{"id":740,"date":"2025-11-12T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/2024\/10\/24\/call-for-technical-papers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:18:13","slug":"call-for-technical-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Technical Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"740\" class=\"elementor elementor-740\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e69f382 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e69f382\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-badb53c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"badb53c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b47128a elementor-widget__width-inherit elementor-widget elementor-widget-breadcrumbs\" data-id=\"b47128a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"breadcrumbs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c36a579 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c36a579\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Call for Technical Papers<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a6432ea elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"a6432ea\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"guidelines\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9950176 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"9950176\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-569066f e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"569066f\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10e063b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10e063b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;color: #333333\">Scope and Goals<\/h3><p>IEEE Quantum Week aims to be a leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, ground-breaking innovations, and compelling insights in quantum computing and engineering. Technical papers are peer-reviewed, can be on any topic related to quantum computing and engineering, and will be considered by one of the following technical paper tracks.<\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px\">For more information, please consult<span style=\"font-weight: bolder\">\u00a0last year\u2019s conference program:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/09\/QCE25-Technical-Paper-Sessions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QCE25 Technical Papers Program<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: transparent\">and\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2025\/program\/qce25-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QCE25 Final Program<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5b3a403 elementor-widget elementor-widget-template\" 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class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Please refer to the detailed\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"\/2026\/authors\/call-for-contributions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calls for Contributions<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent\"> and <\/span><a href=\"\/2026\/about\/conference-topics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conference Topics<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;text-align: center\"><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/submission-deadlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submission Deadlines.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Please refer to the pages\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/cfp\/QCE26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EasyChair CFP<\/a><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;text-align: center\"><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff\"><a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=qce26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submit your contribution using EasyChair<\/a><\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff\" href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=qce26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59cec22 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59cec22\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;color: #333333\">Technical Paper Tracks Program Chairs<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent\"><b>Robert Wille, Technical University of Munich (TUM)<\/b> \u2014&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:robert.wille@tum.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">robert.wille@tum.de<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Silvia Zorzetti, Fermi National Laboratory (LANL)<\/b> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:zorzetti@fnal.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zorzetti@fnal.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c2a5e58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c2a5e58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;color: #333333\">Proceedings &amp; Best Papers<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\">Papers accepted to and presented at IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing &amp; Engineering (QCE26) will be submitted to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/xpl\/conhome\/9259908\/proceeding\">IEEE Xplore Digital Library<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/csdl\/proceedings\/1838864\">IEEE Computer Society Digital Library (CSDL)<\/a>&nbsp;in September 2026.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\">The best QCE26 papers will be recommended to the journals&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tqe.ieee.org\/\">IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE)<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/journal\/tqc\">ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC)<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\">QCE26 will award Best Paper Awards for the Technical Program Tracks. The QCE26 Best Paper&nbsp;Awards will be presented in the plenary sessions before the keynote presentations on the day the respective paper is being presented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;color: #333333\">IEEE Conference Authorship &amp; AI Policies<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/03\/QCE26-IEEE-Author-Policies-with-genAI.pdf\">IEEE Conference Authorship Policies<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newauthors.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org\/video-tutorials\/?the-video=12\">AI Policy \u2014 Please view the AI Policy Video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;color: #333333\">Reviewing Guidelines<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;QCE25 received a record number of 560+ technical paper manuscripts\u2015an increase of 100+ compared to QCE24. We expect similar submission numbers for QCE26. At least three reviewers must review each manuscript, and each reviewer is expected to review 6-8 papers. Thus, we need approximately 300 reviewers for the QCE26 technical paper review process.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/02\/QCE26-Guidelines-Technical-Paper-Reviewing-V55-c.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QCE26-Guidelines-Technical-Paper-Reviewing-V55-c.