Symposium Celebrating the Quantum Century (SCQC) 2025

From Puzzling Principles to Transformative Technologies.

7th and 8th October 2025

Introduction

The year 2025 marks a historic milestone – 100 years since the birth of Quantum Mechanics, a scientific revolution that redefined our understanding of nature at its most fundamental level. In celebration of this centenary and aligned with the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025) declared by UNESCO, we proudly present a Workshop celebrating the Quantum Century: from Puzzling Principles to Transformative Technologies 2025 (SCQC 2025).

Organized under the aegis of the COMSNETS Association, SCQC 2025 is a special edition workshop dedicated to reflecting on a century of quantum discoveries while charting the course for the next era of transformative quantum technologies. This workshop encompasses all four major drivers of quantum technology, i.e. computing, sensing, communications, and materials.

From the early philosophical debates on wave-particle duality and uncertainty, to today’s advancements in quantum computing, communication, sensing, and materials, this workshop serves as a unique platform to bridge the journey from foundational principles to real-world impact.

SCQC 2025 will bring together a distinguished community of researchers, industry leaders, policymakers, entrepreneurs, startups, students, and educators.

Defining Features

  • Thematic Focus: Celebrating a century of quantum science with forward-looking
    perspectives.
  • Keynote Addresses: Talks by eminent physicists, technologists, and thought leaders.
  • Technical Sessions: Peer-reviewed contributions spanning quantum technologies and
    foundational research.
  • Industry & Policy Panels: Discussions on commercialization pathways, standardization, and global quantum strategy.
  • Showcase of India’s Quantum Ecosystem: Highlighting NQM hubs, startups, and
    academic excellence.

Motivations

Our symposium SCQC 2025 aims to serve as:

  • A bridge between past and future, honoring quantum pioneers while empowering today’s innovators.
  • A convergence point for interdisciplinary dialogue across physics, engineering, computer science, materials science, and industry.
  • A platform that not only celebrates achievements but also addresses critical questions:
    How do we accelerate the transition of quantum research into scalable, impactful
    technologies?

SCQC 2025 aspires to be remembered not just as a commemorative event, but as a catalyst for the next quantum revolution.

  • Paper Submission Deadline:
    1st August 2025 10th August 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance:
    1st September 2025 7th September 2025
  • Camera-Ready Submission:
    11th September 2025 15th September 2025
  • Symposium Dates:
    7th and 8th October 2025

General Co-Chairs:

Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs: 

Steering/Advisory Committee Co-Chairs

Confirmed Speakers

Nadia Belabas

Université Paris-Saclay, France

Title

Divide and conquer: variations on beamsplitting in quantum optics

Bio

Dr. Nadia Belabas has been a CNRS researcher since 2004. She is an expert notably in semiconductor nanophotonics, quantum optics and photonic circuitry. She initially worked on broadband pulse-shaping, Fourier transform and multidimensional nonlinear spectroscopy. She then opened prospects in integrated classical and quantum photonics with innovative guided light manipulation and new parametric sources. Since 2016 she proposed and implemented quantum tasks with nonlinear waveguide arrays, semiconductors parametric and on-demand sources and beyond, both in the continuous and discrete variable framework. Her current interests include time-frequency encoding of quantum information and quantum fibered implementations in the telecom wavelength regime.

Tobias Haug

Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates

Title

Quantum Fisher information metric for quantum machine learning

Bio

Dr. Tobias Haug is senior researcher at TII in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received his PhD from the Centre for Quantum Technology in Singapore in 2021. During his PhD he worked at NTT in Japan and Entropica Labs in Singapore. After his PhD he was a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London. His research focuses on quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, quantum cryptography, quantum error correction and resource theories of magic.

Antoine (Jack) Jacquier

Imperial College London, England  

Bio

Prof. Antoine (Jack) Jacquier is a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London. He holds a Masters Degree from ESSEC Business School and a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College London. His research broadly focuses on the developments and applications of mathematical theories to quantitative finance, ranging from stochastic analysis to numerical analysis and quantum computing. Prof. Jacquier also serves as a scientific consultant and advisor for various finance and technology companies.

