Matthias has joined us as a master student in our WWTF project ALPAQA (Advancing learning paradigms for photonic quantum processors), he will focus on HPC-enhanced post-processing of quantum state measurements. He is a M.Sc. student at TU Wien, Austria, and a collaborator in our research group. In 2024 he received his bachelor’s degree in Technical Physics from TU Wien, Austria. His main research interests include HPC, Applied Mathematics, and Quantum Computing.

Mario has joined us as a PhD student in our WWTF project ALPAQA (Advancing learning paradigms for photonic quantum processors). In this role, he will work at the interface of quantum computing and machine learning. He obtained his Master’s degree in Physics from ETH Zürich in January 2026. His prior research focused on the quantum simulation of non-Hermitian dynamics on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. His broader research interests span quantum simulation, quantum computing, and unconventional quantum frameworks.

Congratulations to Sabrina Herbst for receiving the Andreas Dieberger-Peter Skalicky Stipend! The €4,000 stipend supports PhD researchers in energy, environment, medical engineering, or ICT. Sabrina, a PhD student at our Research Unit focusing on Quantum Machine Learning, has won multiple awards including the ETH Zürich Summer Research Fellowship and has publications at ICLR 2025 and QCE 2024.

Congratulations to Felix Zilk, Alessandro Tundo, Vincenzo De Maio, and Ivona Brandić for winning the Best Paper Award at IEEE ISVLSI 2025 for their paper "Breaking Down Quantum Compilation: Profiling and Identifying Costly Passes"! The paper analyzes quantum circuit compilation in Qiskit, identifying that circuit optimization and hardware mapping can consume up to 99% of compilation time.

We are now looking for:

• IT Technician (20h/week): Ordering and maintaining hardware (servers and clusters), among other tasks.
• Office Professional (20h/week): Human resources and accounting tasks.

Congratulations to Sabtain Ahmad on winning the Critical Infrastructure Award 2024! His research targets real-time decision-making in critical infrastructures systems, such as transportation, water management, and energy networks, using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Our team members Julia Oberauner, Daniel May, and Felix Zilk have been awarded with the Netidee scholarship for their masters and PhD theses. Congratulations!

We are looking for persons with a Dipl.-Ing. / MSc. in computer science, mathematics, software & information engineering, electrical engineering, or a similar field with a background in one (or more) following areas: systems science, distributed systems, virtualized HPC systems, data science, or environmental sensing. Please find more information here.

The paper "Paving the way to hybrid quantum-classical scientific workflows" co-authored by Sandeep Suresh Cranganore, Vincenzo De Maio, Ivona Brandić and Ewa Deelman has been selected as the Editor's Choice Paper for the Fall 2024 issue of Future Generation Computer Systems.

The WWTF project AI-supported Holographic Environmental Water Monitoring (HoloWaterAI) on the foundational methods for developing digital twins in close collaboration with BOKU Wien has been funded! The project will start in 2025 and will be led by Peter Van Oostrum and Ivona Brandić.