Nico Meyer

Nico Meyer, M.Sc.

External PhD Researcher

Department of Computer Science
Chair of Computer Science 5 (Pattern Recognition)

Room: Room 10.137

Office hours

I am an external PhD and only work at the PRL irregularily.
In case you want to reach out it is easiest to use my company mail (below).

I kindly ask not to send me any requests for theses or student projects. If I have such available, you will find the announcement on the Fraunhofer job portal: https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/de/jobs/stellen.html🙂

 

My research focus: Exploring the interesection of quantum computing and machine learning, in particular in the field of quantum error correction (and formerly quantum reinforcement learning).

Senior Scientist
Fraunhofer IIS
Department Machine Intelligence
Quantum Compilation Group

Room N2.1.2.05
Nordostpark 84
90411 Nürnberg
Mail: nico.meyer@iis.fraunhofer.de

 

  • Since 12/2023:
    External PhD Student at Pattern Recognition Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Since 01/2022:
    Researcher at Self-Learning Systems / Quantum Compilation Group, Fraunhofer IIS
  • 04/2019 – 12/2021:
    M.Sc. Computer Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 10/2015 – 03/2019:
    B.Sc. Computer Science, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 10/2014 – 09/2015:
    Bachelor studies in Mathematics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

See Google Scholar

  • [07/2025] Best Talk Award at ML4QT, Heilbronn (endowned with 6.000€ by Dieter Schwarz Foundation)
    Talk: “Variational Quantum Error Correction: Learning Noise-Adaptive Encoding Schemes with ML”
  • [11/2023] Finalist Quantum Future Award at BMBF, Berlin
    Thesis: “Variational Quantum Circuits for Policy Approximation”
  • [09/2023] Best Paper Award (2nd place) at IEEE QCE, Seattle
    Paper: “An Empirical Comparison of Optimizers for Quantum ML with SPSA-based Gradients”

Summer semester: Reinforcement Learning [Website]