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IEEE QCE 2026 SIPQ Workshop

NSF Workshop on Signal and Information Processing in the Quantum Era (SIPQ)

IEEE Quantum Week / QCE, September 13-18, 2026, Toronto, Canada

This NSF workshop is dedicated to bring the quantum community and the classical signal processing and information theory community together to explore emerging topics in the intersection of the two fields. The participants will learn advanced signal and information processing techniques and identify new research frontiers in the quantum era.
Workshop flyer.
Workshop schedule.

Workshop participants must register for IEEE QCE 2026 to be able to attend the workshop.

Workshop participants are requested to fill out this google form by 31st Aug 2026.

Poster Details: The maximum allowable dimensions for posters are –
width 36″ (92 cm) and height 48” (122 cm).

Checkout the list of poster presentations.

  • Call for workshop extended abstract is now closed. Detailed agenda will be updated soon.
    • Submit 3-page extended abstract via EasyChair https://easychair.org/cfp/QCE26 by July 6, 2026 (23:59 AoE).
    • In the submission, please make sure to indicate: (i) whether the submission should be considered to be published as part of the IEEE QCE conference proceedings; (ii) whether you are applying for student/postdoc travel fund through this workshop.

Workshop Theme

Signal and information processing have long provided the conceptual and algorithmic backbone of modern computing and communications, shaping how we represent, transform, compress, infer, and control information in the presence of noise and resource constraints. As quantum information science matures, these foundational ideas are being reinterpreted in a new regime where signals are quantum states, measurements are intrinsically probabilistic, and hardware spans diverse physical modalities. This workshop explores Signal and Information Processing in the Quantum Era by bringing together the quantum computing community and researchers in classical signal processing and information theory to develop a shared language, identify common principles, and chart emerging research frontiers at their intersection.

A central theme is how quantum resources expand or reshape traditional signal-processing tasks—such as spectral analysis, filtering, estimation, learning, and error mitigation—while respecting quantum limits on information extraction and disturbance. The workshop also highlights opportunities enabled by hybrid quantum platforms that combine discrete-variable systems (e.g., qubits) and continuous-variable systems (e.g., oscillators), motivating “mixed analog–digital” perspectives on quantum signal processing. Through invited talks and interactive discussions, participants will learn advanced techniques spanning quantum signal processing primitives, hybrid encodings and transduction, algorithm–hardware co-design, and information-theoretic performance bounds. The workshop aims to catalyze cross-community collaborations and produce a coherent agenda for scalable, reliable, and application-relevant signal and information processing on near-term and future quantum processors.

  • Topics of Interest
    • Digital and analog quantum signal processing (both theory and experiments)
    • Continuous-variable and hybrid continuous-discrete-variable platforms
    • Quantum spectral analysis, filtering, estimation, and detection
    • Quantum communications and quantum networking
    • Information-theoretic limits in quantum systems
    • Transduction, encoding, and control in hybrid quantum systems
    • Applications in learning, inference, optimization, sensing, and metrology
    • Submissions bridging quantum information science with classical signal
      processing, communications, estimation, coding, learning, or optimization are
      especially encouraged.


Objectives

The main objectives of the workshop are as follows:

  • Discuss state-of-the-art research on the following topics: quantum signal processing, continuous-variable quantum systems, and fault-tolerant quantum computing.
  • Identify key open problems on how quantum information science can advance or alter the landscape of future information and signal processing techniques in the quantum era.
  • Pinpoint the key challenges toward solving these open questions, with the goal of drafting a joint white paper report on these topics from key participants.

The longer term vision is to foster the formation of a new community at the intersection of quantum information science and classical signal processing and electrical engineering. We hope this workshop will be the start of a regular gathering of this new community in the IEEE conferences and fields.


Schedule


The workshop will be 4.5 hours (270 mins) long on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, Room 718A. There will be two sessions (each 80 mins), focusing on quantum signal processing and continuous-variable quantum systems, respectively. Each session will have 1 invited talk and 3 selected contributed talks (20 mins each). This will be followed by a panel discussion (45 mins) and a poster session (45 mins).

The schedule of the workshop is as follows (invited talk details to follow):

  • Session I, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT, Room 718A: Quantum Signal Processing & Algorithms
    • Yuan Liu, North Carolina State University
    • Analytical Approach to Quantum Control using Quantum Signal Processing
    • QSearchNet: Quantum Walk Search for Graph Link Inference
    • Reliable Sample-Level Quantum Error Mitigation via Dominance-Aware Clustering
  • Session II, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EDT, Room 718A: Continuous-Variable Quantum Systems & Quantum Communications
    • Invited Talk: Saikat Guha, University of Maryland
      Title: The role of continuous variable photonics in capacity approaching quantum communications 
      Abstract: Quantum communications is the act of transmission of qubits reliably over a noisy channel, or equivalently, establishing entanglement—stored in quantum memory registers at the two ends of a noisy channel—by transmitting quantum states of light over the channel. Quantum communications is often assisted by two-way classical communications. In this talk, I will review the primary well known protocols for heralded entanglement generation and discuss some recent results and an open quantum measurement design problem, which will elucidate the important role that genuinely continuous variable quantum states of light such as GKP, coherent states, and cat-like superpositions must play in achieveing the fundamental capacity—reliable communications rate—of quantum communications.

      Bio: Dr. Saikat Guha is a Clark Distinguished Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park and Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks (CQN). His research focuses on quantum optics, information theory, and photonic information processing for next-generation optical sensing, communications and quantum networking. Previously, he was an Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Arizona and a Lead Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies. He holds a B.Tech. from EE IIT Kanpur and an S.M. and Ph.D. from EECS MIT. Dr. Guha is an IEEE Fellow.
    • European Quantum Antenna and Optical Receiver (EQuAntOR)
    • QAOA-Based Pilot Assignment for Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems
    • Quantum Contextual Representations for Efficient Goal-Oriented Semantic Communication
  • Session III, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EDT
    • Panel Discussion (45 mins)
    • Poster Session (45 mins)

Poster Presentations:
1. Quantum stochastic sensing and exponential advantage; Vladimir Kremenetski
2. Quantum computational displacement sensing; Sridhar Prabhu
3. Can Teleportation Enhance Quantum Walks on Complex Networks?; Priyank Dubey
4. Quantum sensors that compute: Quantum computational magnetic field sensing using a superconducting circuit; Purnendu Sen
5. Toward Compact Multiqubit Gates on Trapped Ions: A Hardware-Aware Pulse Synthesis; Kevin Jofroit Joven Noriega
6. CV Quantum Steganography via TMSV State; Kent Hutchinson and Bruno Avritzer

We have received generous support from the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) of NSF to provide up to 35 travel awards to students and postdocs to attend IEEE QCE and our workshop.

Organizers