Nader Khammassi is Research Scientist at Intel Labs. Previously, he was a post-doctoral researcher at QuTech, Delft University of Technology, where his work included the design of the QX quantum computer simulator and the OpenQL quantum programming framework.

He obtained his Electrical Engineering degree from the National School of Engineering in Brest (ENIB) in France, and he received his PhD cum laude in 2014 for his research on High Performance Computing for Multicore Architectures at the National Engineering School of Advanced Technology (ENSTA) in Brittany, France. He worked as a research engineer at Thales Airborne Systems on high-performance signal processing applications.