Greetings from Venice

In July 2025, Noga Entin attended the biannual FisMat 2025 in Italy, a conference organized by CNISM, the National Interuniversity Consortium for the Physical Sciences of Matter. Noga gave a talk about pulse optimization on the hardware level. “My research, at Dr. Adi Makmal’s Quantum Computing and Machine Learning research group, explores quantum algorithms,” she shares.

In her research, Entin developed a freestyle method for pulse optimization on the hardware level. “This method bypasses gate circuits, allows for more flexibility, and improves computing times and noise resistance,” she explains. “Over the past year I have been a research assistant at the Faculty of Engineering, and continued to pursue my research with the aim of generalizing it for a greater number of qubits. Additionally, we are working on analyzing the entanglement generated by pulses, working under the understanding that full entanglement is not always mandatory to reach the desired result.”

Noga delivered her lecture as part of the session titled Simulating Strongly Correlated Physics with Quantum Computers. "It was a very interesting session, with diverse lectures on the topic. It was nice to present to an audience of experienced researchers in the field, who also asked questions and expressed interest. The conference also gave me an opportunity to meet not only researchers from abroad, but also Israeli researchers whose research I hadn't been exposed to before."

Noga, 25, has recently begun her doctorate in computer engineering. She completed her bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at the Holon Institute of Technology, and her master's degree in mathematics, in the data science track, while completing her thesis at the Faculty of Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Makmal. "Adi's supervision is amazing both on the professional level and on the personal level. Adi always encourages us to ask questions, open up to new avenues, read new papers in order to be at the forefront of research. I learned so much from her about how to research properly, raise research questions, read material, and address problems that always arise during research work – things I'm sure I'll take forward with me into my doctorate as well."