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-231bd4f elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"231bd4f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"papertypes\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dd8e147 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"dd8e147\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><div><span style=\"color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-size: 28px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div><\/div><h3 style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;color: #333333\">Technical Paper Types &amp; Submission Guidelines<\/h3><div><p style=\"margin-right: 0pt;margin-bottom: 12px;margin-left: 10pt;max-width: 650pt;line-height: 1.4;font-size: 11pt;padding-bottom: 5pt;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are available:<\/p><ul style=\"margin: 12px 0px;font-size: 13px;max-width: 650pt;padding-bottom: 5pt;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\">Full papers\u00a0<\/span>are 8-10 pages (including figures, tables, and appendices), plus two additional\u00a0pages for references.\u00a0Full papers should fall into one of the following categories:<br \/><ol style=\"margin: 12px 0px;font-size: 14.6667px;max-width: 650pt\"><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\"><em>Research papers (RESP)<\/em><\/span>\u00a0that\u00a0describe the paper\u2019s contributions and\/or innovations as well as\u00a0the research methods used.<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\"><em>Survey papers (SURP)<\/em><\/span>\u00a0that describe a survey on a research topic in the fields of quantum computing and engineering.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\">Short papers\u00a0<\/span>are\u00a04-6 pages (including figures and tables and appendices), plus one additional page of references. Short papers should fall into one of the following categories:<br \/><ol style=\"margin: 12px 0px;font-size: 14.6667px;max-width: 650pt\"><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\">New Ideas and Emergent Results (NIER)<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>papers describe novel and promising ideas and\/or techniques that are in an early stage of development.<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\"><em>Experience and Application (EXAP)<\/em><\/span>\u00a0papers describe the experiences gained from applying\/evaluating quantum computing and engineering research results in practice. It is encouraged that the partners from both practice and research join in the effort as co-authors and that the paper reflects the perspective of both sides. The papers should emphasize the value of the experience to the community.<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\"><em>Artifact\u00a0papers (ARTI)<\/em><\/span>\u00a0describe model problems, exemplars, or sets of resources useful for the broader quantum computing and engineering community.<\/li><\/ol><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Submit your paper using the<span style=\"font-weight: bolder\">\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol', 'Noto Color Emoji';font-size: 1rem;font-weight: bolder\" href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=qce26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EasyChair submission website<\/a> to one of the\u00a0<em style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\">Paper\u00a0Tracks (i.e., QALG, QAPP, QECS, QGDD,\u00a0 QTEM, QSYS, QML, QPHO, or\u00a0QNET)\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">described below.\u00a0<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\"><b>Organizers and track chairs greatly appreciate your early abstract submission<\/b>\u00a0for planning purposes. To submit your abstract early, enter the <b>author information, title, abstract, and keywords<\/b> in the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=qce26\">EasyChair submission<\/a><\/strong> text boxes. This information can be updated later if need be. <b>Early abstract submission is optional but strongly encouraged.<\/b><\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Indicate the\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-weight: bolder\">Paper Type\u00a0(i.e.,\u00a0RESP, SURP, NIER, EXAP, ARTI)<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>in the file name and description of your EasyChair submission.<\/li><\/ul><p style=\"margin-right: 0pt;margin-bottom: 12px;margin-left: 10pt;max-width: 650pt;line-height: 1.4;font-size: 11pt;padding-bottom: 5pt;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Each technical paper must conform at the time of submission to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieee.org\/conferences\/publishing\/templates.html\">IEEE Formatting Instructions<\/a>\u00a0(i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type, LaTEX users must use \\documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the compsoc or compsocconf option). The submission must also comply with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org\/become-an-ieee-journal-author\/publishing-ethics\/\">IEEE Policy on Authorship<\/a>.<span style=\"color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;font-size: 1rem;font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight )\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><h3 style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-size: 1.75rem\">Important Technical Paper Submission Requirements<\/span><\/h3><ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px\">By submitting a technical paper to IEEE Quantum Week 2026, you are making a commitment for at least one author to register and atten the conference in person upon acceptance of your paper.<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5c1bc5 elementor-widget 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elementor-element-25d8763 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"25d8763\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QAPP\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-95a3ccf elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"95a3ccf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c4c70be elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c4c70be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arihal, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 1.25rem;text-align: var(--text-align);color: #333333\">Quantum Applications (QAPP) Paper Track Chairs<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b style=\"background-color: transparent\">Rudy Raymond, JPMorgan Chase \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:rudy.raymond@proton.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rudy.raymond@proton.me<\/a><\/b><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich (TUM) \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:cmartin.w.j.schulz@tum.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">martin.w.j.schulz@tum.de<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h5><i>The practice of solving problems with quantum computers.