Formal Verification of Quantum Logic Circuits. The project aims to develop comprehensive theory and effective techniques for formal modelling, equivalence checking, and model checking of quantum circuits. The research is timely as the rapid growth of quantum computing hardware makes it an urgent task to develop verification techniques for quantum hardware design and quantum compilers. The successful development of the algorithms and software tools proposed in this project will significantly adva ....Formal Verification of Quantum Logic Circuits. The project aims to develop comprehensive theory and effective techniques for formal modelling, equivalence checking, and model checking of quantum circuits. The research is timely as the rapid growth of quantum computing hardware makes it an urgent task to develop verification techniques for quantum hardware design and quantum compilers. The successful development of the algorithms and software tools proposed in this project will significantly advance the knowledge on formal verification of quantum circuits and help Australian quantum start-ups build and maintain an internationally leading position in the rapidly emerging quantum electronic design automation (EDA) industry.Read moreRead less
Coupling Techniques for Reasoning about Quantum Programs. Quantum software is indispensable for unleashing the super-power of quantum computing. This project aims to develop, for the first time, effective techniques for reasoning about the equivalence of quantum programs, with applications for verifying quantum compilers and quantum cryptographic protocols. The successful development of the outcomes and tools proposed in this project will significantly advance the knowledge on logical and mathem ....Coupling Techniques for Reasoning about Quantum Programs. Quantum software is indispensable for unleashing the super-power of quantum computing. This project aims to develop, for the first time, effective techniques for reasoning about the equivalence of quantum programs, with applications for verifying quantum compilers and quantum cryptographic protocols. The successful development of the outcomes and tools proposed in this project will significantly advance the knowledge on logical and mathematical foundations of quantum programming theory and thereby help Australian industries to build frontier technologies for quantum software engineering – in particular for quantum compilers – as well as establish and preserve their competitive status in the quantum computing era.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE220100595
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$416,400.00
Summary
Efficient privacy-preserving proofs for secure e-government and e-voting. Electronic systems are becoming increasingly widespread and crucial to social and economic wellbeing. This project aims to ensure that e-government, e-health, e-commerce and e-voting are secure and trustworthy by inventing new ways to verify these systems without infringing privacy. This project expects to use innovative techniques from cryptography to support development of trustworthy systems. Expected outcomes of this p ....Efficient privacy-preserving proofs for secure e-government and e-voting. Electronic systems are becoming increasingly widespread and crucial to social and economic wellbeing. This project aims to ensure that e-government, e-health, e-commerce and e-voting are secure and trustworthy by inventing new ways to verify these systems without infringing privacy. This project expects to use innovative techniques from cryptography to support development of trustworthy systems. Expected outcomes of this project include better support for organisations to build trustworthy systems that will maximise benefit to Australian business and society. This should provide significant commercial, reputational, and societal benefits by avoiding disruptions to the organisations and their clients if and when they are attacked. Read moreRead less
A framework for scalable ontology enrichment and change. This project aims to develop novel techniques and software systems for constructing a new generation of knowledge management applications. The results will improve current information management technologies and will be used in practical applications such as the semantic web, bioinformatics and e-sciences.
Practical Automated Deduction. This project will develop, implement and validate improved methods for automated deduction in decidable fragments of first order logic, also incorporating reasoning in special theories such as arithmetic. It will significantly extend previous work on the model evolution calculus and dynamic semantic resolution, and introduce new techniques that combine these reasoning methods. This work has direct application to reasoning about business rules and about industrial o ....Practical Automated Deduction. This project will develop, implement and validate improved methods for automated deduction in decidable fragments of first order logic, also incorporating reasoning in special theories such as arithmetic. It will significantly extend previous work on the model evolution calculus and dynamic semantic resolution, and introduce new techniques that combine these reasoning methods. This work has direct application to reasoning about business rules and about industrial optimisation problems, and it will motivate and test our systems by means of case studies from both of these areas.Read moreRead less