Projects

• QGATE
• TAQO-PAM
• NaQuaMo

Publications

2026

To Appear IEEE Conference
A Reality Check on Quantum Optimisation: Evidence from an Industrial Case Study

Hila Safi, Karen Wintersperger, Oliver von Sicard, Christoph Niedermeier, Wolfgang MauererIEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)IEEE Computer Society2026.
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BibTex Entry

@inproceedings{safi:26:reality,
 _eprint = {TODO},
 _url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/TODO},
 address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
 archiveprefix = {arXiv},
 author = {Hila Safi and Karen Wintersperger and Oliver {von Sicard} and
Christoph Niedermeier and Wolfgang Mauerer},
 booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
 doi = {},
 entrysubtype = {Conference},
 month = {9},
 publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
 title = {A Reality Check on Quantum Optimisation: Evidence from an Industrial Case Study},
 userd = {IEEE QCE '26},
 year = {2026}
}

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2025

IEEE Conference
TWiDDle: Twirling and Dynamical Decoupling, and Crosstalk Noise Modeling

Hila Safi, Christoph Niedermeier, Wolfgang MauererIEEE QSET@QCE2025.
PDF 10.1109/QCE65121.2025.10313 [BibTex]

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@inproceedings{safi:25:twiddle,
 author = {Safi, Hila and Niedermeier, Christoph and Mauerer, Wolfgang},
 booktitle = {IEEE QSET@QCE},
 doi = {10.1109/QCE65121.2025.10313},
 entrysubtype = {Conference},
 month = {7},
 title = {{TWiDDle: Twirling and Dynamical Decoupling, and
Crosstalk Noise Modeling}},
 userd = {IEEE QCE '25},
 year = {2025}
}

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EPJ
Stacking the Odds: Full-Stack Quantum System Design Space Exploration

Hila Safi, Medina Bandic, Christoph Niedermeier, Carmen G. Almudever, Sebastian Feld, Wolfgang MauererEPJ Quantum Technology2025.
PDF 10.1140/epjqt/s40507-025-00413-7 Reproduction Package [BibTex]

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@article{safi:25:stacking,
 archiveprefix = {arXiv},
 author = {Hila Safi and Medina Bandic and Christoph Niedermeier and Carmen G. Almudever and Sebastian Feld and Wolfgang Mauerer},
 doi = {10.1140/epjqt/s40507-025-00413-7},
 eprint = {2506.02782},
 journal = {EPJ Quantum Technology},
 month = {06},
 primaryclass = {quant-ph},
 title = {Stacking the Odds: Full-Stack Quantum System Design Space Exploration},
 url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02782},
 userd = {EPJ},
 year = {2025}
}

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2024

IEEE Workshop
Approximating under the Influence of Quantum Noise and Compute Power

Simon Thelen, Hila Safi, Wolfgang MauererProceedings of WIHPQC@IEEE QCE2024.
PDF 10.1109/QCE60285.2024.10291 Reproduction Package [BibTex]

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@inproceedings{thelen:24:noisy-qaoa,
 author = {Simon Thelen and Hila Safi and Wolfgang Mauerer},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of WIHPQC@IEEE QCE},
 doi = {10.1109/QCE60285.2024.10291},
 entrysubtype = {Workshop},
 eprint = {2408.02287},
 month = {09},
 title = {Approximating under the Influence of Quantum Noise and Compute Power},
 url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02287},
 userd = {IEEE QCE '24},
 year = {2024}
}

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SIGMOD Workshop A*
Quantum Data Encoding Patterns and their Consequences

Martin Gogeißl, Hila Safi, Wolfgang MauererProceedings of the Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications2024.
PDF 10.1145/3665225.3665446 Reproduction Package [BibTex]

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@inproceedings{gogeissl:24:qdata,
 author = {Gogeißl, Martin and Safi, Hila and Mauerer, Wolfgang},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications},
 doi = {10.1145/3665225.3665446},
 entrysubtype = {Workshop},
 month = {08},
 series = {Q-Data '24},
 title = {Quantum Data Encoding Patterns and their Consequences},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3665225.3665446},
 userc = {CORE22:A*},
 userd = {SIGMOD '24},
 year = {2024}
}

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2023

IEEE Conference
Influence of HW-SW-Co-Design on Quantum Computing Scalability

Hila Safi, Karen Wintersperger, Wolfgang Mauerer2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW)2023.
PDF 10.1109/QSW59989.2023.00022 Reproduction Package [BibTex]

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@inproceedings{safi:23:codesign,
 author = {Safi, Hila and Wintersperger, Karen and Mauerer, Wolfgang},
 booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Software (QSW)},
 doi = {10.1109/QSW59989.2023.00022},
 entrysubtype = {Conference},
 keywords = {quantum computing, software engineering, hardware-software co-design, quantum algorithm performance analysis, scalability of quantum applications},
 language = {en},
 pages = {104-115},
 title = {Influence of HW-SW-Co-Design on Quantum Computing Scalability},
 userd = {IEEE QSW '23},
 year = {2023}
}

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2022

QPU-System Co-Design for Quantum HPC Accelerators

Karen Wintersperger, Hila Safi, Wolfgang MauererProceedings of the 35th GI/ITG International Conference on the Architecture of Computing SystemsGesellschaft für Informatik2022.
PDF 10.1007/978-3-031-21867-5_7 Reproduction Package [BibTex]

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@inproceedings{wintersperger:22:codes,
 archiveprefix = {arXiv},
 author = {Wintersperger, Karen and Safi, Hila and Mauerer, Wolfgang},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th GI/ITG International Conference on the Architecture of Computing Systems},
 doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-21867-5_7},
 editor = {Schulz, Martin and Trinitis, Carsten and Papadopoulou, Nikela
and Pionteck, Thilo},
 eprint = {2208.11449},
 isbn = {978-3-031-21867-5},
 month = {8},
 pages = {100--114},
 primaryclass = {cs.AR},
 publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik},
 title = {QPU-System Co-Design for Quantum HPC Accelerators},
 url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11449},
 year = {2022}
}

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Supervised Theses

2023