Quantum and Intelligent Computing (QIC)

In the QIC research group, we deal with topics related to quantum computing, artificial intelligence, data and information science with and without hardware accelerators.

Head

Members

Current Members

Completed PhDs supervised by Prof. Dr. Sven Groppe

  • Dr. rer. nat. Benjamin Warnke (Thesis)
  • Dr.-Ing. Stefan Werner (Thesis)
  • Dr.-Ing. Dennis Heinrich (Thesis)

Projects

Running Projects

Completed Projects

Open Thesis

A list of open thesis of the QIC research group is available here.

Please see also the slides of the last bachelor/master forum (PDF).

Publications

2025

Sarika Jain, Priyanka Sukul, Jinghua Groppe, Benjamin Warnke, Pooja Harde, Ritik Jangid, Waqas Rehan, Yuri Cotrado, Stefan Fischer, and Sven Groppe,
A scientometric analysis of reviews on the Internet of Things, The Journal of Supercomputing , vol. 81, no. 6, Apr. 2025. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
File: s11227-025-07230-w
Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Soror Sahri, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Marc Pignal, Eva Perez Pimparé, and Régine Vignes-Lebbe,
Impact of Chatbots on User Experience and Data Quality on Citizen Science Platforms, Computers , vol. 14, no. 1, Jan. 2025.
File: computers14010021
Sarika Jain, Bharat K. Bhargava, Deepshikha Kalra, and Sven Groppe,
Proceedings of the International Health Informatics Conference: IHIC 2023., .... Springer Nature Singapore, 2025.
DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-7190-5
ISBN:9789819771905
File: 978-981-97-7190-5
Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Sven Groppe, Dominik Röpert, and Jinghua Groppe,
Ai-supported analysis and classification of digitized botanical collections, in 11th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Tuscany, Italy , 2025.
Valter Uotila, Soror Sahri, and Sven Groppe,
Utilizing Quantum Computing to Improve the Quality of Data, in The 29th European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), Tampere, Finland , 2025.
File: 978-3-032-05281-0_19
Nitin Nayak, Alexandru Prisacaru, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Jinghua Groppe, and Sven Groppe,
Quantum-Enhanced Transaction Scheduling with Reduced Complexity via Solving QUBO Iteratively using a Locking Mechanism, in 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Computing and Quantum-Inspired Technology for Data-Intensive Systems and Applications (Q-Data), Berlin, Germany , 2025.
File: 3736393.3736701
Tobias Winker, Jinghua Groppe, and Sven Groppe,
QCardEst/QCardCorr: Quantum Cardinality Estimation and Correction, arXiv , vol. 2509.08817, 2025.
File: ARXIV.2509.08817
Jinghua Groppe, Nitin Nayak, Tobias Winker, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, and Sven Groppe,
"QC4DB: Beschleunigung von relationalen Datenbankmanagementsystemen durch Quantenrechner Teilvorhaben: Datenbank Optimierungen (DBOpt)" Hannover : Technische Informationsbibliothek, 2025.
File: 24530
Hasnain Sikora, Shridevi Krishnakumar, and Sven Groppe,
Weather forecasting using quantum-based LSTM: A comparative analysis, Results in Engineering , vol. 28, 2025. Elsevier BV.
File: j.rineng.2025.107995
Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Nitin Nayak, Jinghua Groppe, and Sven Groppe,
OptiMA: A Transaction-Based Framework with Throughput Optimization for Very Complex Multi-Agent Systems, arXiv , vol. 2511.03761, 2025.
File: arxiv.2511.03761
Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Soror Sahri, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Marc Pignal, and Régine Vignes-Lebbe,
Impact of Chatbots on User Experience and Data Quality on Citizen Science Platforms, Computers , vol. 14, no. 1, 2025.
DOI:10.3390/computers14010021
File: 21
Anna Osipjan, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Akasha-Leonie Kessel, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
GraphTrace: A Modular Retrieval Framework Combining Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models for Multi-Hop Question Answering, Computers , vol. 14, no. 9, 2025. MDPI AG.
File: computers14090382
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Sanju Tiwari, Farah Benamara, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Jinghua Groppe, Soror Sahri, Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, and Sven Groppe,
EcoRAG: A Multi-hop Economic QA Benchmark for Retrieval Augmented Generation Using Knowledge Graphs, in Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB), Kanazawa, Japan , 2025. pp. 163–173.
File: 978-3-031-97144-0_15
Jinghua Groppe, Andreas Marquet, Annabel Walz, and Sven Groppe,
Automated Archival Descriptions with Federated Intelligence of LLMs, in The 36th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Bangkok, Thailand , 2025.
File: 978-3-032-02049-9_4
Sven Groppe, Valter Uotila, and Jinghua Groppe,
Opportunities and Challenges for Data Quality in the Era of Quantum Computing, arXiv , vol. 2512.00870, 2025.
File: arxiv.2512.00870

