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Wolfram Innovator Award

Wolfram technologies have long been a major force in many areas of industry and research. Leaders in many top organizations and institutions have played a major role in using computational intelligence and pushing the boundaries of how the Wolfram technology stack is leveraged for innovation across fields and disciplines.

We recognize these deserving recipients with the Wolfram Innovator Award, which is awarded at the Wolfram Technology Conferences around the world.

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2024

Andrew Lütken

Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Areas: Mathematics, Modeling Condensed Matter Systems Using Tools From String Theory, Quantum Computing, Quantum Field and String Theory

After obtaining his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, Andrew Lütken worked at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Nordita), the University of Oxford, Institut de Fisica d’Altes Energies (IFAE) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Oslo, where he has been a professor of physics for 30 years. He is now the executive director of the Quantum Computing Lab at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi.

Lütken has used Wolfram extensively in particle physics, quantum field theory and the analysis of ground state strings (the construction and classification of Calabi–Yau manifolds). Together with the late Graham Ross (University of Oxford), he has shown that a new type of “modular” symmetry appears in nature (in the quantum Hall effect). He has recently built the first quantum computing lab in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, including a chip foundry that has fabricated the first quantum computers in this part of the world.

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