Fedor Jelezko

Institute of Quantum Optics at Ulm University, Germany

Bio

Prof. Dr. Fedor Jelezko is currently a director of the Institute of Quantum Optics at Ulm University, director of the Centre for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology and member of Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.
He studied in Minsk (Belarus) and received his Ph.D. in 1998. After finishing the habilitation in 2010 at Stuttgart University he was appointed as a professor of experimental physics in Ulm in 2011. His research interests are at the intersection of fundamental quantum science and quantum technologies. His research team is exploring applications of spin qubits in diamond for information processing, communication, sensing, and imaging.
Outside academia, he is involved in the development of quantum technologies based on spin qubits. Fedor Jelezko and his team could show that it is possible to create a hyperpolarization of nuclear spins in diamond or external molecules under ambient conditions. Such diamonds become visible in standard MRI machines and thus offer new perspectives for enhanced medical imaging. Having applied for a patent on this idea, Prof. Jelezko and his colleagues are now pursuing its exploitation by means of their start-up company NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH.

Anand Kumar Jha

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

Bio

Prof. Anand Kumar Jha obtained his 5 years’ integrated MSc in Physics from IIT Kharagpur in 2002 and his PhD from the University of Rochester in 2009. After doing a postdoc for about a year at the University of Rochester, Dr. Jha worked with Intel corporation for about two years and then joined IIT Kanpur as an assistant professor of Physics in 2013. Since 2022, he has been a professor of Physics at IIT Kanpur. Dr. Jha has setup a “quantum optics and entanglement” laboratory at IIT Kanpur and carries out research in the broad areas of classical & quantum coherence, quantum entanglement, and quantum imaging.

Bhaskar Kanseri

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Bio

Prof. Bhaskar Kanseri is working as IHFC chair professor at Department of Physics and a joint faculty at Optics and Photonics Center (OPC), IIT Delhi. Prior joining IITD, he was postdoctoral fellow at Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau France, and earlier at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen Germany. He received his PhD from University of Delhi and National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi. He has more than 75 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and about 160 conference presentations and invited lectures in his credit. He has been awarded “Teaching excellence award-2022” and “Veena Arora Early Career Research Award-2022” by IIT Delhi for his teaching and research contributions. In 2023, he has been selected as member of The National Academy of Sciences India (NASI), and Associate fellow at the Indian National Science Academy (INSA). His notable contributions in Quantum security domain are realization of the longest quantum secure communication in the country in both fibre channel and in free-space channel. Currently, he is pioneering entanglement-based quantum network activities at IIT Delhi.

Marcin Pawłowski

University of Gdańsk, Poland

Bio

Prof. Marcin Pawłowski obtained his PhD in physics at University of Gdańsk in 2010. Later he worked as a post-doc at University of Bristol from which he returned to Gdańsk in 2013 to start his own research group. Currently he is the head of Quantum Cybersecurity and Communication group at International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies. The topics oh his research range from quantum foundational, through quantum cryptography, to machine learning. His work also focuses on the simplification of quantum algorithms to make them more efficient and realizable with simpler experimental setups. He is also a founder of two startup companies: QCG – which delivers comprehensive cryptographic solutions, and SeQure Quantum – which builds device independent random number generators.

R. Vijayaraghavan

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Title

Superconducting quantum electrical circuits: a platform for technology and fundamental science.

Bio

Dr. Vijayaraghavan is currently an Associate Professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and heads the Quantum Measurement and Control Laboratory where the research focuses on superconducting quantum circuits. He is currently leading several projects to build small to medium scale quantum processors with funding from DAE, DRDO, TCS and DST. He is also the Lead PI for the Technical Group working on building superconducting quantum computers under the National Quantum Mission. He is a recipient of the Ramanujan Fellowship (2013-18) awarded by the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India, and a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore since January 2024. He was awarded the Pancharatnam prize for excellence in quantum science and technology by the Government of Karnataka in July 2025.

