IEEE qCCL 2026 Award Winners Announced


Congratulations to the recipients of the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Poster Awards.

🏆 Best Paper Awards

  • Alexander Popov, Nico Meyer, Daniel D. Scherer and Guido Dietl

    for the paper entitled

    “Optimized Compilation of Logical Clifford Circuits”

  • Yuan-Hung Kuan and Jr-Shin Li

    for the paper entitled

    “Quantum Ensemble Control in Bose–Einstein Condensates”

🏆 Best Student Paper Awards

  • Sofiane Chalal, Nina H. Amini, Hamed Amini and Mathieu Laurière

    for the paper entitled

    “Dynamic Programming Principle and Stabilization for Mean-Field Quantum Filtering Systems”

  • Jiarui Hu, Wenzhi Chen, Shipra Singh and Lijun Chen

    for the paper entitled

    “An Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Sparse Linear Bandits via Smoothed Exploration”

🏆 Best Poster Awards

*Best Poster Awards were determined by votes cast by conference participants during the poster session..

  • Uncovering Latent Structures in Robust Pulse Design: A Physics-Informed Neural Network Approach for Efficient Optimal Control

    for the poster entitled

    “Tobias Kiermeyer, Thomas Heydenreich, Leo Van Damme, Sebastian Hohenemser, Florian Marquardt, and Steffen Glaser”

  • Ban Tran, Nahid Binandeh Dehaghani, Rafal Wisniewski, Susan Mengel and A. Pedro Aguiar

    for the poster entitled

    “Quantum-Assisted Trainable-Embedding Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Parabolic PDEs”