2024

Simon Paasche, and Sven Groppe,
On the Potential of Sustainable Software Solutions in Smart Manufacturing Environments, in Semantic Intelligence , Springer Nature Singapore, Dec.2024, pp. 25–32.
DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-7356-5_3
File: 978-981-97-7356-5_3
Martin Vogrin, Rok Vogrin, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
Supervised Learning on Relational Databases with Quantum Graph Neural Networks, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
File: QDSM.5.pdf
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Fatima Zahra Amara, Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Sanju Tiwari, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Jinghua Groppe, Soror Sahri, Farah Benamara, and Sven Groppe,
Research Trends for the Interplay between Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The International Workshop on Data Management Opportunities in Unifying Large Language Models + Knowledge Graphs (LLM+KG), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
File: LLM+KG-9.pdf
Sven Groppe, Sarika Jain, and Bharat K. Bhargava,
Semantic Intelligence, Sarika Jain and Sven Groppe and Bharat K. Bhargava, Eds. Springer Nature Singapore, 2024, pp. 25–32.
DOI:10.1007/978-981-97-7356-5_3
ISBN:9789819773565
File: 978-981-97-7356-5_3
Bibtex: BibTeX
@book{SemanticIntelligence2023,
 title = {Semantic Intelligence},
 editor = {Sarika Jain and Sven Groppe and Bharat K. Bhargava},
 year = {2023},
 publisher = {Springer Nature Singapore},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7126-6}
}
Martin Vogrin, Rok Vogrin, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
Supervised Learning on Relational Databases with Quantum Graph Neural Networks, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
File: QDSM.5.pdf
Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Farah Benamara, Sven Groppe, and Soror Sahri,
Towards Generating High-Quality Knowledge Graphs by Leveraging Large Language Models, in The 29th Annual International Conference on Natural Language \& Information Systems (NLDB 2024), Turin, Italy , 2024.
File: 978-3-031-70239-6_31
Sven Groppe, and Sarika Jain,
The Way Forward with AI-Complete Problems, New Generation Computing , 2024.
File: s00354-024-00251-8
Jinghua Groppe, Sven Groppe, Daniel Senf, and Ralf Möller,
There Are Infinite Ways to Formulate Code: How to Mitigate the Resulting Problems for Better Software Vulnerability Detection, Information , vol. 15, no. 4, 2024.
File: info15040216
Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Farah Benamara, Sven Groppe, and Soror Sahri,
Towards Generating High-Quality Knowledge Graphs by Leveraging Large Language Models, in The 29th Annual International Conference on Natural Language \& Information Systems (NLDB 2024), Turin, Italy , 2024.
File: 978-3-031-70239-6_31
T. Kar, P. Kanungo, Sachi Nandan Mohanty, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
Video Shot-boundary detection: Issues, challenges and solutions, Artificial Intelligence Review , vol. 57, no. 4, 2024.
File: s10462-024-10742-1
Valter Uotila, Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Workshop Summary of the Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM), in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24) , 2024.
File: QDSM.1.pdf
Valter Uotila, Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Workshop Summary of the Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM), in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Quantum Data Science and Management (QDSM’24) , 2024.
File: QDSM.1.pdf
Benjamin Warnke, Kevin Martens, Tobias Winker, Sven Groppe, Jinghua Groppe, Prasad Adhiyaman, Sruthi Srinivasan, and Shridevi Krishnakumar,
ReJOOSp: Reinforcement Learning for Join Order Optimization in SPARQL, Big Data and Cognitive Computing (BDCC) , vol. 8, no. 7, 2024.
File: bdcc8070071
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Fatima Zahra Amara, Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Sanju Tiwari, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Jinghua Groppe, Soror Sahri, Farah Benamara, and Sven Groppe,
Research Trends for the Interplay between Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs, in VLDB 2024 Workshop: The International Workshop on Data Management Opportunities in Unifying Large Language Models + Knowledge Graphs (LLM+KG), Guangzhou, China , 2024.
File: LLM+KG-9.pdf
