Joel Pendleton
FounderCo-Founder and CTO at Conductor Quantum
San Francisco, California, United States
FoundedConductor Quantum · YC
About
Joel Pendleton is a co-founder of Conductor Quantum, a quantum computing software company. He previously worked across deep tech startups and research institutions on quantum computing technologies, and left a PhD program at Oxford to start the company.
Joel Pendleton @joelpendleton
We are hiring for new roles at @conductorquant We're building quantum superintelligence: an AI that uses quantum computers to surpass the capabilities of humanity's greatest minds. We are closer to that inflection point than most people realize. Frontier models are approaching https://t.co/5cARKreIhj
Aug 2, 2026 · ♥ 7 · ⇄ 2
Joel Pendleton @joelpendleton
Every quantum device has its own personality. In-context learning is how you deal with that. Ising Calibration 1.5 is an open 31B vision language model that reads QPU diagnostic plots and says what to tune next. It is built on Gemma 4, which already showed strong in-context
Jul 27, 2026 · ♥ 6
Joel Pendleton @joelpendleton
I haven't posted online for a bit about the company but we've been doing some amazing things at @conductorquant. A few things we've done: - We've added a Discover mode into Coda that can be used to help quantum researchers develop new quantum algorithms. It has the ability to https://t.co/4RZ6xhPdUZ
Jul 24, 2026 · ♥ 5 · ⇄ 2
Co-Founder and CTO at Conductor QuantumYC S24
Intro paths
Joel went through Y Combinator (Summer 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Tom Blomfield, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Conductor Quantum's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Joel can intro founders to Conductor Quantum's investors below.
Conductor Quantum's investors · 7
Co-founders at Conductor Quantum
Experience
- Conductor QuantumCo-Founder and CTOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco, CA
- QuantrolOxApplied Researcher2023 — 2024Oxford, England, United Kingdom
- QuantrolOxApplied Researcher2022 — 2023Oxford, England, United Kingdom
- FeynmanCo-Founder and CTO2022 — 2024Oxford, England, United Kingdom
- UnifyML Engineer Intern2022
- C12Research Intern2022Paris, Île-de-France, France
- London Centre for NanotechnologyMSci Research Student2021 — 2022London, England, United Kingdom
- Quantum MotionResearch Intern2021London, England, United Kingdom
- Quantum MotionResearch Intern2020London, England, United Kingdom
Education
- University of OxfordDPhil, Engineering Science2023 — 2024
- Y CombinatorS242024
- UCLMSci, Physics2018 — 2022
Skills & more
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Object DetectionProgrammingDeep LearningElectronicsQuantum DotsQuantum ComputingComputer VisionComputational PhysicsMuMaxKwantElectrical TransportCarbon Nanotubes- Sequence Models — Coursera
- Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
- Structuring Machine Learning Projects — Coursera
- Convolutional Neural Networks — Coursera
- Bloomberg Market Concepts — Bloomberg
- Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization — Coursera
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning — Coursera
From Joel's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended University of Oxford753
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Also attended Y Combinator1,466
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