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Maria Gragera Garces

PhD Student

m.Gragera-Garces@sms.ed.ac.uk

Research Interests:

  • Distributed Quantum Computing

  • Quantum networks

  • Quantum Internet

Maria is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof Chris Heunen and Prof Mahesh Marina at the Quantum Software Lab. Her research focuses on distributed quantum computing, She has previously worked in the quantum industry within Quantinuum's compiler team, IBM Quantum and Cisco's R&D team.

  • ”Quantum Ring All-Reduce: Communication and Privacy Advantages for Distributed Learning", M. Gragera Garcés and L. Pira, arXiv preprint, 2026. arXiv:2606.20344

  • “On the Distortion of Partitioning Performance by Random Quantum Circuits", M. Gragera Garcés, ICDCS 2026 Workshops (DisQIC), 2026. arXiv:2605.01974

  • “Distributed Quantum Circuit Optimisation: Evaluating Global and Local Encodings", M. Gragera Garcés and M. Haghparast, ICDCS 2026 Workshops (DisQIC), 2026. arXiv:2605.02727

  • “Distributed Quantum Error Mitigation: Global and Local ZNE Encodings", M. Gragera Garcés, IEEE INFOCOM 2026 Workshops (QUNAP), 2026. arXiv:2602.04981

  • ”Distributed Quantum Computing Across Heterogeneous Hardware with Hybrid Dependency Hypergraphs", M. Gragera Garcés, C. Heunen, and M. Marina, Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2025 Posters and Demos, 2025. DOI: 10.1145/3744969.3748417

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