Nitin Nayak, Manuel Schönberger, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Sven Groppe, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
QCE'24 Tutorial: Quantum Annealing - Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, arXiv , vol. arXiv:2411.04638, 2024.
File: 2411.04638
Nitin Nayak, Tobias Winker, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Sven Groppe, and Jinghua Groppe,
Quantum Join Ordering by Splitting the Search Space of QUBO Problems, Datenbank-Spektrum , vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 21-32, 2024.
File: s13222-024-00468-3
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Nilufar Ranji, Morteza Ezzabady, Frédéric Ieng, Jinghua Groppe, Farah Benamara, and Sven Groppe,
Construction and Canonicalization of Economic Knowledge Graphs with LLMs, in International Knowledge Graph and Semantic Web Conference (KGSWC) , Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. pp. 334–343.
ISBN:9783031812217
File: 978-3-031-81221-7_23
M. A. Jabbar, Sanju Tiwari, Fernando Ortiz-Rodríguez, Sven Groppe, and Tasneem Bano Rehman,
Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics: 6th International Conference, AMLDA 2023, Lübeck, Germany, November 9–10, 2023, Revised Selected Papers., .... Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
ISBN:9783031554865
File: 978-3-031-55486-5
Nitin Nayak, Manuel Schönberger, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Sven Groppe, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Quantum Annealing: Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montréal, Québec, Canada , 2024.
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Jinghua Groppe, Jessica Lückert, Sanju Tiwari, and Sven Groppe,
Assessing the Impact of Government Policies on Covid-19 Spread: A Machine Learning Approach, in 10th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Tuscany, Italy , 2024.
Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Jinghua Groppe, Jessica Lückert, Sanju Tiwari, and Sven Groppe,
Assessing the Impact of Government Policies on Covid-19 Spread: A Machine Learning Approach, in 10th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD), Tuscany, Italy , 2024.
Sylvio Barbon Junior, Paolo Ceravolo, Sven Groppe, Mustafa Jarrar, Samira Maghool, Florence Sèdes, Soror Sahri, and Maurice Van Keulen,
Are Large Language Models the New Interface for Data Pipelines?, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, Santiago, Chile , Association for Computing Machinery, 2024.
File: 3663741.3664785
Zeinab Sadat Rabani, Hanieh Khorashadizadeh, Shirin Abdollahzade, Sven Groppe, and Javad Ghofrani,
Developers’ Perspective on Trustworthiness of Code Generated by ChatGPT: Insights from Interviews, in Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics (AMLDA 2023), Lübeck, Germany , Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. pp. 215–229.
File: 978-3-031-55486-5_16
Fatima Zahra Amara, Sven Groppe, Sanju Tiwari, Mounir Hemam, and Meriem Djezzar,
Exploring the Determinants of Semantic Internet of Things in Healthcare, in Roles and Challenges of Semantic Intelligence in Healthcare Cognitive Computing , IOS Press, 2024.
ISBN:9781643684611
File: SSW230026
Maja Franz, Tobias Winker, Sven Groppe, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Hype or Heuristic? Quantum Reinforcement Learning for Join Order Optimisation, in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) , 2024. pp. 409-420.
File: QCE60285.2024.00055
Paolo Ceravolo, Tiziana Catarci, Marco Console, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Sven Groppe, Katja Hose, Jaroslav Pokorný, Oscar Romero, and Robert Wrembel,
moduli: A Disaggregated Data Management Architecture for Data-Intensive Workflows, SIGWEB Newsl. , vol. 2024, no. Winter, 2024. Association for Computing Machinery.
File: 3643603.3643607
Nitin Nayak, Manuel Schönberger, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Sven Groppe, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
QCE'24 Tutorial: Quantum Annealing - Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, arXiv , vol. arXiv:2411.04638, 2024.
File: 2411.04638
Nitin Nayak, Manuel Schönberger, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Sven Groppe, Jiaheng Lu, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Quantum Annealing: Emerging Exploration for Database Optimization, in IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), Montréal, Québec, Canada , 2024.

