogs and join the 2022 edition!

Microsoft Quantum is hiring software engineers and software researchers!

October 21st, 2022
Learn about the latest job postings for quantum software engineers and researchers at Microsoft Quantum.

Interning at Microsoft Quantum – 2023

October 19th, 2022
We announce Microsoft Quantum research, chemistry, and program management internships for summer 2023 and share some completed intern projects from this summer.

Azure Quantum challenge at QCHack 2022: Recap

May 2nd, 2022
This April we partnered with IonQ and Quantinuum to offer one of the technical challenges at Quantum Coalition Hackathon 2022. Meet the challenge winners and learn about their projects!

Microsoft/IonQ challenge at iQuHACK 2022: Recap

April 18th, 2022
This January we partnered with IonQ to offer one of the technical challenges at iQuHACK – MIT’s annual quantum hackathon. Meet the challenge winners and learn about their projects!

Announcing Azure Quantum challenge at QCHack 2022

March 24th, 2022
We are excited to announce that Microsoft along with our partners IonQ and Quantinuum will join Quantum Coalition Hack, hosted during the week of April 4-10! Learn more about the challenge we'll be offering and the best ways to prepare for it.

A quantum circuit logical puzzle

December 15th, 2021
This blog offers you a quantum logical puzzle: you are given the outline of a simple quantum circuit and a set of clues about it, and you have to complete the circuit based on the clues.