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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Inside the Quantum Katas, part 1

December 2nd, 2020
Learn about the internal structure of the Quantum Katas - our collection of self-paced programming exercises on quantum computing - and their most important component – the testing harnesses that provide the learner immediate feedback on their solutions.

Interning at Microsoft Quantum – 2021

November 17th, 2020
We announce Microsoft Quantum internships for summer 2021, share some fun facts about the internships of the summer past, and highlight some of the things that are going to be new next summer.

Q# Advent Calendar 2020

October 27th, 2020
Q# Advent Calendar is a blogging event in which every day in December one awesome community member writes a blog post about Q#. We hosted one in 2018 and in 2019; let's do it again!

Celebrating our open source community with Hacktoberfest

October 2nd, 2020
It is October, and this means it's time for Hacktoberfest - an annual celebration of open source! Meet our newest maintainer and learn how to participate in the Quantum Hacktoberfest.

Interning at Microsoft Quantum

January 16th, 2020
We describe internships at the Microsoft Quantum team, the differences between research and engineering internships, and some of the projects done by our past interns.

Festivus: Q# Feats of Strength

December 23rd, 2019
Q# team celebrates Festivus by listing Q# strengths - their favorite language features and tools.

New Tutorials: Learn the Basic Concepts of Quantum Computing

December 5th, 2019
We present the new set of introductory tutorials on the basic concepts of quantum computing, complete with programming exercises in Python and Q#.

Teaching Quantum Computing with Q#

December 4th, 2019
This winter our team had an exciting opportunity to teach an introductory course on quantum computing at the University of Washington, led by Krysta Svore. This post is an overview of the course and its results.

Q# Advent Calendar 2019

November 14th, 2019
Last year we hosted the first Q# Advent Calendar - a blogging event in which every day in December one awesome community member writes a blog post about Q#. I really enjoyed reading last year's entries, so let's do it again!

Grace Hopper Celebration 2019: Recap

October 16th, 2019
Grace Hopper Celebration 2019 – the world’s largest gathering of women technologists – featured several sessions on quantum computing as part of the "Emerging Technologies" track. We presented one of these sessions, a workshop titled “Introduction to Quantum Computing with Grover`s Search". In this post we share the highlights of the trip.