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Tim Costa

Vice president and general manager of quantum; leads the industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the CUDA-X product line, NVIDIA

  • Vice president and general manager of quantum; leads the industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the CUDA-X product line, NVIDIA12

Timothy (Tim) Costa is vice president and general manager of quantum at NVIDIA, the title used in NVIDIA's September 2026 announcement of CUDA-Q Logical, an addition to the open-source CUDA-Q platform for developing fault-tolerant quantum computing applications. NVIDIA's blog describes Costa as heading the company's industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the NVIDIA CUDA-X product line, after several leadership positions at NVIDIA. An earlier NVIDIA developer blog profile describes Costa running product management for HPC software, covering the NVIDIA HPC SDK, HPC compilers and math libraries. Before NVIDIA, Costa worked at Intel as a performance library architect and HPC application engineer.123

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Vice president and general manager of quantum; leads the industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the CUDA-X…
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NVIDIA
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Career

Tim Costa holds a PhD in mathematics from Oregon State University, with research on numerical methods for fluid flow in stochastic or evolving porous media. At Intel, Costa worked as a performance library architect and HPC application engineer and led enabling efforts for computational fluid dynamics applications.3

At NVIDIA, Costa first led product management for HPC software, covering the NVIDIA HPC SDK, HPC compilers and math libraries along with programming-model strategy and standards work. NVIDIA's blog now describes Costa as heading the industrial engineering and quantum verticals and the CUDA-X product line, and its author page gives the title vice president and general manager for industrial and computational engineering.32

Quantum computing

In NVIDIA's September 2026 announcement of CUDA-Q Logical, Costa is quoted as vice president and general manager of quantum, describing the addition as an open platform for designing fault-tolerant quantum systems built on logical qubits. CUDA-Q Logical extends the open-source CUDA-Q platform so researchers can co-design algorithms, error-correction codes and hardware architectures.1

Engineering simulation and writing

Costa writes on the NVIDIA Blog about accelerated engineering and scientific computing. Posts by Costa introduced NVIDIA Apollo, a family of open models for industrial and computational engineering, at the SC25 conference in November 2025, and announced the general availability of the NVIDIA cuDSS CUDA-X library for engineering and scientific simulation in October 2026.245

Work and contributions

  • NVIDIA CUDA-Q Open-source code

    Leads NVIDIA's quantum vertical, according to NVIDIA's blog, and was quoted as vice president and general manager of quantum in NVIDIA's September 2026 announcement expanding the open-source CUDA-Q platform with CUDA-Q Logical.21

  • NVIDIA HPC SDK

    Led product management for HPC software at NVIDIA, responsible for the NVIDIA HPC SDK, HPC compilers and math libraries, plus programming model strategy and standards engagement.3

Timeline

  1. Wrote NVIDIA Blog posts on quantum computing and semiconductor manufacturing with CUDA-X.2
  2. Introduced the NVIDIA Apollo open model family for scientific simulation at SC25.4
  3. Quoted as vice president and general manager of quantum in NVIDIA's announcement of CUDA-Q Logical.1
  4. Announced the general availability of the NVIDIA cuDSS library on the NVIDIA Blog.5

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • Performance library architect and HPC application engineer, Intel3

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References

5 sources · profile reviewed Oct 21, 2026 · data updated Oct 21, 2026

  1. NVIDIA Expands Open Source CUDA-Q Platform for Fault-Tolerant Quantum ComputingNVIDIA Newsroom · Announcement · published Sep 14, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  2. Timothy Costa — NVIDIA Blog author pageNVIDIA · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  3. Tim Costa — NVIDIA Technical Blog author pageNVIDIA · Official page · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  4. One Giant Leap for AI Physics: NVIDIA Apollo Unveiled as Open Model Family for Scientific SimulationNVIDIA Blog · Announcement · published Nov 17, 2025 · accessed Oct 21, 2026
  5. NVIDIA cuDSS Now Generally Available to Accelerate Engineering and Scientific SimulationsNVIDIA Blog · Announcement · published Oct 21, 2026 · accessed Oct 21, 2026