Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems.
[3] McGeoch graduated summa cum laude from Butler University in 1981.
In 2013, she published one of the first detailed benchmarks of D-Wave's Quantum Computer versus conventional software.
Her work was featured in an Amherst College press release and was subsequently cited in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist and The New Yorker.
[5][6][7][8] Starting in May 2014 she took a leave of absence from Amherst College to work full-time for D-Wave.