Workshop on Quantum Technologies (WQT)

Schedule

Friday, 10 January 2025
Venue: Indian Affairs - The Chancery Pavilion (Hotel), Bengaluru, India
Time	Title	Speaker/Authors
Session 1
9:30 - 10:00	Registration / Welcome Addresses by various Dignitaries
10:00 - 10:45	Keynote: Quantum Cryptography	Prabha Mandayam
10:45 - 11:00	Quantum Network Routing with Heterogeneous Nodes	Anoop Kumar Pandey
11:00-11:30	Tea Break
Session 2
11:30 - 12:15	Keynote: Variational quantum algorithms for digital quantum computing and quantum annealing platforms: Applications to atoms and molecules	Bhanu Pratap Das
12:15-12:30	Characterizing quantum dynamics using multipartite entanglement generation	Gaurav Rudra Malik
12:30-12:45	Software tool-set for automated quantum system identification and device bring up	Anurag Saha Roy
12:45-13:00	Quantum Variational Singular Value Decomposition: A new hybrid approach towards quantum image compression	Britant
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break
Session 3
14:00 - 14:45	Keynote: Quantum sensing with diamonds	Alexander Huck
14:45-15:00	Implementing Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks for Accurate Wildfire Detection (pre-recorded)	Aryaman Sarda (pre-recorded)
15:00 - 16:00	Poster session
16:00 - 16:30	Tea/Coffee break (along with poster session)
Session 4
16:30 - 16:50	Industry Talk: Bringing Quantum Algorithms for Academia to Industry	Rajiv Krishnakumar (QuantumBasel)
16:50 - 17:10	Industry Talk	Sachin Barthwaj (Quantum AI Global)
17:10 - 17:30	Industry Talk: Machine Learning based Optimisation for Quantum Devices	Anurag Saha Roy (qruise)
17:30 - 18:00	Industry Panel Session	Moderator: Shantanu Sharma (QETCI)
18:00 - 18:15	Best paper award announcement & sponsorship acknowledgement & closing remarks

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Call for Papers

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Camera Ready Guidelines

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Accepted Papers (Oral Presentation)

1. Characterizing quantum dynamics using multipartite entanglement generation
   Gaurav Malik (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, India), Dr. Rohit Kumar Shukla (Center for Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel), Dr. Aravinda S. (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, India), Dr. Sunil Kumar Mishra (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India)
   
   
2. Quantum Network Routing with Heterogeneous Nodes
   Anoop Kumar Pandey, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad), Panduranga Rao MV (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad)
   
   
3. Software tool-set for automated quantum system identification and device bring up
   Anurag Saha Roy (Qruise), Kevin Pack (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Nicolas Wittler (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Shai Machnes (Qruise)
   
   
4. Quantum Variational Singular Value Decomposition: A new hybrid approach towards quantum image compression
   Britant Britant (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida), Abhishek Tiwari (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Noida)
   
   

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Accepted Papers (Poster Presentation)

1. Variational Quantum Factorization (VQF) using Different Variations of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA)
   Janhavi Hatwar (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal) Nakul Aggarwal (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA) and Debanjan Bhowmik (Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
   
   
2. Evolutionary Quantum Cournot duopoly game in the purview of the modified EWL scheme
   Kameshwari AVS (Department of Physics, School of Advanced Science, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore), Balakrishnan S (Department of Physics, School of Advanced Science, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore)
   
   
3. New Multi-Qubit CHSH Games and their application to Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution protocols
   Venugopal S (NIT Tiruchirappalli), Kunwar Singh (NIT Tiruchirappalli)
   
   
4. Formal verification of higher dimensional quantum communication protocols
   Ittoop Vergheese Puthoor (Newcastle University)
   
   
5. Securing UAV Communications: A Comparative Performance Analysis of Post-Quantum Cryptographic Techniques
   Praveen Kumar Sandanamudi (IIIT Sri City), Neha Agrawal (IIIT Sri City), Nikhil Tripathi (IIIT Sri City), Pavan Kumar BN (IIIT Sri City)
   
