Quantum Software Engineering at SIT
Head of the Chair of Quantum Software Engineering at the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology
Education
Ph.D. at University of Geneva on Dynamic Software Updates, Engineer Diploma in computer science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence from ENSEEIHT School in Toulouse.
Research Interests
Software engineering, object-oriented languages, software testing, component infrastructure, software architecture, middleware, real-time ystems, and dynamic software updating social interactions through software.
Prof. Oriol spent 10 years in research working on components infrastructures, software engineering and software testing. After his PhD at University of Geneva, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at University of Maryland College Park and ETH Zurich. He then moved into a tenured position as a senior lecturer at the University of York int he UK. Following this academic experience, he then worked for 10 years for ABB and industry giant. He was first appointed as a principal scientist (I&II) and then an R&D Manager responsible for Analytics for IoT Systems and special projects (such as the ABB Ability(TM) Smart Sensor for pumps and the SmartSensor generation 2 – https://new.abb.com/service/motion/data-and-advisory-services/condition-monitoring-for-rotating-equipment). He moved back to academy and joined SIT in September 2022 as an Associate professor of Software Engineering, bridging academic research and practical product development experience.
Should you need him, Prof. Oriol is happy to perform software engineering audits in his area of expertise
The chair of Quantum Software Engineering research agenda
IoT and embedded systems are heavily advertised at the fourth industrial revolution, promising large gains in productivity and power consumption. The already fast pace of embedding artificial intelligence, data analytics, and other new technologies in those systems is accelerating, requiring a serious effort on software engineering research for such systems. Despite this, the level of acceptance and support of software engineering techniques in this field remains very low in practice. The same conclusions are true for areas where AI, and soon quantum will be embedded. If nothing changes, we are a few years from an IoT systems and AI systems, while the slow creation of software engineering for quantum systems will hinder its development.
Our chair focuses on starting the activities of a new research unit on Quantum Software Engineering located both at JUB and SIT. The new Unit of Quantum Software Engineering focuses on building a complete body of research on software engineering of embedded systems, AI-based systems, and quantum-based systems. The Research Unit key focus areas are:
- Software engineering of embedded systems
- Software engineering of real-time systems
- Software engineering of specific technologies such as AI-based software, cybersecurity for IoT systems, analytics-aware systems, and quantum computing.
- Various combinations of such topics, including:
- Software engineering of artificial intelligence-based applications embedded in real-time systems
- Software engineering and cybersecurity of quantum computing (potentially for real-time systems)
Li Huang, Bertrand Meyer, Manuel Oriol.
CoRRabs/2208.10492 (2022).
Aurelien Monot, Manuel Oriol, Camille Schneider, Michael Wahler.
In 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), 2016.
M. Piccioni, M. Oriol, B. Meyer.
In IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering (TSE) 39(2): 184-196 (2013), 2013.
M. Oriol
In International Conference on Software Testing (ICST 2012), 2012.
I. Neamtiu, M. Hicks, G. Stoyle, M. Oriol
In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI 2006), 2006.
General Information
We are open to host Research Theses, Industry Theses and Startup Theses. Contact us if you want to propose topics for the next spring semester.
2022 Theses
Research Thesis.
Sara Omar Soliman Al Safoury.
Research Thesis.
Ilir Nuredini.
Research Thesis.
Fatmir Nuredini.
Research thesis.
Ekaterina Petrovskaya.
Industry Thesis.
Ivan Glushenkov.
Industry Thesis.
Zekarias Taye Hirpo.
Industry Thesis.
Agbeyeye K. Ledi.
Industry Thesis.
Amr Mohamed Shawky Mohamed.
Industry Thesis.
Temiloluwa Philip Ojo.
Industry Thesis.
Ahmed Zaid.
Startup Thesis.
Yuriy Dyuster.
Startup Thesis.
Anastasiia Fokina.
Startup Thesis.
Iuliia Kotovich.
Startup Thesis.
Michael Martinson.
Startup Thesis.
Yuva Phalle.
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