Sai Vinjanampathy

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 

Bio

Prof. Sai Vinjanampathy completed his Ph.D. in 2010 from Louisiana State University, USA. Thereafter, he was a postdoctoral fellow in University of Massachusetts, Boston from 2010 to 2012 and then at the Centre for Quantum Technologies Singapore from 2012 to 2016. Since July 2016, he has been a faculty member in the Physics department at IIT Bombay. His group works on the physics of quantum technologies, exploring diverse topics from nonlinear dynamics of quantum systems, exotic phase transitions and novel sensor designs. 

Technical Program Committee (TPC)

  • Kuntal Adak – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

  • Alessio Avella – Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Italy

  • Anindita Banerjee – Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India

  • Debajyoti Bera – Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India

  • Sanchari Chakraborti – Indian Institute of Science, India

  • Subhasri Chatterjee – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

  • Anubhav Chaturvedi – Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland

  • Zainab Chowdhry – Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India

  • Soumya Das – Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

  • Jyoti Faujdar – University of Ottawa, Canada

  • Kaumudibikash Goswami – University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Ananthakrishna Gopal – Tata Consultancy Services Research

  • Pavithran Iyer – Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Canada

  • Aditya Jain – PsiQuantum, London, England

  • Kaushik Joarder – Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany

  • Ankit Khandelwal – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

  • Akash Kundu – Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Dhiren Kara – Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

  • Ritajit Majumdar – IBM Quantum, India

  • Nirmal M R – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

  • Sunil Kumar Mishra – Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, India

  • Subhadeep Mondal – Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

  • Surya Narayan Sahoo – National Institute of Science Education and Research Bhubaneswar, India

  • Abhishek Sadhu – Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India

  • Rajiv Sangle – Fujitsu Research

  • Sonia Sarkar – Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Mohammad Shahbaz Shaik – International Institute of Information Technology – Hyderabad, India

  • Rohan Thingbaijam – Tata Consultancy Services Research

  • Dhrumil Patel – Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  • Rahul Rana – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

  • M A Rajan – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

  • Ankur Raina – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India

  • Sayantan Pramanik – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

  • Suman Roy – Tata Consultancy Services Research, India

Symposium Co-Chairs

Kishor Bharti

A*Star Q. Inc., Singapore

Raktim Halder

IIT Bhubaneswar, India

Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay

University of Electronic Sciences and Technology of China, China

Aritra Sarkar

Fujitsu Research, India

Rahul Sawant

IIT Madras, India

Luca Troise

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Local Organizing Committee Co-Chairs

Prasant Misra

TCS Research, India

Steering/Advisory Committee Co-Chairs

 M Girish Chandra

TCS Research, India

 Sourav Chatterjee

TCS Research, India 

Nitin Jain

Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 

Rajiv Krishnakumar

QuantumBasel, Switzerland

Kaushik Seshadreesan

University of Pittsburgh, USA

Workshop Organization
To create a broader and better impact through this special event celebrating the “International Year of  Quantum science and technology (IYQ) 2025” and the “100 years of quantum mechanics”, we wish to invite a larger team of experts including pioneers, senior scientists, younger researchers, technology entrepreneurs, etc. so as to symbiotically grow and contribute in the on-going quantum revolution 2.0.
Sponsors & Partners

Opportunities available for sponsorship and collaboration. Contact us for details. 

Workshop Venue

Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bengaluru, India.

Contact Information

For inquiries regarding submissions, participation, or sponsorship:
Email:  [email protected]

Symposium celebrating the quantum century (SCQC 2025)

Accepted for presentation/publication in the IEEE-proceedings track

1. Evolving Quantum Feature Maps with Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms for Robust Indoor Localization

Authors: Tripathi, Devendra*; Kundu, Neel Kanth; Dixit, Abhishek

2. Experimental Validation of Dequantization of Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning Models using Classical Surrogates

Authors: Mittal, Sparsh; Kumar, Mintu; Chand, Yash; Krishnakumar, Rajiv; Kundu, Neel Kanth *