   
6. Exploring Optimal and Suboptimal Beamforming Solutions Using Weighted Subspace-Search-VQE
   Bidisha Dhara, Monika Agrawal, Sumantra Dutta Roy (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, New Delhi, India)
   
   
7. Robust Quantum-Inspired Tensor Networks
   Saravanan M (Ericsson Research), Subhadeep (IIT Kharagpur), Abhik Ghosh (ISI Kolkata)
   
   
8. Benchmarking Quantum Image Representations Algorithms for Hybrid-Quantum applications
   Abhishek Tiwari (CDAC Noida), Britant (CDAC Noida), Saiyam Sakhuja (CDAC Noida), Shailja Kapoor (CDAC Noida)
   
   
9. Exploring Quantum k-Nearest Neighbors for Iris Dataset Classification: A Comparative Study
   Aishwarya N R (PES University), Shwetha P (PES University), Srikanth Mangipudi
   
   
10. Laser frequency locking for quantum sensing applications using AI/ML techniques
    Srikanth Mangipudi, Rama Teja Avvaru, Gopika Chaganti, Sachin Barthwal
    
    
11. Performance of DVQKD Protocol Over Gamma Gamma Turbulence Channel
    Abhishek Mani Shukla (IIT Delhi), Neel Kanth Kundu (IIT Delhi)
    
    
12. Quantum Fourier Transform for Spectral Analysis of Light from Distant Astronomical Objects Using SDSS Optical Data
    Mohamed Yaqub (SRM Institute of Science and Technology), Sudikshan Senthilkumaran (SRM Institute of Science and Technology), Navin Balaji (SRM Institute of Science and Technology), Adarsh Anandhakumar (SRM Institute of Science and Technology), Dr Gayathri Mani (SRM Institute of Science and Technology)
    
    
13. Quantum-Enhanced Machine Learning for Precision Breast Cancer Diagnosis,
    Agniva Banerjee (IISERB, India)
    
    
14. Improved Performance of Multi-Angle Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (ma-QAOA) Compared to QAOA On Simulation and Experimental Hardware Platforms
    Vandit Srivastava, Rohith P (Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi), Sanyam Singhal (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Debanjan Bhowmik (Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
    
    
15. Implementing Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks for Accurate Wildfire Detection
    Aryaman Sarda (St Paul's School)
    
    

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Important Dates

Manuscript Submission Due:               27th October 2024 (AoE) 10th November 2024 (AOE) (EXTENDED and FIRM)

Notification of Acceptance:                 3rd December 2024

Camera-ready Submission:                 10th December 2024

Workshop Date:                                     10th January 2025

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The 20th century, often referred to as the information age, witnessed the first quantum revolution with the invention of transistors, superconducting levitation, atomic clocks, and superfluidity. There is a broad consensus that we are now at the cusp of a second quantum revolution, and that the 21st century will be even more disruptive with the development of new quantum technologies. By exploiting quantum resources such as superposition and entanglement, we can radically transform technologies from communication to computing. For instance, in the communication domain, quantum physics can offer the ultimate (information-theoretic) security; while for certain problems in computing, quantum computers can potentially offer speed-ups that are unattainable by their classical counterparts. Besides them, quantum sensing is another mature quantum technology that can offer sensors with sensitivities approaching the ultimate (Heisenberg) limit and highly miniaturized footprints,  imperceptible by their traditional counterparts. The very fragility of quantum states, which is a hindrance to their scalability in communication and computing, makes them invaluable sensors. The technological readiness levels of these offerings are improving so rapidly that some of them have already become commercially viable.

With 2025 set to be the International Year of Quantum Technologies celebrating the 100 years since the initial development of quantum mechanics, and after a highly successful launch of QCom(P), the first international workshop on Quantum Communication and Computing at COMSNETS 2024, we are now ready to make it bigger, better and more general. Hence, going forward, we have expanded the scope and now present the Workshop on Quantum Technologies (WQT), which will be co-located with COMSNETS 2025 and will encompass all 3 major drivers of quantum technology as of today: sensing, communications and computing. The aim of this workshop is to bring together quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, and programmers, from both academia and industry, working in this field. In this context, the workshop also intends to include the topic of understanding what it takes to bring more of the technology from an academic setting to real-world applications based on the industry requirements and technology development roadmap.

