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:

The 4th IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (IEEE QSW 2025), July 7-12 2025, Helsinki, Finland
Quantum Computing Thematic Track in conjunction with the International Conference on Computational Science, July 7-9, 2025, Singapure.
QP 2025 International Workshop on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Quantum Programming, 2-6 June 2025, Prague, Czechia
International Conference On Quantum Software (IQSOFT), 10-12 June 2025, Bilbao, Spain.

recent publications:

Katarzyna Gawlak, Jarosław Konieczny, Krzysztof Domino, Jarosław A. Miszczak, Statistical analysis of geoinformation data for increasing railway safety, Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, Vol. 34, pp. 100517 (2025), DOI:10.1016/j.jrtpm.2025.100517 arXiv:2406.01083. [PDF]
Krzysztof Domino, Arkadiusz Sochan, Jarosław Adam Miszczak, Analytical assessment of workers' safety concerning direct and indirect ways of getting infected by dangerous pathogen, Journal of Computational Science, Vol. 85, 102509 (2025). arXiv:2409.16809, DOI:10.1016/j.jocs.2024.102509 [PDF]
Aritra Sarkar, Akash Kundu, Matthew Steinberg, Sibasish Mishra, Sebastiaan Fauquenot, Tamal Acharya, Jarosław A Miszczak, Sebastian Feld, YAQQ: Yet Another Quantum Quantizer--Design Space Exploration of Quantum Gate Sets using Novelty Search, arXiv:2406.17610 (2024).
Mateusz Żarski, Jarosław A. Miszczak, Multi-step feature fusion for natural disaster damage assessment on satellite images, IEEE Access, Vol. 12, pp. 140072-140081, arXiv:2410.21901 DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3459424 (2024).
Jarosław A. Miszczak, Short Lessons on Wolfram Language: Programming, Data Processing, Graphics, Machine Learning, and Quantum Computing with Mathematica, ISBN: 978-83-66950-01-6, Quoqa Pubs, 2024. [Amazon.com] [Amazon.co.uk] [PDF at ICM OPEN] [More info]
Akash Kundu, Przemysław Bedełek, Mateusz Ostaszewski, Onur Danaci, Yash J. Patel, Vedran Dunjko, Jarosław 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

research projects:

Management Committee member of COST Action CA23115 - Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI) (09/2024 - 09/2028)
WG participant of COST Action CA23141 - Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA) (09/2024 - 09/2028)

More information

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

editing:

Editorial Board Member of Quantum Information & Computation (since 2024).

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.

editorial boards:

Editorial board member of Quantum Information & Computation (since October 2024).

postdocs supervision:

Özlem Salehi Köken (2020-2023)

students supervision:

Ludmila Botelho, 2020-2025. PhD thesis Theory and Applications of Hybrid Quantum-Classical Optimization Algorithms defended on the 14th March 2025. Currently: Software Engineerr at AlgorithmiQ.
Akash Kundu, 2020-2024, PhD thesis Reinforcement learning-assisted quantum architecture search for variational quantum algorithms defended on the 30th September 2024. Currently: Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki.
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 Data Scientist at Addepto.

completed grants:

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.
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 - 19.04.2021.
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.

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