<\/i><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Towards Quantum Advantage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Towards fault tolerance and realization of quantum error correction at the application level<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum Machine Learning (QML) applications<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Fault-tolerant applications<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum simulation of physical systems<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Applications \u2014 chemistry, machine learning, finance, optimization, biological sciences, and other science &amp; engineering applications<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Applications of quantum annealing<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum for generative AI<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Integrated high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum applications<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Performance evaluation of quantum algorithms<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Optimization problems\u2014transportation, supply chain &amp; logistics<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum AI &amp; decision making<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum medical applications &amp; precision health applications<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum DNA and protein sequencing<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum finance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed0ab70 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"ed0ab70\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QECS\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d9e2b16 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d9e2b16\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/#guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Submission Instructions and Guidelines<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6eda208 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6eda208\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e06aa9 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e06aa9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 1.25rem\">Quantum End-to-end Hybrid Case Studies (QECS) Paper Track Chairs<\/span><\/h3><div><ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Steven Rayan, University of Saskatchewan \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:steven.rayan@usask.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">steven.rayan@usask.ca<\/a><\/b><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Alexandre Choquette, IBM Quantum \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:alexandre@ibm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alexandre@ibm.com<\/a><\/b><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h5><i>The design and implementation of domain-specific quantum computing case studies to demonstrate quantum utility.<\/i><\/h5><ul style=\"max-width: 650pt;padding-bottom: 5pt;margin: 12px 0px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px\"><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Domain-specific end-to-end quantum case studies<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Domain-specific problems and results<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Small-scale experiments<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Practical quantum simulation case studies in chemistry, materials, biology, or physics<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Domain-specific quantum optimization workflows, including combinatorial optimization, scheduling, or control problems, implemented using hybrid quantum\u2013classical techniques.<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Data-driven insights from hybrid quantum experiments<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Validation through recovery of classical results, using known solutions<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Identification of nearby or approximate solutions, demonstrating how quantum methods can uncover useful suboptimal<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Error mitigation and robustness strategies applied within realistic end-to-end case studies, rather than in isolation<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Pathways to scale-up, including algorithmic generalization, problem size growth, hardware evolution, and integration with distributed or modular quantum systems<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Software engineering and tooling for hybrid case studies, including workflow orchestration, utility frameworks, reproducibility practices, and open-source implementations<\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-398d6ba elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"398d6ba\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QGDD\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35c57e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"35c57e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/#guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Submission Instructions and Guidelines<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c759e2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6c759e2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-927032d elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"927032d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"color: inherit;font-size: 1.25rem\">Quantum\u2013GenAI Co-Design &amp; Co-Discovery (QGDD) Paper Track<\/span><span style=\"color: inherit;font-size: 1.25rem\">&nbsp;Chairs<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Yuri Alexeev, NVIDIA \u2014&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:yuri.alexeev@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yuri.alexeev@gmail.com<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Foutse Khomh, Polytechnique, Montr\u00e9al \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:foutse.khomh@polymtl.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">foutse.khomh@polymtl.ca<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h5><i>The practice of combining quantum computing and generative AI for innovative applications.<\/i><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"max-width: 650pt;padding-bottom: 5pt;margin: 12px 0px;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Agentic quantum\u2013generative AI systems and workflows<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Quantum-Generative AI co-design frameworks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum simulation data generation<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Drug discovery, materials science, biology, energy, or optimization enabled by QGDD pipelines<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Large quantitative models (LQMs) for domain-specific genAI<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Closed-loop discovery pipelines where genAI proposes candidates and quantum computers validate, refine, or falsify them<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Hybrid quantum-classical-AI system architectures<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum-enhanced generative models, including variational quantum circuits, quantum Boltzmann machines, or hybrid quantum-AI generators<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Benchmarking, metrics, and evaluation methodologies for quantum\u2013GenAI discovery workflows and co-designed systems<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Data representations and interfaces connecting quantum simulators, hardware backends, and generative AI models<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c631880 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"c631880\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QALG\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae14f6b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"ae14f6b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/#guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Submission Instructions and Guidelines<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e32024 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"6e32024\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fb4ae8 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0fb4ae8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"color: #333333;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arihal, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 1.25rem\">Quantum Algorithms (QALG) Paper Track Chairs<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Ulrike Stege, University of Victoria \u2014\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:ustege@uvic.