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Keynote Lecture

Shaping the Quantum Software: Challenges and Opportunities in Quantum Software Engineering for the Next Decade

Juan Manuel Murillo Rodríguez
Department of Information Technology and Telematic Systems Engineering, University of Extremadura
Spain

Brief Bio

Professor Murillo is currently a Full Professor in the field of Software Engineering at the University of Extremadura (Spain). He develops his research activity within the Quercus Software Engineering Group which he contributed to create in 1995. Currently, he leads the SPILab (Social and Pervasive Innovation Lab) which is focused on the development of services technology in the Computing Continuum. Professor Murillo coordinates the Spanish network of Services Science and Engineering. In all his research, the application areas were that of health and aging. From 2018, the practical problems faced in the field of health have led him to explore the practical development of software for quantum systems and its integration with classical service-oriented ones. This is the way in which what it was a hobby for years become a new research direction in the lab. In this field, the SPILab collaborated in the development of the QHealth project, which dealt with the modeling of systems in the field of pharmacogenomics for the development of precision medicine. Currently, the lab leads the QSERV Project, an effort developed jointly with the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Deusto to produce the service technology that supports building hybrid classical/quantum systems. This project has been granted by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Through this activity, SPILab is developing research in collaboration with different groups around the world whose general interest is to contribute to the development of Quantum Software Engineering (QSE).

Abstract
Advances in Quantum Computing developed in last decades has attracted increasing interest from researchers. Thanks to the advent of publicly accessible quantum computers concepts and algorithms that were previously only theoretical have now been tested in practice. The industry has been captivated by this, which has led to increased investment. Thus, the race for developing real industrial applications running in quantum computers have already started. Nevertheless, historical lessons from the field of software engineering underscore that, even with powerful computers available, the industry will only adopt them if quantum software can be produced in a repeatable, efficient, maintainable, reusable, and cost-effective way. This has highlighted the need for Quantum Software Engineering. This keynote will motivate the need for this new discipline and review its current status. It will also outline some of the main challenges to be faced over the next decade. Meeting these challenges successfully will enable the technology to deliver the performance expected from the large quantum computers that are already on the horizon.