PRR Project

Summary

Job description : The field of Quantum Computing (QC) offers the potential to make valuable contributions to computer science and informatics engineering disciplines and significantly impact in various societal domains. Although the advances in QC technologies have been slow to be adopted in practical scenarios, specific advances have shown the potential of QC circuits to provide complementary hardware accelerators suitable for specific algorithms and providing tremendous performance speedups.With this Assistant Professor position, we expect contributions to the creation and teaching of advanced courses in QC (in FEUP DEI’s main Master’s Program in Informatics and Computing Engineering, and in the Doctoral Program in Informatics Engineering), to the supervision of MSc and PhD students in QC topics, and to cutting edge research on techniques to develop and map algorithms to QC circuits. We expect the preparation of project proposals mainly involving QC and research results to be published in top-level conferences and journals. Scientific profile : PhD degree in Informatics Engineering, Computer Science, or Electrical and Computer Engineering, with an emphasis on the development of QC algorithms programming languages and techniques for mapping those languages to quantum circuits. Rationale for the need to hire : At the moment, the FEUP’s Informatics Engineering Department does not have any faculty member with a background in QC and specifically conducting research in this domain. The Master´s and Ph.D. programs at DEI aim to include courses on QC while developing strong links between those courses and research activities on QC. An Assistant Professor with a strong background in QC would provide the department with the scientific profile for the required research activities and prepare young generations for quantum computing.