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ustege@uvic.ca<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Stefan Woerner, IBM Quantum Zurich \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:wor@zurich.ibm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wor@zurich.ibm.com<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<h5><i>The theory of solving problems with quantum computers.<\/i><\/h5>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Quantum information science<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum algorithm structures and patterns<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum algorithms and complexity<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Near-term quantum algorithms<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Error correction and mitigation algorithms<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Fault-tolerant quantum algorithms<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Advances in hybrid variational algorithms<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Advances in hybrid QAOA algorithms<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum solver approaches<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum linear algebra<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Tensor network algorithms<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Encoding and learning quantum algorithms<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Hamiltonian dynamics<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum cryptography<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Secure quantum computing<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Privacy-preserving quantum computing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b2295f elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"6b2295f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QTEM\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2c85a7c elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2c85a7c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/#guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Submission Instructions and Guidelines<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3d06ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"d3d06ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60e06f4 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"60e06f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arihal, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 1.25rem;text-align: var(--text-align);color: #333333\">Quantum Technologies and Systems Engineering (QTEM) Paper Track Chairs<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Kasra Nowrouzi, QuNorth \u2014&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"mailto:kasra@qunorth.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kasra@qunorth.com<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Anthony Przybysz, Northrop Grumman \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:anthony.przybysz@ieee.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anthony.przybysz@ieee.org<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><b>Tanay Roy, Fermi National Laboratory \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:roytanay@fnal.gov\">roytanay@fnal.gov<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<h5><i>The design and architecture of quantum technologies and systems engineering for computation and sensing.<\/i><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Superconducting quantum technologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum annealing technologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Trapped ion quantum technologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Silicon quantum technologies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum dot technologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Neutral atom quantum technologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Topological quantum technologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Hardware-software stack for quantum annealers, trapped ions, superconducting, photonics, neutral&nbsp;atoms,&nbsp;and others<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum characterization, verification &amp; validation: benchmarking and tomography<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Qubit design and control<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Packaging and cooling<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Cryogenics<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum electronics<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Pulse-level control of qubits<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Sensing and metrology<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Characterization and hardware mitigation of noise, state preparation and measurement errors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7dee249 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"7dee249\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QSYS\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e05c01 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8e05c01\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/#guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Submission Instructions and Guidelines<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-342f246 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"342f246\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c9e1ef elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1c9e1ef\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arihal, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 1.25rem\">Quantum System Software (QSYS) Paper Track Chairs<\/span><\/h3>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Shaukat Ali, Simula Labs \u2014\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:shaukat@simula.no\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shaukat@simula.no<\/a><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 16px\">Amir Shehata, Oak Ridge National Laboratory \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:shehataa@ornl.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shehataa@ornl.gov<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The design, architecture, and operation of full-stack quantum computing systems.