{"id":61,"date":"2026-02-07T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T12:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qcai.uma.es\/2026\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:50:35","slug":"schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qcai.uma.es\/2026\/schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

9:00 am – 10:30 am: Welcome and Keynote  (Session Chair: Francisco Chicano and Shaukat Ali) <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

9:00 am – 9:15 am: Welcome<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:15 am – 10:15 am: Keynote by Jayne Thompson (Nanyang Technological University), Saving resources with Quantum Agents<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30 am – 11:00 am: Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Quantum Optimization<\/strong> (Session Chair: Amanjot Bhullar )<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:00 am – 11:20 am: Akihiro Yoshida, Keiichiro Yamamura, Hiroki Ishikura, Shinjiro Hirai, Ken Kawano, Yoshihiko Fujisawa, Katsuki Fujisawa, QUBO-Based Subset Selection for Efficient Fine-Tuning of Vision\u2012Language Models (Full)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:20 am – 11:40 am: Monit Sharma, Hoong Chuin Lau, Learning-Based Graph Shrinking for Quantum Optimization of Constrained Combinatorial Problems (Full, 15+5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:40 am – 12:00 pm: Monit Sharma, Hoong Chuin Lau, Hybrid Learning and Optimization methods for solving Capacitated Vehicle Routing (Full)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:00 pm – 12:15 pm: Georgios Korpas, Wayne Lin, Iosif Sakos, Antonios Varvitsiotis, Global Optimization for Training VQAs (Lighting Talk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:15 pm – 12:30 pm: Philippe Codognet, A New Model of the Costas Array Problem in QUBO for Quantum Annealing (Lighting Talk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Quantum Machine Learning (Session Chair: <\/strong>Philippe Codognet<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:00 pm – 2:20 pm: Hrvoje Kukina, Clemens Heitzinger, Hybrid Quantum\u2013Classical Framework for Acute Hypotension Control (Full)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:20 pm – 2:40 pm: Sangeeta Yadav, Roshan Dsouza, Ishaan Sood, Souvik Souvik, Harshit Yadav, Quantum Kernel Methods for Brain Aneurysm Risk Classification (Full)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2:40 pm – 3:00 pm: Rabimba Karanjai, Hemanth Madhavarao, Lei Xu, Weidong Shi, QuCoWE: Quantum Contrastive Word Embeddings with Variational Circuits for Near-Term Quantum Devices (Full)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:00 pm – 3:20 pm: Haribandhu Jena, Jyotirmaya Shivottam, Subhankar Mishra, QGShap: Quantum Acceleration for Faithful GNN Explanations (Full)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:20 pm – 3:35 pm: Hans Gundlach, Hrvoje Kukina, Jayson Lynch, Neil Thompson, Quantum Deep Learning Still Needs a Quantum Leap (Lightning Talk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3:35 pm – 4:00 pm: Coffee Break <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:00 pm – 4:45 pm: Panel (Session Chairs: Shaukat Ali and Francisco Chicano)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm: Closing (Session Chair: Francisco Chicano and Shaukat Ali)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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