Dr. Rajibul Islam is an associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and the Institute for Quantum Computing at University of Waterloo, Canada. His current research interests are in quantum simulation and computation, especially their experimental implementation with laser-cooled trapped atomic ions. His research group is developing large scale quantum simulators and employing modern machine learning methods for programming them. Dr. Islam received his early physics training (BSc and MSc) from India, PhD from University of Maryland, and postdoctoral training at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received an Early Career Researcher Award from the government of Ontario, Canada.