These courses aimed at providing a deeper and multi-sided understanding of a topic including hands-on experience, providing the material of the course as well as a professional development certificate. Registration to the main conference is not required to attend short courses.
The following course will be offered at ICASSP 2026:
SC2: Quantum Information Processing, Sensing and Communications: Their Myths, Realities and Futures, by Lajos Hanzo
Monday, May 4, 9:00-12:30, 14:30-18:00.
6 hours of theoretical lectures
This short course provides a comprehensive introduction to quantum information processing, sensing, and communications, emphasizing both fundamental principles and emerging applications relevant to signal processing and wireless communications. Motivated by the limits of classical scaling and the transition to quantum-domain technologies, the course reviews core concepts of quantum mechanics, including superposition, entanglement, measurement, and decoherence. It introduces quantum communication models, quantum error correction, and error mitigation techniques, highlighting their connections to classical coding theory. The course further explores quantum algorithms for wireless communications, demonstrating how quantum search and optimization can address detection, estimation, localization, and routing problems. Advances in quantum key distribution, satellite-based quantum communications, and the development of quantum networks are surveyed, along with open research challenges and future direction.