Selected Projects

A selection of our completed projects. Each has a short summary here; the full write-up and downloadable documents are on the project pages.

Hybrid optimization method

Quantum in the airline industry

A hybrid quantum-classical optimization method was developed for the Airline Crew Pairing problem, in which quantum and classical systems cooperate within the same optimization pipeline. The approach shows long-term promise, while current quantum hardware still limits the size of problems that can be solved.

Research article · October 2026

Fewer reconfigurations, better network utilization

The minimum Birkhoff decomposition problem is NP-hard and arises, among other fields, in data center and satellite switch scheduling. Our new method, RCS, gives exact decompositions for all 375 instances of the Quantum Optimization Benchmarking Library, proves 197 of them optimal, and never gives a longer decomposition than the best exact one previously submitted to the library.