Call for Papers

Prospective participants are invited to submit their research contributions in the form of articles, surveys, tutorials, work-in-progress reports, extended abstracts, etc. that range from breakthrough ideas to real-world applications. This workshop would enable participants to present and discuss their accepted submissions via contributed talks and poster presentations.  WQT features both experimental and theoretical presentations. This workshop also comprises keynote addresses and invited talks on areas deemed topical and of special interest to the attendees. Finally, the workshop, along with a dedicated industry session, aims to serve as a forum to exchange ideas, present new results, connect and foster collaborations. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Quantum Computing:

• Qubit modalities - both theoretical and experimental results
• Hardware, platforms and architectures for quantum and hybrid computing
• Quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing
• Software stacks, tools and programming languages for quantum-enhanced computing
• Error mitigation, error suppression and error management techniques
• Quantum algorithms for NISQ and beyond
• Hybrid gate-annealer-classical computing
• Quantum machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Quantum-enhanced optimization
• Quantum simulations and quantum chemistry
• Quantum-enhanced solutions for different applications and domains
• Benchmarking in the areas of quantum computing
• Quantum-inspired computing architecture
• Quantum-inspired classical algorithms

Quantum Sensing:

• Quantum magnetometry
• Quantum electrometry
• Quantum gravimetry
• Quantum inertial sensing (gyroscopy)
• Atomic clocks
• Quantum(-insipred) imaging
• Hybrid & intelligent quantum sensing
• Quantum-enhanced metrology
• Signal processing & AI for quantum sensing

Quantum Communication:

• Networked & distributed quantum computing and sensing
• Quantum for Blockchain and IoT
• Quantum communication and networks
• Quantum cryptography and post-quantum cryptography

Foundational topics of quantum technologies:

• Quantum complexity theory
• Quantum information theory
• Quantum estimation and detection

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Submission guidelines:

• Submissions must be no greater than 6 pages in length including all figures, tables, references, and appendix and must be a PDF file. A minimum number of 3 pages are required.
• Submissions must be original work that has not been previously published or under review at another conference or journal. Submissions are expected to articulate a non-technical, clear and insightful description of the main idea and results, their impact, and their importance.
• Reviews will be double-blind: authors name and affiliation should not be included in the submission.
• Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed.
• All workshop papers (full papers - both regular and invited) will appear in conference proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
• All papers must be submitted as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) document and uploaded through the WQT Workshop submission site: https://comsnets25wqt.hotcrp.com/

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Papers can be submitted through HOTCRP : https://comsnets25wqt.hotcrp.com/.

For any queries, please contact us at WQT Chairs:comsnets.wqt@gmail.com    comsnets.workshop@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers

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Panel Moderator

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Technical Program Committee (TPC):

• Alessio Avella, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), Italy
• Julien Baglio, QuantumBasel, Switzerland
• Anindita Banerjee, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
• Debajyoti Bera, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India
• Anubhav Chaturvedi, Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland
• Soumya Das, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
• Arinjoy De, Duke University, USA
• Ivan Dmitrovic Derkach, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
• Nils Engelsen, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Jyoti Faujdar, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Kaumudibikash Goswami, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Raktim Halder Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
• Kaushik Joarder, Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU), Poland
• Srikar Kasi, Princeton University, USA
• Shashank Kumar, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Ritajit Majumdar, IBM Quantum, India
• Sunil Kumar Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India
• Anirban Mukherjee Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research & Innovation, India
• Arun Padakandla, University of Tennesee, USA
• Anjani Priyadarsini, Amazon Web Services (AWS), India
• Ankur Raina, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India
• M A Rajan, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research & Innovation, India
• Abhishek Sadhu, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), India
• Surya Narayan Sahoo, National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar, India
• Aritra Sarkar, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands
• Luca Troise, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark

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