IDAL was represented at the Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning and Biomimetic Quantum Technologies (http://www.qutisgroup.com/qml_bqt/), held in Bilbao from 19th to 23rd March 2018. José D. Martín-Guerrero, who took part in the organizing and scientific committees of the workshop, gave a keynote talk entitled “Enhancing ML through the synergy of classical and quantum approaches” and participated in the round table “Quantum meets Industry”. Raúl Casaña-Eslava gave a talk about his work on Probabilistic Quantum Clustering. The workshop has attracted more than 100 attendants, being among them the most representative researchers of the world in the field of Quantum Machine Learning. The scientific activity has been hectic during all the week with the presentation of many outstanding works.

Raúl Casaña-Eslava, a former IDAL researcher who is currently carrying out his PhD at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), received the best paper award at the summer school on Machine Learning organized by the Institute of New Imaging Technologies (INIT) of the University Jaume I (Castellón, Spain) and co-sponsored by the Spanish Association of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (AERFAI). Raúl presented his recent work on Probabilistic Quantum Clustering, one of the cornerstones of his PhD. The awarded poster was co-authored by two other members of the Department of Applied Mathematics at LJMU and by the IDAL member José D. Martín-Guerrero.