Abstract
Rapid advances of quantum computers and quantum information sciences have paved the path toward realistic quantum computing supplying computing power well beyond classical high-performance computing. In this talk, the basic concepts of quantum computing will be first briefed with a few points that might be overlooked. Furthermore, applications of quantum optimization and quantum machine learning will be introduced in radio resource allocation and drug discovery considering molecular structure, while qubit-efficient computational facilitation will be treated as the major focus, given the fact that noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) quantum computers would supply for quantum computing in next few years.
Bio
Kwang-Cheng (K.-C.) Chen has been a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, since 2016. Dr. Chen is chairing an information technology panel for National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2024-2025, has been serving as a member of the US National Committee on quantum technologies since 2024. From 1987 to 2016, Dr. Chen worked with SSE, Communications Satellite (COMSAT) Corp., IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, National Tsing Hua University, HP Labs., and National Taiwan University in mobile communications and networks. He visited TU Delft (Netherlands, 1998), Aalborg University (Denmark, 2008), Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea, 2013), and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2012-2013, 2015-2016). During 2025-2026, he spent sabbatical leave at the MediaTek Inc. He founded a wireless IC design company, which was acquired 4 years later. The innovations of his startup empowered the first broadband communication of iPAQ, the first smart phone, and wide-range applications of WiFi and Bluetooth. He has been actively involving in the organization of various IEEE conferences and serving editorships with a few IEEE journals, together with various IEEE volunteer services to the IEEE, Communications Society, Vehicular Technology Society, and Signal Processing Society, such as founding the Technical Committee on Social Networks in the IEEE Communications Society and current GITC Chair in IEEE ComSoc. Dr. Chen also has contributed essential technology to various international standards, namely IEEE 802 wireless LANs, Bluetooth, LTE and LTE-A, 5G-NR, and ITU-T FG ML5G (machine learning for future wireless networks). He has authored and co-authored over 350 IEEE publications, 4 books published by Wiley and River (most recently, Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Robotics, 2020), and 30 granted US patents (25 being licensed to industry). Dr. Chen is an IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, AIIA Fellow, and has received several awards including 2011 IEEE COMSOC WTC Recognition Award, 2014 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, 2014 IEEE COMSOC AP Outstanding Paper Award, and paper awards in international conferences, particularly 3 papers awards on quantum technologies during 2022-2025. Dr. Chen’s current research interests include quantum communications and computing, wireless networks, multi-agent systems and AI, and cryptographic systems. Dr. Chen’s patents have been used by billions of users in daily life.