Physical Electronics Guest Seminar :Array Antenna Analysis and Synthesis Through Quantum Computing Methods

Guest Seminar on Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 17:00

Room 011,  Kitot Building

Title: Array Antenna Analysis and Synthesis Through Quantum Computing Methods - An Introduction

Prof. Paolo Rocca

The University of Trento

Abstract

We are assisting nowadays to an explosive advancement in quantum information processing technology that has the potential to revolutionize society through the use of quantum computers, quantum communication systems, and quantum sensors. Antenna and electromagnetic engineering is no exception, as it will greatly benefit from the development of these new quantum technologies. This seminar is aimed to provide an introduction to electrical engineers on the emerging technology of quantum computing. Specifically, starting from the fundamental unit of the quantum information processing, the qubit, the seminar will present how quantum computing algorithms and optimization methods are useful for solving electromagnetic optimization problems such as antenna array analysis and synthesis. 

Biography

Paolo Rocca (IEEE Fellow 2023) received the MS degree in Telecommunications Engineering (summa cum laude) in 2005 and the PhD Degree in Information and Communication Technologies in 2008 from the University of Trento, Italy. He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering (University of Trento), Huashan Scholar Chair Professor at the Xidian University, Xi'an, China, and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center. Moreover, he is Member of the Big Data and AI Working Group for the Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies (CEIT) of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO). Prof. Rocca received the National Scientific Qualification for the position of Full Professor in Italy and France in April 2017 and January 2020, respectively.

Prof. Rocca is author/co-author of 5 book chapters, more than 175 journal papers and 300 conference papers. He has been a visiting Ph.D. student at the Pennsylvania State University (USA), at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (Italy), and a visiting researcher at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes (L2S@ Supèlec, France) in 2012 and 2013. Moreover, he has been an Invited Professor at the University of Paris Sud (France) in 2015 and at the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 2017. Prof. Rocca has been awarded from the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the Italy Section with the best PhD thesis award IEEE-GRS Central Italy Chapter. His main interests are in the framework of artificial intelligence techniques as applied to electromagnetics, antenna array synthesis and analysis, electromagnetic inverse scattering, and quantum computing for electromagnetic engineering. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2011-2016), the Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (2019-2020) and serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (since 2020), and of Engineering (since 2020). 

סמינר זה יחשב כסמינר שמיעה לתלמידי תואר שני ושלישי- This Seminar Is Considered A Hearing Seminar For Msc/Phd Students