jarek miszczak

about:

Jarek Miszczak, June 2020

I'm a researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics, Polish Academy of Sciences. I work on quantum information theory, complex systems, and programming languages.

open positions:

If you are interested in working on quantum information theory in Quantum Information Group at IITiS PAN, contact me at miszczak[at]iitis[dot]pl

events:

Quantum Computing Thematic Track organized as a part of International Conference on Computational Science (June 2021).
Online seminars organized by QWorld
~~Quantum Computing Thematic Track in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science, 3-5.06.2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.~~
~~Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020, 23-26.03.2020, Warsaw, Poland.~~

recent publications:

B. Wójcik, M. Żarski, K. Książek, J.A. Miszczak, M.J. Skibniewski, Hard hat wearing detection based on head keypoint localization, 2106.10944 (2021)
Ö. Salehi, A. Glos, J.A. Miszczak, Unconstrained Binary Models of the Travelling Salesman Problem Variants for Quantum Optimization, arXiv:2106.09056 (2021).

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), Department of Applied Mathematics, Silesian University of Technology, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021.
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.

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 - 29.01.2023.
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.

students supervision:

Akash Kundu, 2020-
Ludmila Botelho, 2020-
A. Glos, 2017-
M. Ostaszewski, 2018-2020, PhD thesis Application on machine learning in quantum computer science defended summa cum laude, 28/05/2020.
P. Sadowski, 2012-2017, PhD thesis Quantum walks: various models and their algorithmic applications defended summa cum laude, 10/05/2017. Currently: Senior Researcher at Fujitsu Laboratories.

completed grants:

Participant in the project Semantic tensor networks for large data sets analysis – research project funded by the Polish National Science Centre under the OPUS call, 30.09.2015 - 29.03.2019
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:

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
– Edsger Dijkstra

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