University of Pisa,
Pisa, Italy
Antonio Brogi is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa (Italy) since 2004. Since 2020, he is the Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Computer Science jointly run by the Universities of Pisa, Florence, and Siena. He has authored over 300 papers in international journals and conferences. He is currently member of the editorial board of five journals and has participated in the program committes of leading conferences in his research areas (60+ in the last two years). His main research contributions have been first on symbolic artificial intelligence, and then on software engineering, in particular concerning mechanisms to orchestrate software elements in heterogeneous distributed networks. In recent years, his research interests have been focusing on the application of software engineering techniques to quantum computing.
In this lecture, we will discuss some examples of how software engineering techniques can be exploited to empower the current potential of quantum computing. We will first show how the heterogenity of currently available NISQ quantum services can be leveraged to enable distributed, quality-aware quantum computations. We will then illustrate how software engineering techniques can be exploited to assess security properties of quantum circuits executed in remotely hosted NISQ devices. Finally, we will discuss some key challenges on the path to achieving self-adaptive, hybrid quantum systems.