2023

Jinghua Groppe, Sven Groppe, and Ralf Möller,
Variables are a Curse in Software Vulnerability Prediction, in The 34th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Panang, Malaysia , 2023.
File: 978-3-031-39847-6_41
Benjamin Warnke, Stefan Fischer, and Sven Groppe,
Using Machine Learning and Routing Protocols for Optimizing Distributed SPARQL Queries in Collaboration, Computers , vol. 12, no. 10, 2023.
File: computers12100210
Bibtex: BibTeX
@article{Warnke2023UsingMLDistributed,
  author = {Benjamin Warnke and Stefan Fischer and Sven Groppe},
  title = {Using Machine Learning and Routing Protocols for Optimizing Distributed SPARQL Queries in Collaboration},
  journal = {Computers},
  volume = {12},
  year = {2023},
  number = {10},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12100210}
}
Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, and Ching-Hsien Hsu,
Third International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), in Companion of the 2023 International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Seattle, WA, USA , 2023.
File: 3555041.3590821
Sven Groppe,
Renewal of the Major Fields of New-Generation Computing, New Gener. Comput. , pp. 1 - 2, 2023.
File: s00354-023-00206-5
Tobias Winker, Sven Groppe, Valter Uotila, Zhengtong Yan, Jiaheng Lu, Maja Franz, and Wolfgang Mauerer,
Quantum Machine Learning: Foundation, New Techniques, and Opportunities for Database Research, in Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD) , 2023.
File: 3555041.3589404
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{SIGMOD23Tutorial,
author = {Tobias Winker and Sven Groppe and Valter Uotila and Zhengtong Yan and Jiaheng Lu and Maja Franz and Wolfgang Mauerer},
title = {Quantum Machine Learning: Foundation, New Techniques, and Opportunities for Database Research},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)},
location = {Seattle metropolitan area, Washington, USA},
year = {2023},
pages = {},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3555041.3589404}
}
Tobias Winker, Umut Çalıkyılmaz, Le Gruenwald, and Sven Groppe,
Quantum Machine Learning for Join Order Optimization using Variational Quantum Circuits, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA , 2023.
File: 3579142.3594299
Bibtex: BibTeX
@inproceedings{Winker2023QML_JOO,
	title = {Quantum Machine Learning for Join Order Optimization using Variational Quantum Circuits},
	author = {Tobias Winker and Umut Çalıkyılmaz and Le Gruenwald and Sven Groppe},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments (BiDEDE), Seattle, WA, USA},
	year = {2023},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3579142.3594299}
}
Sven Groppe, Le Gruenwald, and Ching{-}Hsien Hsu,
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Big Data in Emergent Distributed Environments, BiDEDE 2023, Seattle, WA, USA., .... ACM, 2023.
File: 3579142