Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

IEEE Quantum Week  2026  in Toronto From September 13-18, I attended the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), also known as IEEE Quantum Week, in Toronto, Canada. The main reason for the trip was to present our paper, " Distributed Quantum-Enhanced Optimization: A Topographical Preconditioning Approach for High-Dimensional Search ". QCE was especially interesting for me because essentially everyone there was working somewhere in the quantum computing ecosystem. There were people with backgrounds in physics, computer science, electrical engineering, AI/ML, and pretty much everything in between.  Throughout the week, I attended keynotes and technical sessions, spent too much time walking around the exhibit hall, and had the chance to meet people working across quantum hardware, software, algorithms, HPC, and AI.  My parents and brother also tagged along for the trip, so outside the conference we had some time to explore Toronto tog...

The 2017 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) took place at the University of Toronto , Canada. From June 19-23, we (WS-DL) attended workshops, tutorials, panels, and a doctoral consortium. The theme of this year's conference was #TOscale, #TOanalyze, and #TOdiscover. The conference provided researchers from disciplines such as Digital Library research and information science, with the opportunity to communicate the findings of their respective research areas. Day 1 (June 19) The first day (pre-conference) of the conference kicked off with a Doctoral Consortium and a Tutorial - Introduction to Digital Libraries. These events took place in parallel with a Workshop - 6th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications (WOSP 2017). The final event of the day was a tutorial titled, "Scholarly Data Mining: Making Sense of the Scientific Literature" Day 2 (June 20) . #JCDL2017 kicks off with opening remarks by @ianmilligan1 pic.twitter.com/...