Reception
Welcome, Chats, Snacks, and Drinks
5-7 PM, Aug 6, 2026
Tudor Room, Indiana University, Indiana Memorial Union
Opening
8:20-8:30 AM, Aug 7th 2026
Whittenberger Auditorium,
IU Memorial
Union
Introductory Remarks: Some Thoughts on Preparing Universities for the Quantum Age
Michael A. McRobbie, Indiana University
8:30-9:15 AM, Aug 7th 2026
Whittenberger Auditorium,
IU Memorial
Union
AI for Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing
Monica VanDieren, NVIDIA
(Introduced by Larry Moss)
9:15-10:00 AM, Aug 7th 2026
Whittenberger Auditorium,
IU Memorial
Union
Section 1 Talks: AI for Quantum
(State Room East; Chair:
Samuel Yen-Chi Chen)
- Enhancing Interpretability of Quantum-Assisted Blockchain Clustering via AI Agent-Based Qualitative Analysis (Yun-Cheng Tsai1, Yen-Ku Liu1, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen2; 1National Taiwan Normal University; 2Wells Fargo)
- Entanglement-Guided Stochastic Regularization for Robust Deep Learning (Aayush Gauba; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)
- Cirquitous: A Possible Exploration of Solving Quantum Circuit Challenges Using Human Natural Language (Mithun Paul; University of Arizona, USA)
- Quantum Machine Learning Next-gen wireless: future and path ahead (Shalini L, Srividya Bhat; Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, India)
Section 2 Talks: Quantum NLP (Georgian Room; Chair: Juan Uriagereka)
- Graph Transformer for NLP Sentiment Classification (Shamminuj Aktar1, Andreas Bärtschi1, Stephan Eidenbenz1, Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy2; 1Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA; 2New Mexico State University, USA)
- Quantum NLP model on Natural Language Inference (Ling Sun; Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
- A quantum semantic framework for natural language processing (Christopher Agostino1, Quan Le Thien2, Molly Apsel2, Denizhan Pak2, Elina Lesyk3, Ashibari Majumdar4; 1NPC Worldwide; 2Indiana University, USA; 3Independent Consultant; 4University of Notre Dame, USA)
- Old Wine in New Bottles: Using Classical Word Embeddings in Quantum NLP Systems (Damir Cavar, Koushik Reddy Parukola, James Bryan Graves, Shane Sparks; Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM, Aug 7th 2026
IU Memorial Union
Poster Session
12:30-1:30 PM, Aug 7th 2026
Whittenberger Auditorium,
IU Memorial
Union
Panel 1
Joanna Millunchick, Ismael Faro, Cedric Lin
1:45-2:30 PM, Aug 7th 2026
Whittenberger Auditorium,
IU Memorial
Union
Era of Agentic AI
William Chappell - Microsoft
2:30-3:15 PM, Aug 7th 2026
Whittenberger Auditorium,
IU Memorial
Union
Section 3: Quantum for AI
(State Room East; Chair Jiaqi (Adam)
Huang)
- Incorporating Content-based Features into Quantum Knowledge Graph Embeddings (Jonas Hendl and Michael Faerber; Technical University Dresden, Germany)
- Hypertokens: Holographic Associative Memory in Tokenized LLMs (James Augeri; Sloop)
- SA-DQAS: Integrating Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search with Transformers for Enhanced Variational Quantum Algorithms (Yize Sun1,2, Jiarui Liu1, Zixin Wu1, Yunpu Ma1, Volker Trep1; 1Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany; 2Siemens AG, Germany)
Section 4: Quantum NLP
(Georgian Room)
- Extending the Frontiers of QNLP Beyond English: Grammar-Sensitive Pipeline for Hindi Sentiment Classification Using Compositional Quantum Models (Gautami Naik1, Rishi Koushik Reddy Thippireddy1, Naman Srivastava2, Parishri Shah1, Ravi Raj1, Sunil Saumya1, Aswath Babu Hanumantharayappa1; 1IIIT Dharwad, 2IISc Bangalore, India)
- Compact Quantum Circuits for Martinican Creole LID: A Typologically Informed Proof-of-Concept (Ludovic Mompelat; University of Miami, USA)
- Toward an Algebraic Implementation of a Language Faculty (Juan Uriagereka; University of Maryland, USA)
3:30-4:45 PM, Aug 7th 2026
IU Memorial Union
From Quantum Picturalism to Scalable Interpretable Quantum AI
Bob Coecke - Quantinuum
(Introduced by David Baxter)
5:00-5:45 PM, Aug 7th 2026
Whittenberger Auditorium,
IU Memorial
Union
Quantum Cognition Machine Learning (QCML) - theory and applications
Kharen Musaelian - Qognitive, Inc.
8:30-9:15 AM, Aug 8th 2026
Section 5: Quantum and Cognition
- Quantum versus Markov models of bistable perception (Jerome Busemeyer1, Makiko Yamada2, Rong Zheng1; 1Indiana University, USA; 2Riken Center for Brain Research, Japan)
- System Level Intervention for AI-Supported Decision-Making: A Quantum Cognition Perspective(Scott Humr & Mustafa Canan; Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
- Computational Modeling of Contextuality: Implications to Quantum Cognition (Sahil Imtiyaz & Serafim Rodrigues; Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain)
- Quantum AI for Ethical Decision-Making in Medical Education Computation (Kliment Chakarovski & Emilija Velinova; FPMI, TU Sofia, Bulgaria)
- Quantum Curiosity: Quantum Curious Feature Selection (James Bryan Graves & Goren Gordon; Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
- Quantum Recognition Heuristics: A New Direction of Quantum Cognitive Modeling (Jiaqi Huang & Jerome Busemeyer; Indiana University at Bloomington, USA)
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Aug 8th 2026
Poster Session
12:30-1:30 PM; Aug 8th 2026
Quantum Music Event
Bob Coecke - Quantinuum
1:45-2:30 PM, Aug 8th 2026
How AI is Helping Quantum Computing
Ismael Faro - IBM
2:30-3:15 PM, Aug 8th 2026
Section 6: Quantum for AI
(Chair: Jerome Busemeyer)
- Quantum-Inspired Attention for Efficient Face Recognition (Aayush Gauba; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)
- An Efficient Quantum Classifier Based on Hamiltonian Representations (Federico Tiblias1, Anna Schroeder2, Yue Zhang3, Mariami Gachechiladze2, Iryna Gurevych1; TU Darmstadt, Germany: 1UKP Lab, 2Quantum Computing Group; 3School of Engineering, Westlake University, China)
3:30-4:30 PM, Aug 8th 2026
Quantum Computing with Amazon Braket
Cedric Lin - Amazon AWS
4:45-5:30 PM, Aug 8th 2026