The First International Workshop on Distributed Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet Computing
(DisQIC 2026)
a Half Day Workshop
at ICDCS2026 (June 22 - 25, 2026, Seoul, South Korea)
STATUS: CALLING for PAPERS!
The First International Workshop on Distributed Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet Computing
(DisQIC 2026)
a Half Day Workshop
at ICDCS2026 (June 22 - 25, 2026, Seoul, South Korea)
STATUS: CALLING for PAPERS!
Quantum computing is gathering momentum in research and in many parts of the world, with increasing industry and government support and initiatives. Recent times have seen many researchers looking at how distributed quantum computing, modular quantum computing, or multinode quantum computing can be a means to scale up quantum computations, beyond monolithic hardware approaches. However, this requires connecting multiple quantum processing units or modules via a quantum (and classical) network, whether the modules are within the same shelf or geographically kilometres apart.
Quantum networking, at Quantum Internet scale, or smaller (e.g., Quantum Local Area Networks), and the notion of quantum data centres, have also been key topics of current active research. There are also questions on how to best integrate quantum processing with high performance computing (e.g., GPUs), say, for fault-tolerance or to enact hybrid computational workflows that exploit the best of both paradigms. While theoretical aspects on distributed quantum computing have been studied since decades ago, studies have continued, looking to more aspects.
Given the above current context, the First International Workshop on Distributed Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet Computing (DisQIC 2026) aims to provide a timely forum for discussions on all aspects of distributed quantum computing, including the involvement of quantum networking, at software, middleware and hardware levels.
At ICDCS, this workshop can serve as a bridge between the classical distributed computing (and Internet computing and Internet of Things) communities, and communities working on quantum computing and the quantum Internet, including those working at the intersection of both areas.
Topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
• distributed quantum computing models, paradigms, and programming languages
• distributed quantum computing algorithms
• distributed quantum computing and quantum Internet computing applications
• interplay of quantum networking and distributed quantum computations
• optimisations for diitributed quantum computations
• fault-tolerance and error correction for distributed quantum computing
• workflows for hybrid quantum computing and high performance computing
• compilation for distributed quantum computing
• management and execution of distributed quantum computing computations
• middleware and operating systems for distributed quantum computing and quantum Internet computing
• quantum data centres
• acquiring entanglement resources for distributed quantum computing
• theoretical foundations for distributed quantum computing
Workshop Co-Organizers / Co-Chairs
Seng Loke, Deakin University, Australia
Stephen DiAdamo, Qoro Quantum
Yufei Ding, University of California, San Diego, USA
David Q. Liu, Purdue University, USA
Raymond P.H. Wu, Deakin University, Australia
Jinho Choi, Adelaide University, Australia
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: 15th March 2026 20th April 2026 (new extended deadline)
Paper notification: 30th April 2026
Camera Ready Deadline: 10th May, 2026
Paper Submissions: Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Also, they must show a significant relevance to the workshop. Submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Organizers and the workshop's Program Committee. Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered.
The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting instructions, can be found here. Papers must be at most 6 pages of technical content (10pt font, 2-column format) for regular papers, or 4 pages for short papers, including references, text, figures, and tables.
All workshop papers require a full registration.
Paper Submission Website: Via Easychair conference system (https://easychair.org/my2/conference?conf=ieeeicdcsworkshops20)
Program Committee
Michal Hajdusek, Keio University, Japan
Davide Ferrari, University of Parma, Italy
Siyi Chen, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Yu Liu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Jingbo Wang, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Pascal Elahi, Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Australia
David Elkouss, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Hiroaki Kobayashi, Tohoku University, Japan
Kaushik Seshadreesan, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Binjie He, Fuzhou University, China
Jiapeng Zhao, Cisco Quantum Labs