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Me

I am Oriol, a predoctoral researcher in quantum machine learning. My research focuses on the scalability of generative quantum models for noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) hardware and beyond.

I studied Computer Science at the Universitat de Girona and Complex Systems Modeling at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.


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Experience

Sep 2026 – Dec 2026

Visiting Researcher

Improving the efficiency of training latent-style quantum GANs for drug design.

Jun 2024 – Present

Predoctoral Researcher

Industrial PhD between Eurecat and the QML-CVC group at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, working on scalable generative models for near-term quantum computers.

Feb 2024 – Jun 2024

Research Intern

Worked on variational quantum algorithms and quantum architecture search for computer vision, particularly satellite image classification.


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Research

2026

Diagnosing quantum reservoirs at scale based on expressivity and coverage

Laia Domingo, Oriol Balló-Gimbernat, Fernando Vilariño

arXiv preprint

2026

Shallow instantaneous quantum polynomial-time circuits for generative modeling on noisy intermediate-scale quantum hardware

Oriol Balló-Gimbernat, Marcos Arroyo-Sánchez, Paula García-Molina, Adan Garriga, Fernando Vilariño

Physical Review A (Open Access)

2026

Practical insights on the effect of different encodings, ansätze and measurements in quantum and hybrid convolutional neural networks

Jesús Lozano-Cruz, Albert Nieto-Morales, Oriol Balló-Gimbernat, Adan Garriga, Antón Rodríguez-Otero, Alejandro Borrallo-Rentero

Quantum Machine Intelligence

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