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Quantum Software Engineering: Building Dependable Software for Quantum Computers
Abstract
Quantum computers are becoming increasingly powerful and accessible. For instance, it is now possible to access IBM’s quantum computers of up to 156 qubits via cloud services through open access. This opens up new opportunities for building novel quantum computing applications, which are enabled through quantum software. However, developing dependable software that runs on quantum computers and delivers these applications requires new software engineering methods. To this end, a novel field of Quantum Software Engineering (QSE) is emerging. This talk will introduce the field of QSE, covering various aspects such as requirements engineering, modeling, coding, testing, and debugging of quantum software. Moreover, the talk will discuss how classical AI can potentially assist in QSE activities and briefly touch on quantum artificial intelligence, which holds the potential to help with QSE. Finally, the talk will conclude by discussing open research questions and the outlook for future work.
Bio
Shaukat Ali is a Chief Research Scientist, Research Professor, and Head of the Department at Simula Research Laboratory in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on developing novel methods for creating cyber-physical systems by applying various advanced techniques, including artificial intelligence, digital twins, and quantum computing. He has led multiple national and European projects related to testing, search-based software engineering, model-based system engineering, and quantum software engineering. He is a co-founder of the International Workshop on Quantum Software Engineering at ICSE, the International Conference on Quantum Software, and the QC+AI workshop at AAAI. He represents Simula in various national and international quantum computing research and industrial networks.
Date and Time:
Tuesday September 9, 2025, 14:00-15:00 CEST (17:30-18:30 IST)
Previous Webinars
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Working with Non-Traditional Subjects; Lessons Learned from Using VR to Help Students with ADHD Focus
Abstract
Have you ever considered working with subjects other than traditional developers? For the past three years, we have done just that. We have found the journey full of new challenges and unexpected twists, but ultimately extremely rewarding. In this webinar we will detail our multi-year research project where we studied over 100 students with ADHD, helping them increase their focus on work using virtual reality headsets. Whether you are interested in studying students with ADHD, programmers with autism, or another non-traditional population, we walk you through the techniques and procedures, often outside of the typical computer scientists’ wheelhouse, that enabled our research. By the end of this webinar you will not only understand our findings on this particular project, you will understand what it takes to work with non-traditional subjects, populations that are often eager to engage with researchers and respond dramatically to the right interventions.
Bio
David Shepherd is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Delaware, and his B.S. in Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. David has since worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, built sweat equity as employee #9 at Tasktop Technologies, and risen to Senior Principal Scientist at ABB Corporate Research. His research has produced tools that have been used by thousands, innovations that have been featured in the popular press, and practical ideas that have won business plan competitions. Dr. Shepherd currently serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Systems & Software.
Date:
Wednesday July 30, 10-11am ET
Recording:
From SBOM to Trusted Software Supply Chain: How Far Are We?
Dec 13, 2022 7:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
Registration and more information
Speaker: Xin Xia, moderator: Xing Hu
Abstract:
The security and transparency of the software supply chain have been an emergency problem met by the government, industry, and academia. Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), which records the ingredients that makeup software components, is widely used as a key building block to support the trusted software supply chain (TSSC). Except for SBOM, do we need to invent other technologies to support TSSC? What is the future road of TSSC? In this talk, I will present our recent progress in this area. I will introduce our initial works on SBOM generation and consumption, and then I will present our works relevant to vulnerability management (e.g., silent vulnerability bug reports and fixes identification, vulnerability detection, and CVE improvement) and supply chain attack prevention. Finally, I will briefly mention the future direction of TSSC.