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LIACS Thesis Repository

Leiden University

These webpages contain theses and reports by students affiliated with the various bachelor and master programmes offered at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), the computer science and artificial intelligence department of Leiden University.

Note: the overview per supervisor is likely partially incomplete.


Year Student ThesisSupervisorsProgrammeContent
2025Marshall, S.C. (Simon)Separating Quantum and Classical Computing Rigorous Proof and Practica...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., Bäck, prof.dr. T.H.W., Nieuwenburg van, dr. E.P.L.PhD
2024Gyurik, C.F.S. (Casper)Computational Speedups and Learning Separations in Quantum Machine Lea...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., Plaat, prof.dr. A.PhD
2023‑2024Dinu, C. (Catalin-Viorel)An Adaptive Re-evaluation Method for Evolution Strategy under Additive...Wang, dr. H., Dunjko, prof.dr. V.CS
2023‑2024Shi, C. (Chenyu)Effects of Observable Choices in the Performance of Variational Quantu...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., Pérez SalinasCS
2023‑2024Biervliet, D. (Darryn)Reinforcement Learning with Partitioned Quantum CircuitsDunjko, prof.dr. V., S. MarshallInf
2023Moussa, C. (Charles)Algorithm Selection and Configuration for Noisy Intermediate Scale Qua...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., Bäck, prof.dr. T.H.W.PhD
2023Skolik, A. (Andrea)Quantum Machine Learning: On the Design, Trainability and Noise-Robust...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., Bäck, prof.dr. T.H.W.PhD
2022‑2023Middelkoop, RichardInvestigating the application of genetic algorithms to design paramete...Nieuwenburg van, dr. E.P.L., Dunjko, prof.dr. V.CS
2022‑2023Dellaert, Jasper Analysing the inductive biases of equivariant quan- tum circuitsDunjko, prof.dr. V., Pérez SalinasCS
2021‑2022Apostolou, V.Effects of symmetry breaking in the performance and the design of Quan...Jordi Tura-Brugues, Dunjko, prof.dr. V.CS
2021‑2022Prehn, E.Investigating Deep Learning of DFT Functionals for the 1D Hubbard Mode...Dr. J. Tura Brugués, Dunjko, prof.dr. V.CS
2021‑2022Visser, L.Near-term quantum algorithms for regression, overfitting analysis and ...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., Laarman, dr. A.W.CS
2021‑2022Hertogh, G. (Guus)Low-Depth QAOA and RQAOA for Max-Cut on Irregular GraphsDunjko, prof.dr. V., Y. PatelInf
2020‑2021Swenne, MartijnNew Decision Diagram-based Techniques for the Simulation of Quantum Co...Laarman, dr. A.W., Dunjko, prof.dr. V.CS
2020‑2021Peters, OrsonQuantum speedups for Monte Carlo Tree SearchDunjko, prof.dr. V.CS
2020‑2021Planken, D. (Daan)Reducing the required number of qubits for a quantum algorithm for top...C. Gyurik, Dunjko, prof.dr. V.Inf
2020‑2021Poelsma, J. (Julian)Optimizing a Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm using machine ...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., C. MoussaInf
2020‑2021Talsma, M. (Marit)Quantum topological data analysis on near-term devicesDunjko, prof.dr. V., C. GyurikInf
2019‑2020Blom, M. (Miguel)Hybrid Classical-Quantum Speedups for the Random k-SAT Problem using S...dr. M. Rennela, Dunjko, prof.dr. V.Inf
2019‑2020Bouwman, K. (Koen)Q-learning with Parameterized Quantum Circuits: Design, Implementation...Dunjko, prof.dr. V., C. GyurikInf
2018‑2019Dijk, Stef vanSolving Othello using BDDsLaarman, dr. A.W., Dunjko, prof.dr. V.CS
2018‑2019Mardirosian, SevakQuantum-enhanced Supervised Learning with Variational Quantum CircuitsDunjko, prof.dr. V., Laarman, dr. A.W., C. v.d. StruijfCS
2018‑2019Swenne, M.M. (Marijn)Solving SAT on Noisy Quantum ComputersDunjko, prof.dr. V., Laarman, dr. A.W.Inf