Challenges and opportunities in quantum optimization
- Amira Abbas
- Andris Ambainis
- et al.
- 2024
- Nature Reviews Physics
Stefan Woerner
Title
Manager, Quantum Computational Science
Bio
Dr. Stefan Woerner is a Principal Research Scientist and Manager of the Quantum Computational Science group of IBM Quantum at IBM Research Europe - Zurich. He received a Master of Science in Applied Mathematics from ETH Zurich in 2010, and a Doctor of Sciences in Operations Management from ETH Zurich in 2013 for his thesis on Convex Optimization in Supply Chain Management. Stefan is renowned for his work in quantum finance, quantum optimization, and quantum machine learning. He has authored key papers, supervised PhD students, and given invited talks at major conferences and institutions.
Publications
Quantum Theory and Application of Contextual Optimal Transport
- Nicola Mariella
- Albert Akhriev
- et al.
- 2024
- ICML 2024
Quantum Optimization for Multi-objective Optimization
- 2024
- ISMP 2024
Quantum Theory and Application of Contextual Optimal Transport
- 2023
- NeurIPS 2023
From Tight Gradient Bounds for Parameterized Quantum Circuits to the Absence of Barren Plateaus in QGANs
- Alistair Letcher
- Stefan Woerner
- et al.
- 2023
- QTML 2023
Tight and Efficient Gradient Bounds for Parameterized Quantum Circuits
- Alistair Letcher
- Stefan Woerner
- et al.
- 2024
- ML-Obergurgl 2024
Stochastic Approximation of Variational Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution
- 2023
- QCE 2023
Quantum Kernel Alignment with Stochastic Gradient Descent
- Gian Gentinetta
- David Sutter
- et al.
- 2023
- QCE 2023
Towards quantum-enabled cell-centric therapeutics
- Saugata Basu
- Jannis Born
- et al.
- 2023
- arXiv
Scaling Generative Quantum Machine Learning
- 2023
- APS March Meeting 2023
Patents
- US
- 12190201
- CN
- ZL201980053018.9
- US
- 12136021
- CN
- ZL202080032022.X
- US
- 11960969
- US
- 11816594
- US
- 11809964
- US
- 11734598
- JP
- 7335330
- US
- 11728011
Blog posts
New Quantum Optimization Benchmarking Library invites researchers to put algorithms to the test
ResearchChrista Zoufal, Stefan Woerner, and Robert DavisExploring the potential for quantum advantage in mathematical optimization
ResearchStefan Woerner, Ryan Mandelbaum, and Robert DavisThe power of quantum neural networks
ResearchAmira Abbas, David Sutter, and Stefan Woerner5 minute readNew Qiskit design: Introducing Qiskit application modules
ReleaseMatthew Treinish, Ali Javadi-Abhari, and Stefan Woerner3 minute read
Top collaborators
CZ
Christa Zoufal
Quantum Applications Researcher
SZ
Sergiy Zhuk
Senior Research Scientist and Manager, Quantum Dynamics & Applications
JB
Jannis Born
Research Scientist in AI for Scientific Discovery
NM
Nicola Mariella
Senior Research Scientist