Roy Hermanns

Email

roy.hermanns at cs.rwth-aachen.de

Address

Room 4210
Ahornstraße 55
D-52074 Aachen

Phone

+49 241 80 21208

I am a PhD student in the Software Modeling and Verification Group headed by Professor Joost-Pieter Katoen. I also work closely with the Quantum Technology Group headed by Professor Hendrik Bluhm.

Research

My reasearch involves on the lower levels of quantum compilation, i.e. generation, scheduling, and optimization of device operation for quantum processors. The focus lies on quantum processor architectures featuring shuttling-operations, that allow physically moving qubits.

More specific topics of interest are:

• Qubit Routing via Multi-Agent Pathfinding methods
• Quantum Error Correction

Thesis Projects

If you are interested in writing a Bachelor/Master’s thesis in the area quantum compiler optimization feel free to contact me. Currently there are no open thesis topics, but You are invited to bring own ideas, or we can develop new ad-hoc topics in ongoing research.

Teaching

I’m assisting in:

• Compiler Construction (SS25)
• Practical Course – Implementation of Heuristic Algorithms for Board Games (SS25)
• Concurrency Theory (WS25/26)

Publications