Chair for Design Automation

Oct 16, 2026: Damian Rovara gives a talk on “Quantum Optimization and the Munich Quantum Toolkit” at the “Quantum Hackathon” organized by the Quantum Social Lab at TUM Think Tank, Munich.

Oct 6–8, 2026: Lukas Burgholzer, Fiona Fröhler, Damian Rovara, Yudong Sun, Yannick Stade, and Robert Wille participate in the Annual Meeting of the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) in Eichstätt and present their contributions within the Munich Quantum Valley on

• New Developments in Compilation for Neutral Atom-based Quantum Computing,
• Fault-Tolerance-Aware Compilation of the Bacon-Shor Code, and
• The MQT Compiler Collection: An MLIR Ecosystem for Quantum Compilation.

Sep 30, 2026: A video summarizing our attendance and contributions to the IEEE Quantum Week 2026 is now online. Watch it here.

Sep 22, 2026: Robert Wille has been appointed member of the Program Committee of the 4th International Workshop on Quantum Software-Engineering Tools, Algorithms & Verification (Q-STAV 2027), co-located with SE 2027 in Dortmund.

Sep 17, 2026: Hsuan-Chu Chen successfully completed the Master thesis entitled “Lattice Surgery Compilation for Topological Quantum Error Correcting Codes”. Congratulations!

Sep 17, 2026: Our work on “Handling Imperfections in Subcircuit Compilation for Linear Optical Quantum Computing” has been awarded the Best Paper Award (3rd Place) at the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE).