Giuseppe Bisicchia is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa. His research lies at the intersection of Software Engineering, distributed systems, Cloud-Edge computing, and Quantum Computing, with a focus on methods and tools for executing, distributing, benchmarking, and engineering quantum programs on cloud-accessible NISQ devices. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa with honors, defending the thesis Distributed Execution of Quantum Programs. He previously received, with honors, an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and a double-degree Master Universitario en Ingenieria Informatica from the Universidad de Malaga, where he ranked first in his cohort and received the Premio Extraordinario Jose Maria Troya. He has held two GARR research scholarships on Cloud-IoT orchestration and multi-cloud monitoring, contributing to a monitoring and benchmarking system now in production on a national federated cloud. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universidad de Extremadura and at Simula Research Laboratory. Alongside his research, he teaches Cloud Computing labs, supervises student work on quantum software engineering, organizes scientific outreach events including the Quantum Festival, and is a Qiskit Advocate for IBM Quantum.

Giuseppe Bisicchia

Experience

  • Nov 2025 - Now, Postdoctoral Research Fellow on Techniques and tools for the distributed execution of quantum programs, University of Pisa, Italy.
  • Sep 2025 - Now, Qiskit Advocate, IBM Quantum.
  • May 2024 - Now, External Teacher, Fondazione ISI / ISI Lab, Pisa, Italy - preparing and delivering soft- and hard-skill activities for secondary-school students through block-based and Python programming of robotic arms.
  • Feb 2024 - Now, Scientific Committee Member and Local Organiser, Italian Quantum Weeks, Pisa, Italy.
  • May 2024 - Jun 2024, Visiting Scholar, Department of Engineering Complex Software Systems, Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway.
  • May 2023 - Nov 2025, Technical-Scientific Committee Member, BeQuantum, Italy - contributing to the first Italian community dedicated to quantum science and technologies and to its editorial/science-communication activities.
  • May 2023 - Jun 2023, Visiting Scholar, Quercus Software Engineering Group, Universidad de Extremadura and COMPUTAEX Foundation, Caceres, Spain.
  • Jan 2023 - Now, Teaching Assistant in the Cloud Computing course, University of Pisa, Italy.
  • Dec 2022 - Now, External Teacher conducting afternoon labs on Introduction to Computational Thinking and Coding and Robotics for middle school students, I.C.S. "L. Fibonacci", Pisa, Italy.
  • Mar 2022 - Oct 2022, Research Fellow, Consortium GARR, Italy - Orio Carlini scholarship extension on Continuous, Autonomic and QoS-compliant Management of Applications on the GARR Network.
  • Mar 2021 - Mar 2022, Research Fellow, Consortium GARR, Italy - Orio Carlini scholarship on Continuous Reasoning for the QoS-compliant Management of Services on Cloud-IoT Infrastructures.
  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2026, Mentor, Pisa CoderDojo, Pisa, Italy - mentoring free programming and computational-thinking activities for young learners.

Education

  • Nov 2022 - Nov 2025, PhD in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy. Thesis Distributed Execution of Quantum Programs. Awarded Feb 2026, excellent with honors.
  • Sep 2020 - Jul 2022, MSc in Computer Science (Curriculum ICT Solutions Architect), University of Pisa, Italy, 110/110 cum laude.
  • Sep 2020 - Jul 2022, MSc in Computer Science and Engineering (Curriculum Cybersecurity), University of Málaga, Spain, 9.88/10 & Matrícula de Honor.
  • Sep 2017 - Jul 2020, BSc in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy, 110/110 cum laude.

Awards

  • Quantum Excellence from the Qiskit Global Summer School, 2025.
  • Quantum Excellence from the Qiskit Global Summer School, 2024.
  • Distinguished Paper Award from the International Conference of Service Oriented Computing for the paper "Distributing Quantum Computations, by Shots", 2023.
  • Premio Extraordinario “José María Troya" from the Council of the Higher Technical School of Computer Engineering at the University of Malaga, 2023.