Awards, collaborations, milestones, and updates from the Laboratory for Emerging Computing Systems.
Our group presents three works at the IEEE NEWCAS 2026 conference in Chicoutimi, Québec (June 21–24, 2026): Jean-Baptiste Waring and Milad Eslaminia present their respective works on quantum computing, and Masoud Rahimi presents his work on graph accelerators.
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Ismael Barzani and team Qortex won first place in the Quantum Machine Learning track at the Mil'HaQ Fest 2025 hackathon, hosted by Mila — Quebec AI Institute, applying variational quantum algorithms and parametrized circuits to options-pricing forecasting.
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