<\/span><\/i>\n<\/div>\n<ul style=\"font-size: 18px;background-color: #ffffff\">\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Full quantum software stack: compilers, runtimes, workflows, languages, transpilers, profilers<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum programming, development kits (QDKs), test harnesses, debuggers<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum languages and intermediate representations (IRs)<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum simulators<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum software engineering<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Generative AI in quantum software development and systems software<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Software for co-design<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Hybrid quantum-classical systems<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Resource estimation<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum control software<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Interfacing classical control and quantum hardware through software<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Error correction and mitigation<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Fault-tolerant computing at the system software level<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Testing, validation, and verification of quantum programs and systems<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Benchmarking of quantum systems, quantum volume and other metrics<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Software techniques for error correction and noise mitigation<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Hardware-software stacks for error mitigation<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum software in enterprise systems<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Secure quantum systems<\/li>\n \t<li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Privacy-preserving quantum systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-dc62fc7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"dc62fc7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QPHO\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-618bace elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"618bace\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/#guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Submission Instructions and Guidelines<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8175320 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"8175320\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0811b3b elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0811b3b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arihal, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 1.25rem;text-align: var(--text-align);color: #333333\">Quantum Photonics (QPHO) Paper Track Chairs<\/span><\/h3><ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Luu Nguyen, PsiQuantum \u2014\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:lnguyen@psiquantum.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lnguyen@psiquantum.com<\/a><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px\">Jaqui Romero, University of Queensland \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:m.romero@uq.edu.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">m.romero@uq.edu.au<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><p><i><b>The design and architecture of quantum photonic technologies and systems engineering.<\/b><\/i><\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt;color: var( --e-global-color-text );font-family: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-family ), Sans-serif;font-weight: var( --e-global-typography-text-font-weight )\">Quantum photonic information science and technology<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum computing with photonic systems<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum entanglement and teleportation<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Optical quantum computing<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Photonic quantum technologies<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Photonic quantum computers<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Integrated quantum photonics<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Photonics-based qubit technologies<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Photonic quantum simulation<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Silicon photonic devices<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Photon sources and detectors<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum sensing and metrology<\/li><\/ul><div><span style=\"font-size: 14.6667px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3023d72 elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"3023d72\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" id=\"QML\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-edd41e1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"edd41e1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qce.quantum.ieee.org\/2026\/call-for-technical-papers\/#guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Submission Instructions and Guidelines<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-88c3caa elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"88c3caa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a8dc1c elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9a8dc1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;color: #333333\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', Arihal, 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;font-size: 1.25rem\">Quantum Machine Learning (QML) Paper Track Chairs<\/span><\/h3><ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent\">Sarah Chehade, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga \u2014\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:sarah-chehade@utc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sarah-chehade@utc.edu<\/a><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 16px\">Arno Jacobsen, University of Toronto \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:arno.jacobsen@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arno.jacobsen@gmail.com<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div>\u00a0<\/div><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">The practice of combining quantum computing and machine learning for innovative application development.<\/span><\/i><\/p><ul style=\"font-size: 16px;background-color: #ffffff\"><li style=\"font-size: 16px\"><span style=\"background-color: transparent;font-size: 11pt\">Quantum algorithms for machine learning tasks<\/span><\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">AI-assisted quantum information science<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum-enhanced machine learning<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum-inspired models and machine learning<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum Boltzmann Machines<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs)<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum Support Vector Machines (QSVMs)<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks (QGANs)<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum Generative AI<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Training machine learning models<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum algorithms for reinforcement learning<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum clustering and classification<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Advances in encoding and learning algorithms<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Benchmarking of quantum systems, quantum volume and other metrics<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum machine learning theory<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum error correction and mitigation<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Fault-tolerant QML applications<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum state tomography<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">Quantum machine learning applications<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">QML software and libraries<\/li><li style=\"font-size: 11pt;padding: 3px 0px;line-height: 1.4\">QML benchmarks<\/li><\/ul><div><div>\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-145a3de elementor-widget elementor-widget-menu-anchor\" data-id=\"145a3de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"menu-anchor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-menu-anchor\" 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