jarek miszczak

about:

Jarek Miszczak, November 2022

I'm a researcher working on quantum information theory, complex systems, and programming languages. I'm also managing Quantiki.org, a web portal for quantum computing community.

events:

Quantum Computing Thematic Track organized as a part of 24th International Conference on Computational Science, July 2 - 4, 2024, Malaga, Spain.
QP 2024 Second International Workshop on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Quantum Programming, 11-14 March 2024, Lund, Sweden.
10th International Conference on Mathematics and Computing (ICMC 2024), 2-3 January 2024, Kalasalingam, India.

recent publications:

A. Kundu, P. Bedełek, M. Ostaszewski, O. Danaci, Y.J. Patel, V. Dunjko, J.A. Miszczak, Enhancing quantum variational state diagonalization using reinforcement learning techniques, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 26, pp. 013034 (2024) DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/ad1b7f arXiv:2306.11086
Bartosz Wójcik, Mateusz Żarski, Kamil Książek, Jarosław A. Miszczak, Mirosław J. Skibniewski, A deep learning method for hard-hat-wearing detection based on head center localization, Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences, Vol. 71, No. 6 (2023), pp. e147340, DOI:10.24425/bpasts.2023.147340, arXiv:2106.10944
J.A. Miszczak, Rule switching mechanisms in the Game of Life with synchronous and asynchronous updating policy, Physica Scripta, Vol. 98, pp. 115210 (2023) DOI:10.1088/1402-4896/acfc6c arXiv:2310.05979 [PDF]
R. Glück, I. Lanese, C.A. Mezzina, J.A. Miszczak, I. Phillips, I. Ulidowski, G. Vidal, Towards a Taxonomy for Reversible Computation Approaches, M. Kutrib and U. Meyer (Eds.): RC 2023, LNCS 13960, pp. 1–16, 2023, accepted at 15th International Conference on Reversible Computation (RC), 18-19 July, 2023, Giessen, Germany, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-38100-3_3 [PDF]
J.A. Miszczak, Symbolic quantum programming for supporting applications of quantum computing technologies, Companion Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming (‹Programming› '23), March 13--17, 2023, Tokyo, Japan, arXiv:2302.09401, DOI:10.1145/3594671.3594688

research projects:

PI in Impact of input data alteration and modification of the algorithm parameters on the efficiency of quantum programs – research project funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the OPUS call, 30.01.2020 - 29.01.2025.
Supervisor in Space-efficient encodings of combinatorial problems for variational quantum computing – reserch project funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the PRELUDIUM call, 03.02.2021 - 02.02.2024.

More information

See also full list of my publications including and info about my book High-level Structures for Quantum Computing. There are also some talks I gave and some of my notes and reports in Polish.

teaching:

Introduction to machine learning (in Polish) - Podstawy Uczenia Maszynowego (PUMA), Department of Applied Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, 2019/2020, 2020/2021 and 2021/2022.
Tutorial: Introduction to quantum programming, Machine Learning meets Quantum Computation. April 26-28, 2018, Kraków, Poland.
Nature Inspired Computing (in Polish), Department of Applied Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, 2015-2017.

students supervision:

Akash Kundu, 2020-
Ludmila Botelho, 2020-
Adam Glos, 2017-2021, PhD thesis Application of graph theory in quantum computer science defended summa cum laude, 15/09/2021. Currently: Researcher at AlgorithmiQ.
Mateusz Ostaszewski, 2018-2020, PhD thesis Application on machine learning in quantum computer science defended summa cum laude, 28/05/2020. Currently: Postdoctoral Researcher at Warsaw University of Technology.
Przemysław Sadowski, 2012-2017, PhD thesis Quantum walks: various models and their algorithmic applications defended summa cum laude, 10/05/2017. Currently: Senior Analytics Developer at SenseOn.

completed grants:

Supervisor in Analysis and application of quantum spatial search – reserch project funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the ETIUDA call, 01.10.2019 - 01.10.2020
MC Member of COST Action CA15220 Quantum Technologies in Space – European Cooperation in Science and Technology action, 20.10.2016 - 19.10.2020.
PI in Methods of development, modelling and analysis of quantum internetworking protocols – research project funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the SONATA call, 03.09.2012 - 02.09.2017.
PI in Application of quantum and classical memory in quantum network exploration – research project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under Iuventus Plus programme, 24.02.2015 - 23.02.2017.
Advisor in the project Minimization of disturbance in quantum walk based algorithms and protocols – research project funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the PRELUDIUM call, 15.07.2014 - 14.07.2017.
PI in the project Application of geometrical methods for the analysis of quantum states and operations – research project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 30.03.2012 - 29.03.2014.
PI in the project Application of quantum game theory in modelling of quantum information transmission – research project funded by the Polish National Science Center, 20.04.2011 - 19.04.2013.
PI in the project Analysis and modelling of local properties of quantum states and operations – research project funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 24.05.2011 - 23.05.2012.

projects:

Quantiki quantum Wiki project developed in cooperation with National University of Singapore, which you can follow on Twitter or Facebook.
QuantumWalk package for modeling algorithms based on quantum walks in Julia.
QSWalk package for Julia programming language which enables high-performance analysis of quantum stochastic walks.
TurcjaWSandalach.pl portal for independent travelers and its Facebook page (in Polish).
Turkish Archaeological News portal providing news about the latest archaeological discoveries in Turkey or related with history of Anatolia. Check out its Facebook page for the recent news and photos.

past projects:

RandFile package for Mathematica which allows the exploitation of local files as sources of random data.
TRQS package for Mathematica for using true random numbers.
QI package for Mathematica, which implements number of functions used in the analysis of quantum states.
IntU package for Mathematica for integrating over U(n) with respect to the Haar measure.
GNU/PolSl lectures organized in 2007 (in Polish).
Wieze Hanoi (Towers of Hanoi) game for mobiles I wrote in Java in 2002. Source code and project report (in Polish).
Diary and photos from Turkey tour 2005 trip around Turkey.
Package quantum-octave for GNU Octave and Matlab.
For some time (2006-2011) I was an editor for the Open Directory Project (dmoz.org).
From 2016 to 2018 I served as a managing editor for Theoretical and Applied Informatics, open access journal publishing results in the full scope of computer science.

random quotation:

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
– Milan Kundera

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