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Tuesday 16th December 2025 17:00 CET
Prof. Francisco Chicano
Quantum computing and artificial intelligence are two disciplines with great scientific prominence today. The promises of the former and the major advances of the latter are each causing a scientific and technological revolution. But what can these two disciplines do together? In this talk, we will explore how artificial intelligence problems can be solved using quantum computers and how classical artificial intelligence can support quantum computing. We will review recent advances at the intersection of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and discuss some current challenges and limitations.
Francisco Chicano is Full Professor at the University of Malaga (Spain). He has more than 150 publications and has been awarded with 6 best paper awards in international conferences. Dr. Chicano is (or has been) involved in 10 national projects, 3 European projects, 2 regional project (Junta de Andalucía), 5 local projects (Universidad de Málaga), and 17 transference contracts with companies and institutions. He has supervised 4 PhD thesis and is currently supervising 4 PhD thesis.
He is in the editorial board of four journals related to Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering and had important editorial roles in international conferences like GECCO, EvoCOP, and FOGA. He is currently Secretary of ACM Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO), which organizes GECCO (main conference in EC in the world) and FOGA conferences, and Treasurer of the SPECIES Society, organizer of the Evostar conferences.
Dr. Chicano has made contributions to the fields of combinatorial optimization, AI applied to Software Engineering and, more recently, quantum computing. In Quantum Optimization, Dr. Chicano is co-founder and co-organizer of the Workshop on Quantum Optimization at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (since 2022), and co-organizer of the two editions of the “International Workshop on Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence” at AAAI (the main conference on Artificial Intelligence in the World). He also co-organized the Special Session on Quantum Artificial Intelligence at CEC/WCCI (three editions) and has given three tutorials on “Introduction to Quantum Optimization” at GECCO. He is the director of an online course on Quantum artificial intelligence at the General Foundation of the University of Malaga and participates as lecturer in a course on quantum computing at the University of Malaga.
