Talks & Academic Service

2026

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada · September 2026

Contributed talk
Learning to Concatenate Quantum Codes
Poster
Variational Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
Organizing committee
4th International Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning

FTQC4Nsc Symposium

Heilbronn, Germany · July 2026

Poster
Discovering Logical Operations for Arbitrary QEC Codes with Machine Learning

Pattern Recognition Symposium (PRS)

Duderstadt, Germany · July 2026

Contributed talk
Discovering Logical Operations for Arbitrary Quantum Error Correction Codes with Machine Learning

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Control, Computing, and Learning (qCCL)

Aalborg, Denmark · July 2026

Contributed talk
Optimized Compilation of Logical Clifford Circuits
Poster
ML-Driven QEC: Noise-Tailored Codes and Logical Gates for Early Fault Tolerance

Beyond Silicon 2026: The Future of Computing

Nuremberg, Germany · April 2026

Poster
Compilation as the Linchpin for Scalable Quantum Computing

Professorship appointment interview (W1 tenure track) in Quantum Computing, University of Stuttgart

Germany · March 2026

Scientific talk
Machine-Learned Fault Tolerance: Tailoring Quantum Error-Correcting Codes to Noise
Teaching talk
Kompilierung von Quantenschaltkreisen: Routing unter Konnektivitätsbeschränkungen

2025

Quantinuum seminar

Remote · November 2025

Invited talk
Learning Encodings by Maximizing State Distinguishability

Munich Quantum Software Forum

Munich, Germany · October 2025

Pitch and poster
Quantum Middleware with AI-Enhanced Solutions

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA · September 2025

Poster
Variational Quantum Error Correction
Organizing committee
3rd International Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · July 2025

Poster
Benchmarking Quantum Reinforcement Learning

Sommersitzung des Bayerischen KI-Rats

Nuremberg, Germany · July 2025

Poster
Benchmarking Quantum Reinforcement Learning

ML4QT Symposium

Heilbronn, Germany · July 2025

Contributed talk
Variational QEC: Learning Noise-Adaptive Encoding Schemes with ML

Pattern Recognition Symposium (PRS)

Remote participation · July 2025

Contributed talk
Learning Encodings by Maximizing State Distinguishability

Kipu Quantum seminar

Remote · April 2025

Invited talk
Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance

2024

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

Montréal, Québec, Canada · September 2024

Panelist
QML quo vadis?
Session chair
Quantum Circuit Design and Analysis
Contributed talk
Qiskit-Torch-Module: Fast Prototyping of Quantum Neural Networks
Organizing committee
1st International Workshop on Quantum Computing and RL

2nd International Workshop on QML: From Research to Practice

Montréal, Québec, Canada · September 2024

Contributed talk
Comprehensive Library of Variational LSE Solvers

Fut3ch Symposium, Deggendorf Institute of Technology

Deggendorf, Germany · January 2024

Invited talk
Machine Learning meets Quantum Computing

2023

Quantum Future Award 2023, Federal Ministry for Education and Research

Berlin, Germany · November 2023

Pitch
Variational Quantum Circuits for Policy Approximation

1st International Workshop on QML: From Foundations to Applications

Bellevue, Washington, USA · September 2023

Keynote
Quantum Reinforcement Learning – State of the Art, Challenges and Perspectives
Contributed talk
Quantum Natural Policy Gradients: Towards Sample-Efficient RL

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA · July 2023

Poster
Quantum Policy Gradient Algorithm with Optimized Action Decoding

Workshop Optimization and Machine Learning, ADA Lovelace Center

Waischenfeld, Germany · March 2023

Poster
Improving the Performance of QRL with Classical Post-Processing

Quromorphic Winter Workshop 2023, Max Planck Institute

Erlangen, Germany · February 2023

Poster
Improving the Performance of QRL with Classical Post-Processing

Peer review

I have reviewed submissions for the following journals and conferences:

Journals and transactions

Quantum ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing Quantum Information Processing Quantum Information & Computation IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering Chinese Journal of Physics IEEE Communications Letters Knowledge-Based Systems Neurocomputing Transactions on Machine Learning Research

Conferences and workshops

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, 2024–2026) Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC, 2024–2025) Workshop on Quantum Artificial Intelligence & Optimization (QAIO, 2025–2027) International Workshop on Quantum Computing and RL (QCRL, 2025–2026) Quantum AI and NLP Conference (QNLP-AI, 2026)