Biography: Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. From 1990 and up to 2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece. Since 2004, after his election, he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as associate professor in Digital Systems and Signal Processing, till 12/2018, as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor in Communication Systems (the latter since 2002 and up to 2010). Since 10/2018 is Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the EPOKA university, Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana, Albania as well as Associate Prof. in Digital Systems and Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing, in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General. He has published more than 70 research refereed journal papers in various areas of intelligent and distributed/multiagent systems, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 185 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent and distributed systems, multiagent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image and signal processing and systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking as well as security. He has served as program committee member as well as program chair and general chair in several international workshops and conferences in the fields of signal, image, communication and automation systems. He is, also, former editor in chief (2008-2016) of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), academic editor in the TWSJ, ISRN Communications and the Applied Mathematics Hindawi journals as well as associate editor in various scientific journals, including CAAI, IET. He has been cited in more than 2144 research papers, his H/G-indices are 19/47 (Google Scholar) and his Erdos number is 5. His RG score is 30.96.

Abstract: The subject of this tutorial session is the presentation of the state of the art in quantum computing systems and algorithms aiming at illustrating these algorithms and systems as well as the main associated open problems in the field along with the so far proposed relevant solutions, with emphasis on the application of these systems and algorithms especially to complex real-time computational problems.

More specifically, the following issues will be mainly considered regarding the state of the art and the related open problems in quantum computing and especially quantum algorithms design in solving real world problems:
● Designing Quantum Algorithms: How would they work on a real quantum computer and mainly which are the advantages in solving real world problems
● Quantum error tolerance and error correction --- necessary to achieve large-scale computations
● Simulation of quantum systems in general and quantum computers in particular, in classical and quantum computers
● Optimization of quantum algorithms, control signals, circuits and programs
● Creating large-scale quantum processors and quantum memory
● Developing tests for quantum material: is it really quantum?