3. Optical modeling and simulation of the fluorescence emission and detection in diamond magnetometry

Authors: Raina, Ritvik*; Anand, Prabhat ; Chatterjee, Sourav

4. A Transformer-GNN Framework for Learning Full Output Distributions of Quantum Circuits

Authors: Baba, Tourad; Dr. Lu, Tianxiang*

5. CoQS-LSTM: A Coherent Quantum LSTM

Authors: Singh, Davinder; Nath, Ushnik; Gupta, Anubha; Bera, Debajyoti*

6. Quantum Inspired Machine Learning Models for Enhanced Weather Prediction

Authors: Tiwari, Abhishek*; Kumar, Dr. Sachin; Siyanwal, Shivanshu; Sakhuja, Saiyam

7. Adaptive Quantum-Enhanced Learning: A Dynamic Hybrid Framework for Robust Quantum Machine Learning in the NISQ Era

Authors: Goyal, Kushagra*; Pathak, Avinash

8. Benchmarking the Quantum Frontier: Evaluating QML Models on Core Learning Tasks

Authors: P, Samarth*; Shashidhar, Sadhana; Rajani, Sakshi; Masand, Sakshi

9. Quantum Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in IoT Devices

Authors: Chowdhury, Sajid*; Karim, Shaikh Faiyaz; Bhuiyan, Md. Shahriar Islam; Shuvro, Ali Abir; Hossen, Dr. Md. Sakhawat

10. Amplifying Block Encoded Quantum Operations with Grover Iterations

Authors: Venkannagari, Nishitha Reddy*; Puram, Varun Teja; Thomas, Johnson P

Accepted for presentation/publication in the non-proceedings track

1. Krylov Quantum Selected Configuration Interaction Algorithm applied to Atomic Many Body Computations

Authors: Sahoo, Pradyot*; Das, Bhanu Pratap; Prasanna V, Srinivasa

2. VQCD: Variational Quantum-Conditioned Denoising for Hybrid Image Reconstruction

Authors: Patel, Poojak*

3. Quantum-Integrated Systems for Space Warfare: ISR, C2, and Adaptive Engagement

Authors: Pandya, Komal*

4. Elevating LLMs via synergy of Quantum Computing and classical transformer models

Authors: Sharma, Shashanka Shekhar ; Sarma, Hrishikesh; Katiyar, Ritisha *; M., Gayathri

5. Harnessing Quantum Layers for Improved Visual Classification

Authors: Katiyar, Ritisha *; Sharma, Shashanka Shekhar; Tiwari, Vihan; M., Gayathri

6. Complete Positivity of Subsystems in Quantum Dynamics

Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Anumita *; Ghosh, Praggnyamita; Roy, Shibdas

7. A Tutorial on Binary Quantum State Discrimination with Computational Complexity Analysis

Authors: Khurana, Aanya; Srivastava, Vandit; Kundu, Neel Kanth *

8. Toward Quantum Enabled Solutions for Real-Time Currency Arbitrage in Financial Markets

Authors: Roy, Suman*; Rana, Rahul; Chandra, M Girish; Kumar, Nishant; Nambiar, Manoj

9. Positive-divisibility of Subsystems in Quantum Dynamics

Authors: Mukhopadhyay, Anumita *; Ghosh, Praggnyamita; Roy, Shibdas

10. Study of Chern insulators with weakly interacting spin-orbit-coupled Bose gases in optical lattices

Authors: Sarkar, Saubhik*

11. QuantumDistilBERT: A Parameter-Efficient Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis on Edge Devices

Authors: Bhatia, Vinayak ; Vora, Jash*

12. Cost Function Optimization in Quantum Algorithms: A Comprehensive Reviewition at Edge

Authors: paulraj, sangeetha*

14. Quantum-Enhanced 3D Bin Packing for Last-Mile Delivery

Authors: VAMSI, NISTALA*; Patel, Rohit; Avadhanam, Udayaadithya; Prabhakar, Anil

15. Sustainable NARMA10 Benchmarking for Quantum Reservoir Computing

Authors: Bhatia, Krishna*; Kodali, Avyay; Singh, Priyanshi; Pandey, Pranay; Devendrababu, Shalini; Ganguly, Srinjoy

16. The Harrow-Hassidim-Lloyd algorithm with qutrits

Authors: Patel, Tushti*; Jayashankar, A.; Prasannaa, V.S.

