Marco Venere, a student in the Ph.D. program in Information Technology at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, has won a research grant funded by UnitaryFund, a non-profit organization that aims to support the quantum technologies ecosystem for the benefit of the research community. In recent years, it has supported a remarkable portfolio of projects, thanks to the support of leading companies in the quantum computing field, including IBM Quantum, Scientifica, Agnostiq, Pasqal, Amazon AWS and Cisco.

The project is about integrating error mitigation techniques within an open-source framework for QAOA, a well-known quantum algorithm aimed at solving optimization problems. The idea behind the project was developed by Marco Venere during his experience at the Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF), where he collaborated with Adriano Lusso (Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Buenos Aires) under the supervision of Victor Onofre (QOSF) and Alberto Maldonado (IBM).

The Quantum Open Source Foundation supports research and development of open-source projects in the field of quantum computing, fostering the professional growth of university students by assigning them mentors from companies or research institutions.