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Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer,
Head of Global Technology Applied Research,
Global Head of Quantum Computing
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Marco Pistoia, Ph.D. is a Managing Director, Distinguished Engineer and Prolific Inventor at JPMorganChase, where he is the Head of Global Technology Applied Research and the Global Head of Quantum Computing. He joined JPMorgan Chase in January 2020. He has been the Principal Investigator of numerous novel Quantum Computing algorithms for various use cases, such as optimization, Monte Carlo integration, fraud detection, anomaly detection, and extractive text summarization. Most notably, Pistoia was the Principal Investigator of "Certified Randomness Using a Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor," the first demonstration worldwide of a real-world quantum application beyond the capabilities of any classical computer, published in Nature in April 2025. In addition, in the area of Quantum Cryptography, Pistoia led the team that achieved, for the first time, 800 Gbps secure connection via Quantum Key DIstribution over 100 km. Pistoia's work has focused on how to integrate Post Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Key Distribution for stronger protection of a company's infrastructure against Harvest Now Decrypt Later quantum attacks.
In 2025, both The Quantum Insider and Evident ranked JPMorganChase as the leading bank in Quantum Technology. Evident ranked Pistoia as the No. 1 "Quantum VIP" in the financial industry and defined him as a "visionary" for "assembling banking’s largest quantum team" working on actual industry use cases. Indeed, each publication by Pistoia and his team corresponds to a finance use case solved via a novel quantum algorithm and/or a quantum-inspired classical algorithm, especially in the areas of optimization, AI/ML and GenQAI.
Formerly, Pistoia was a Senior Manager, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Master Inventor at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York, where he managed an international team of researchers responsible for Quantum Computing Algorithms and Applications, particularly in the area of Quantum Chemistry. Dr. Pistoia was at IBM Research for 24 years.
In July 2022, Dr. Pistoia was certified as the 248th most prolific American inventor of all time according to the U.S. Patents and Trademarks Office. He is the inventor of 646 patents, 99 of which are in the areas of Quantum Computing, Quantum Communications, and quantum-inspired algorithms and applications. The rest of his intellectual property is in AI/ML, static program analysis, formal verification methods, and language-based security. The full list of Pistoia's patents is available here.
In March 2023, Dr. Pistoia was one of the 12 technologists included in the HPCwire People to Watch 2023, a 23-year-old program that "recognizes HPC professionals who play leading roles in driving innovation within their particular fields, making significant contributions to society as a whole. Over the course of the program, HPCwire has recognized nearly 200 HPC luminaries who have gone on to achieve extraordinary things." In May 2023, Dr. Pistoia received the Instinet Positive Change: Visionary Markets Choice Award. Also, in June 2024, Dr. Pistoia was featured as one of the most successful Italian industry leaders in the section "Beautiful Minds" of leading Italian newspaper La Repubblica. In September 2007, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, the National Committee of the Italian Presidents of Faculties of Sciences and Technologies, and Confindustria, Italy's leading organization representing all the Italian manufacturing and service companies, presented Pistoia as one of the 70 most successful Italian mathematicians who graduated from an Italian university between the years 1980 and 2000. His biography was published in the book Matematici al Lavoro.
Dr. Pistoia received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from New York University in May 2005. He is the lead author of nine printed books, including Enterprise Java Security (published by Addison-Wesley in English and by Tsinghua University Press in Chinese) and Java 2 Network Security (published by Prentice Hall). He is also a coauthor of the online book Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit. Pistoia's code (with his name officially credited) has been part of the Java SDK documentation since 1999, which means that it has been installed on tens of millions of computers worldwide.
Dr. Pistoia has been the Lead Author and Principal Investigator of numerous scientific articles, which have been published in international journals, such as Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Physics, Nature Communications Physics, Nature Scientific Reports, Nature Partner Journal (npj) on Quantum Information, and Science Advances. He has published and presented at numerous scientific conferences worldwide, including Quantum Information Processing (QIP), Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning (QTML), IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, also known as IEEE Quantum Week), Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC), SPIE Photonics West, NeurIPS, PLDI, and the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. The full list of Dr. Pistoia's publications is available here.
He has also been invited to lecture on Quantum Computing and AI/ML at several research institutions worldwide, including Harvard, MIT, UChicago, Tohoku University (Japan), École Normale Supérieure (France), ETH Zürich (Switzerland), The Royal Society of London (UK), Technion (Israel), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), University of Melbourne (Australia), and DTU (Denmark). The full list of Dr. Pistoia's seminars is avaiable here.
Dr. Pistoia has been serving as a member of the Industry Advisory Council for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Quantum Science Center based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory since April 2020, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) International Technical Advisory Panel (ITAP) since 2023, and the World Economic Forum's Quantum Application Hub evaluation panel since November 2024. He is also a featured industry collaborator of Q-NEXT, a consortium of national laboratories, universities and technology companies, led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and focused on Quantum Communications. Additionally, Pistoia has also been General Chair, Program Chair, and Program Committee Member of numerous conferences, including the IEEE Workshop on Quantum Algorithms for Financial Applications since its inception in 2022.
In the course of his career, Dr. Pistoia has been the recipient of several recognitions, including five ACM/IEEE Distinguished Paper Awards. In April 2019, Dr. Pistoia received two IBM Corporate Awards – a Corporate Award is the highest technical recognition inside IBM. He is the only IBM employee worldwide, on a population of over 350,000 employees, to have received two Corporate Awards in the same year. He has also received an IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award (3 papers selected our of 130), four IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, and four IBM Research Division Awards. As a college student, he received a European Community Erasmus Fellowship Award.
Dr. Pistoia has dual citizenship: American and Italian.
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