17. Are Quantum linear solvers efficient for networks-based system of linear equations?

Authors: Shetty, Disha*; Chawla, Palak; Dutta, Supriyo; Jayashankar, Akshaya; Riu, Jordi; Nogue, Jan; Sugisaki, Kenji ; Prasannaa, Srinivasa

18. Atomic and molecular physics/ quantum chemistry on quantum computers

Authors: Prasannaa V , Srinivasa*; Das, Bhanu

19. Shallow Circuits for Quantum Simulation of Molecular Vibrations

Authors: M R, Nirmal*; Khandelwal, Ankit; Nambiar, Manoj

20. Multi-Target Space Debris Optimization and Mission Planning Using Gaussian Boson Sampling

Authors: Pandya, Komal*; Sakhuja, Saiyam

21. Quantum Autoencoders for Efficient Molecular Simulations

Authors: Khandelwal, Ankit*; M R, Nirmal; Chandra, M Girish

22. Diamond sensors for nano-magnetometry of hematite particles

Authors: Dubey, Pralekh*; Ingole, Gauri; Kumar, Shashank; Peddibhotla, Phani Kumar

23. QCxAI: Parameter-Shift Saliency for Variational Quantum Classifiers

Authors: Mehta, Sohum*; Bhojanam, Saaketh

24. Differentially Private Variational Quantum Classifiers via Noisy Parameter-Shift: Utility-Privacy Trade-offs and Membership Inference Analysis

Authors: Bhojanam, Saaketh*; Mehta, Sohum

Schedule

DATE: Tuesday, 7th October 2025
Venue: Indian Affairs – The Chancery Pavilion (Hotel), Bengaluru, India

SessionTitle
9:00 – 9:30Registration
9:30 – 10:00Welcome Address by various Dignitaries
10:00 – 10:45Keynote talk title will be made available shortly
Antoine Jacquier
10:45 – 11:30Towards Practical Quantum Secure Hybrid Networks
Bhaskar Kanseri
Tea / Coffee Break (11:30 – 12:00)
12:00 – 12:15Evolving Quantum Feature Maps with Hierarchical Genetic Algorithms for Robust Indoor Localization
Devendra Tripathi
12:15 – 12:30Optical modeling and simulation of the fluorescence emission and detection in diamond magnetometry
Ritvik Raina
12:30 – 12:45Experimental Validation of Dequantization of Hybrid Quantum Machine Learning Models using Classical Surrogates
Sparsh Mittal
12:45 – 13:00Buffer Time
Lunch Break (13:00 – 14:00)
14:00 – 14:45Keynote talk title will be made available shortly
Tobias Haug
14:45 – 15:30Keynote talk title will be made available shortly
R. Vijayaraghavan
15:30 – 16:00Poster Session
Tea / Coffee Break (16:00 – 16:15)
16:15 – 17:00Public Lecture 1
17:00 – 17:45Public Lecture 2


DATE: Wednesday, 8th October 2025
Venue: Indian Affairs – The Chancery Pavilion (Hotel), Bengaluru, India

SessionTitle
9:30–10:15Keynote talk title will be made available shortly
Keynote Speaker
10:15–11:00Spin qubits in diamond
Fedor Jelezko
Tea / Coffee Break (11:00–11:30)
11:30–11:45Krylov Quantum Selected Configuration Interaction Algorithm applied to Atomic Many Body Computations
Pradyot Sahoo
12:00–12:45Partial coherence: Applications in quantum state measurement and quantum imaging
Anand K. Jha
12:45–13:00Buffer Time
Lunch Break (13:00–14:00)
14:00–14:45Keynote talk title will be made available shortly
Sai Vinjanampathy
14:45–15:00VQCD: Variational Quantum-Conditioned Denoising for Hybrid Image Reconstruction
Pooja K. Patel
15:00–15:45Keynote talk title will be made available shortly
Marcin Pawłowski
15:40–16:15Poster Session
Tea / Coffee Break (16:15–16:30)
16:30–18:00Industry Panel Session
18:00–18:30Best Paper Award & Closing Remarks

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