Leonardo Lavagna

Leonardo Lavagna

I'm a mathematician specialized in Data Science currently pursuing a PhD in Quantum Computing

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2025

Materials related to the 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

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As discussed in this previous post, the 2025 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) took place in Rome and our group @NESYA organized a workshop and a special session:

  • Quantum Computing and Quantum Neural Networks – QCNN: a very nice, open and frank workshop about the state of the art and possible directions of quantum computing, with international speakers from Fermilab, ESA, CERN and prestigious universities across the world. The detailed program of the workshop can befound here.
  • Hyperdimensional Computing and Vector Symbolic Architectures for Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence: a very interesting special session to broaden the view about promising alternatives to standard machine learniong architectures, with in-depth talks about some difficult aspects of vector symbolic computations and new ideas to push forward the research in this niche.

Materials related to the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

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I’ve presented our work at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems and had very interesting discussions about post-quantum cryptography. Thanks to the orgaizers for the amazing work. You can chek my slides here and here you can find a blog post that summarizes the motivation and context of our results. In this repository you find all the implementations related to the project. As soon as the proceedings of the conference will be published I will also share more details about our findings.

New Dataset available on Kaggle!

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I have just published a simple educational project that should help the novice to get started with the Google Earth Engine API. The main steps of this project are summarized in the associated Github repository. As a byproduct of the project I have created a new dataset on Kaggle, check it here! This dataset provides geographic and environmental data on different islands from around the world, focusing on their potential for renewable energy generation. It includes information on solar irradiance, wind speeds, and other characteristics useful for sustainability studies and geographic analysis. Since there are not so many public cleaned dataset of this kind I hope it will be usefull.

Attending the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2025

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I’m going to present at IJCNN 2025 a couple of recent results about the intersections of quantum computing and hyperdimensional computing, and a collaboration on the application of QAOA-type methods to anomaly detection problems in univariate time-series. This year I’m lucky that the conference will be held in Rome, thanks to all the organizers for the amazing work they are doing. If you happen to be around let me know!

Open DIET 2025

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Acoording to tradition, also this year we are hosting the Open DIET event where highschool students can join for one day the research teams in our Department in innovative projects and see with their own eyes cutting edge technologies and curren trends in modern electronics, artificial intelligence and quantum computing. This year I will propose a (hopefully fun) project where a student can simulate Classical and Quantum Walks with an Arduino-Based LED System. All the details are in this repository. If you happen to be in Rome in that period, let me know!

Attending the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

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I’m going to present a work on Quantum Cryptography at the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2025). The title of the talk is “Trade-Offs in Cryptosystems by Boolean and Quantum Circuits” where we have analized the security of cryptosystems based on trapdoor permutations against NISQ attacks. The materials will be available soon, and a preliminary schedule is available here.

Joined Qeios

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I’ve just joined the Open Sicence Platform Qeios. It is an open-access, open peer review, academic publishing platform. Publishing on Qeios is free and doesn’t rely on editors to accept or reject papers. Instead, reviewers openly evaluate papers after publication, offering feedback to improve the work and guide readers on its quality. This post-publication peer review system allows broad participation, highlighting strong research and limiting the spread of flawed studies, and I believe it to be a kind of alternative to the many flaws current academic publishing has displayed over and over. If you are interested you can check my first contribution on Qeios here.

2024

Attending the 8th International Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning

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I’m going to attend the 8th International Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning where we are presenting three results: