One of our PhD students, Maria Isfan, participated to the IEEE Quantum Week that took place between 17-22 September 2023 in Bellevue, Washington Hyatt Regency Bellevue on Seattle's Eastside.

Maria held an oral presentation within the Quantum AI Workshop with the title “Classification of Gravitational Waves Using Neural Networks on Quantum Computers”. In this study, her, dr. Ana Caramete and dr. Laurentiu Caramete evaluate the feasibility of using quantum neural networks for classifying gravitational waveforms, using both simulators and quantum computers. The analysis is quite interdisciplinary in its nature, combining knowledge involving astrophysics, quantum information as well as quantum and classical machine learning. On one hand, we showed that the quantum classifiers and hybrid classical-quantum neural networks give maximally accurate results when tested on a simple dataset and ran on a simulator. On the other hand, we showed that quantum neural networks (ran on a simulator) can distinguish with high accuracy between noisy gravitational waves and noise, for LISA space mission specific simulated data. Moreover, we showed that adding a quantum layer to poorly performing classical neural network can highly improve its accuracy. When running any of our quantum algorithms on a real quantum computer, error minimising algorithms need to be implemented in order to obtain a satisfying accuracy.

More details about the conference can be found on its website.