LECS
Laboratory for Emerging Computing Systems
Concordia University · Montréal

Articles & research notes.

Long-form writing from members of the lab — research notes accompanying recent papers, engineering write-ups, and the occasional reflection on the practice of running an architecture group.

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Three LECS papers head to IEEE NEWCAS 2026
Jun 21, 2026 Conference

Three LECS papers head to IEEE NEWCAS 2026

Our group presents three works at IEEE NEWCAS 2026 in Chicoutimi — two on quantum computing and one on ReRAM-based graph acceleration. A short tour of what each paper contributes.

Forecasting with a variational quantum algorithm — inside Qortex's Mil'HaQ Fest win
Nov 21, 2025 Hackathon

Forecasting with a variational quantum algorithm — inside Qortex's Mil'HaQ Fest win

How team Qortex used a variational quantum algorithm — a parametrized circuit trained in a hybrid quantum-classical loop and run on IBM's ibm_quebec processor — to forecast a financial time series, and took first place in the Quantum Machine Learning track at Mila's Mil'HaQ Fest 2025.