As part as its 50th anniversary celebrations, IRISA will be welcoming computer research experts throughout 2025 as part of its “guests of the month” series.
In October, Professor Manuel Wimmer (JKU Linz, Austria), will present a talk on Tuesday 28th, as part of the ECSS 2025 event in Rennes.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
09:30 ⭢ 10:30
Inria Conference center
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Quantum Software ante portas
Quantum computing has received vast interest in recent years due to its potential to solve computational problems intractable on even the best classical computers. While early research focused on the physical realization of this potential, recent advances in quantum computing hardware raise the question: how can we best use such machines? Because quantum computers are based on fundamentally different principles than the computers we are used to, existing intuitions and best practices of software engineering often cannot be transferred to quantum software. Therefore, we need new methods, techniques, and tools as well as a new generation of well-trained software engineers to efficiently and effectively develop software for quantum computers.
In this talk, I will present how we approach this new field from a software engineering perspective. While software engineering research developed several useful abstraction layers for classical computers, such abstractions do not yet exist in quantum software. How to deal with this situation by applying model-based and search-based techniques to engineer quantum software is one of the main research questions we are currently investigating.
To conclude my talk, I will broaden the scope and outline the current research landscape in the field of quantum software engineering and what is required to train the first generation of quantum-native software engineers.
More about Manuel Wimmer:
Manuel Wimmer is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Business Informatics – Software Engineering at JKU Linz, Austria. Since 2019, he is also the Program Director of the Business Informatics master study at JKU Linz.
He received his Ph.D. and his Habilitation from TU Wien. He has been a research associate at the University of Malaga, Spain, a visiting professor at the University of Marburg, Germany and at TU Munich, Germany, and an assistant professor at the Business Informatics Group (BIG), TU Wien, Austria.
From 2017-2023 he was leading the Christian Doppler Laboratory on Model-Integrated Smart Production (CDL-MINT). In this context, Manuel has developed different engineering approaches for digital twins.
He is the JKU Linz representative in the AutomationML society. He is co-author of the book Model-driven Software Engineering in Practice (Morgan & Claypool, 2nd edition, 2017).
For a list of scientific publications see the entries in DBLP and Google Scholar.
This talk is part of IRISA's 50th anniversary celebrations.
More details about the program on the dedicated page of our website.
