Quantum computing holds immense potential to revolutionize fields ranging from cryptography to artificial intelligence. However, as the field advances, concerns regarding security, privacy, and resilience become increasingly critical. As quantum hardware and architectures mature, safeguarding quantum infrastructure against emerging threats is essential. Despite ongoing advancements, the research community faces major challenges in developing robust security models, ensuring quantum-safe cryptographic techniques, and mitigating side-channel vulnerabilities in quantum systems. This workshop on Quantum Computing Security, Privacy, and Resilience (Q-Sec)  aims to address these challenges by fostering interdisciplinary discussions among researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers.

The Q-Sec Workshop is motivated by critical issues in quantum security, privacy, and resilience. It aims to bring together academia, industry, and government stakeholders to discuss state-of-the-art research, share practical experiences, and shape future directions for securing quantum computing systems. This workshop solicits novel contributions, ongoing research results, open challenges, and emerging trends. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Security and privacy challenges in quantum computing

• Side-channel vulnerabilities in modular quantum architectures

• Post-quantum cryptography and hybrid quantum-classical security frameworks

• Privacy-preserving quantum computations and secure multi-party quantum computing

• Threat modeling and mitigation strategies for quantum hardware

• Secure architectures for quantum networking and communication protocols

• Security risks in quantum-enhanced AI and adversarial robustness

• Verification and validation of quantum security frameworks

• Real-world case studies and attack simulations on quantum systems

• Hardware-level vulnerabilities in superconducting, trapped-ion, and photonic quantum processors

• Trusted execution environments for quantum computing

• Formal verification techniques for quantum security protocols

• Quantum-safe identity and authentication mechanisms

• Standardization and policy challenges for quantum cybersecurity

• Proactive defenses for quantum side-channel attacks, including quantum-assisted anomaly detection, dynamic circuit obfuscation, and timing randomization

• Quantum Neural Networks (QNN) for security and anomaly detection in quantum systems

• Quantum AI for threat prediction and mitigation in quantum computing

Papers must be formatted in the standard IEEE two-column format (IEEE Formatting Instructions) that is used by the IEEE QCE 2025 main conference and must not exceed four pages in length (including references).  All submitted papers will go through a peer review process, and all accepted papers, which are presented by one of the authors at the workshop, will be published in the QCE25 proceedings. 

Submit your paper using the EasyChair submission website, and select Track: 44-WKS-PAP: Workshop on QC Security, Privacy & Resilience

General Co-Chairs: 

Ying Wang (Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, USA), Contact: ywang6@stevens.edu 

Juntao Chen (Fordham University, NY, USA), Contact: jchen504@fordham.edu

Technical Program Committee: 

Hao Chen (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Makenzie Cosgrove (AFRL)

Junaid Farooq (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Zhu Han (University of Houston)

Basu Kanad (UT-Dallas)

Sastry Kompella (Nexcepta, Inc)

Tao Li (New York University)

Ying Mao (Fordham University)

Samah M Saeed (City University of New York)

Yong Meng Sua (Quantum Computing Inc)

Theodoros Trochatos (Yale University)

Wenqi Wei (Fordham University)

Lu Xiao (Stevens Institute of Technology)

Chuanqi Xu (Yale University)

Shengjie Xu (University of Arizona)