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Dr AselSagingalieva

Quantum machine learning scientist
Founder and CEO of EigenOrbit

I solve enterprise problems with quantum technologies, first at Terra Quantum and since October 2026 at EigenOrbit.

Munich, Germany
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Portrait of Asel Sagingalieva
1 000+
citations on Google Scholar
20+
publications, 15 peer‑reviewed
6
US patents, 3 granted and 3 pending
Founder and CEO since October 2026, Luxembourg

EigenOrbit

The independent decision and orchestration layer for quantum and hybrid computing.

eigenorbit.com

EigenOrbit tells enterprises which problems are worth solving on quantum hardware, on which machine, and always against a classical baseline.

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3 November 2026The Quantum Insider

EigenOrbit study compares 12 quantum computing backends

2 November 2026arXiv

eigenkit: a provider‑neutral quantum computing library

30 October 2026Oxford Quantum Society

Hands‑on quantum machine learning workshop

13 October 2026EigenOrbit

eigenkit 1.0 released under the Apache 2.0 licence

Terra Quantum

From junior researcher to Head of Quantum ML Engineering in four years.

Products I built there: QAI Hub, a no‑code quantum ML platform, and TQml, a quantum ML library.

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I architected QAI Hub, the no‑code quantum ML platform in TQ42 Studio, led R&D of the TQml library and led delivery of more than 20 paid enterprise projects in energy, healthcare, manufacturing, materials and finance, each with KPIs agreed with the client.

2024 to 2026Head of Quantum ML Engineering
2022 to 2024Lead Quantum ML Researcher
2021 to 2022Quantum ML Scientist
2019 to 2021Junior Researcher, Quantum Cryptography Group

Results include record 99.21% accuracy on MNIST with 8× fewer parameters and hybrid physics‑informed networks with 21% higher accuracy in 3D fluid simulation.

40%+
lower solar forecasting error
Solar Energy, 2025
±7.6°
blast‑furnace variance, from ±50°
arXiv:2504.12389, 2025
10+
scientists and engineers led
R&D team
6 at EigenOrbit

Six products

1EigenOrbit

eigenkit

Open‑source Python library, one codebase across 8 simulators and 4 hardware routes: IBM, IQM, Amazon Braket and Quandela

pip install eigenkit, Apache 2.0

2EigenOrbit

Benchmarks

One workload measured across 8 simulators and priced across 14 QPUs, every number with its source

3EigenOrbit

Adviser

AI‑assisted decomposition of industrial problems

4EigenOrbit

Router

One API key for QPUs from multiple vendors

5EigenOrbit

Academy

Video courses on quantum computing, from a single qubit to your first running algorithm, with quizzes and a certificate

6EigenOrbit

QUASAR

Research system for validated quantum advantage

All 21 papers on Google Scholar

Research

Hybrid quantum‑classical neural networks applied to industry and medicine.

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My work covers drug response prediction, liver imaging, solar forecasting, steelmaking, turbofan engines, fluid dynamics, laser processing and quantum key distribution. I have given more than 20 invited and contributed talks since 2020, including the ML & Quantum Physics Workshop in Obergurgl and the University of St. Gallen with the ACM Chapter HSG.

I referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review Applied and Machine Learning: Science and Technology. h‑index 12.

  1. 357Quantum machine learning for image classification
    Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2024
  2. 154Hybrid quantum neural network for drug response prediction
    Cancers, 2023
  3. 72Hybrid quantum physics‑informed neural networks for fluid dynamics
    Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2024
  4. 66Benchmarking simulated and physical quantum processing units
    Advanced Quantum Technologies, 2023, front cover
  5. Latesteigenkit: a provider‑neutral quantum computing library
    arXiv preprint, 2026, with Laia Domingo, Daniil Tarpanov and Arsenii Senokosov

Patents and recognition

US patents3 granted, 3 pending
US 12,689,503Method for determining a quantum communication setup, granted 2026
US 12,149,615Long‑distance quantum key distribution, granted 2024
US 11,818,258Method and system for quantum key distribution, granted 2023
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US 2026/0235996Computer‑implemented method and control system to set control parameters
US 2025/0245542Assigning a label to an input vector of features using quantum computation
US 2024/0311670Hybrid quantum‑classical system for classifying images and training method
Recognition
2023Wiley Top Viewed Article, Advanced Quantum Technologies
2023Front cover of Advanced Quantum Technologies 6(8)

MIPT

Three degrees in applied mathematics and physics, admitted without entrance exams.

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Department of General and Applied Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. I was admitted as a national physics olympiad medalist and from 2019 to 2022 taught physics and mathematics at the Phystech International Olympiad School and university courses in informatics and Python.

PhD, 2025Quantum Machine Learning Models, supervised by Prof. Alexey Melnikov
MSc, 2022Quantum Machine Learning Models, supervised by Prof. Alexey Melnikov
BSc, 2020Error Correction Algorithms in Quantum Cryptography, supervised by Dr Dmitry Kronberg

Get in touch

asel@eigenorbit.com

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