Publications

Books

Dr. Marco Pistoia has written a total of ten books, including the following:

1. Marco Pistoia, Nataraj Nagaratnam, Larry Koved, and Anthony Nadalin.

   • Enterprise Java Security - Building Secure J2EE Applications. ISBN 0321118898. Addison-Wesley. Reading, MA, February 2004.

   • 企业级Java安全性——构建安全的J2EE应用. ISBN 7302097445. Tsinghua University Press. People's Republic of China, March 2006.

2. Marco Pistoia, Duane F. Reller, Deepak Gupta, Milind Nagnur, and Ashok K. Ramani.  Java 2 Network Security, Second Edition. ISBN 0130155926. Prentice Hall PTR. Upper Saddle River, NJ, August 1999. 

3. Stina Andersson, Abraham Asfaw, Antonio Corcoles, Luciano Bello, Yael Ben-Haim, Mehdi Bozzo-Rey, Sergey Bravyi, Nicholas Bronn, Lauren Capelluto, Almudena Carrera Vazquez, Jack Ceroni, Richard Chen, Albert Frisch, Jay Gambetta, Shelly Garion, Leron Gil, Salvador De La Puente Gonzalez, Francis Harkins, Takashi Imamichi, Hwajung Kang, Amir h. Karamlou, Robert Loredo, David McKay, Antonio Mezzacapo, Zlatko Minev, Ramis Movassagh, Giacomo Nannicini, Paul Nation, Anna Phan, Marco Pistoia, Arthur Rattew, Joachim Schaefer, Javad Shabani, John Smolin, John Stenger, Kristan Temme, Madeleine Tod, Ellinor Wanzambi, Stephen Wood, James Wootton.  Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit.  Qiskit Community, 2020.

Select Refereed Journal Articles

1. Nature Reviews Physics
   Omar Amer, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Kaushik Chakraborty, Shaltiel Eloul, Niraj Kumar, Charles Lim, Minzhao Liu, Pradeep Niroula, Yash Satsangi, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Applications of Certified Randomness. Nature Reviews Physics, July 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s42254-025-00845-1.

2. APS Physical Review Research
   Martin J. A. Schuetz, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton, Romina Yalovetzky, Rudy Raymond, Yue Sun, Atithi Acharya, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia, Helmut G. Katzgraber. Quantum compilation toolkit for Rydberg atom arrays with implications for problem hardness and quantum speedups. Accepted for publication in American Physical Society (APS) Physical Review Research, June 2025. DOI: 10.1103/7dkh-crjj.

3. Nature Communications Physics
   Zichang He, David Amaro, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Performance of Quantum Approximate Optimization with Quantum ErrorDetection. Nature Communication Physics, Vol. 8, May 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s42005-025-02136-8.

4. Nature Partner Journal (npj) on Quantum Information
   Jamie Heredge, Niraj Kumar, Dylan Herman, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Romina Yalovetzky, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Changhao Li, Marco Pistoia. Characterizing privacy in quantum machine learning. Nature Partner Journal (npj) on Quantum Information, Vol. 11, Issue 1, Page 80, May 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s41534-025-01022-z.

5. APS Physical Review X
   M. DeCross,1, R. Haghshenas, M. Liu, E. Rinaldi, J. Gray, Y. Alexeev, C. H. Baldwin, J. P. Bartolotta, M. Bohn, E. Chertkov, J. Cline, J. Colina, D. DelVento, J. M. Dreiling, C. Foltz, J. P. Gaebler, T. M. Gatterman, C. N. Gilbreth, J. Giles, D. Gresh, A. Hall, A. Hankin, A. Hansen, N. Hewitt, I. Hoffman, C. Holliman, R. B. Hutson, T. Jacobs, J. Johansen, P. J. Lee, E. Lehman, D. Lucchetti, D. Lykov, I. S. Madjarov, B. Mathewson, K. Mayer, M. Mills, P. Niroula, J. M. Pino, C. Roman, M. Schecter, P. E. Siegfried, B. G. Tiemann, C. Volin, J. Walker, R. Shaydulin, M. Pistoia, S. A. Moses, D. Hayes, B. Neyenhuis, R. P. Stutz, M. Foss-Feig. Computational Power of Random Quantum Circuits in Arbitrary Geometries. American Physical Society (APS) Physical Review X, Vol. 15, Issue 2, May 2025. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.15.021052.

6. Nature
   Minzhao Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross, Shih-Han Hung, Wen Yu Kon, Enrique Cervero-Martín, Kaushik Chakraborty, Omar Amer, Scott Aaronson, Atithi Acharya, Yuri Alexeev, K. Jordan Berg, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Florian J. Curchod, Joan M. Dreiling, Neal Erickson, Cameron Foltz, Michael Foss-Feig, David Hayes, Travis S. Humble, Niraj Kumar, Jeffrey Larson, Danylo Lykov, Michael Mills, Steven A. Moses, Brian Neyenhuis, Shaltiel Eloul, Peter Siegfried, James Walker, Charles Lim, Marco Pistoia. Certified Randomness Using a Trapped-ion Quantum Processor. Nature, Vol. 640, No. 8048, March 2025. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08737-1.

7. Nature Reviews Physics
   Aleksandr Berezutskii, Atithi Acharya, Roman Ellerbrock, Johnnie Gray, Reza Haghshenas, Zichang He, Abid Khan, Viacheslav Kuzmin, Minzhao Liu, Dmitry Lyakh, Danylo Lykov, Salvatore Mandrà, Christopher Mansell, Alexey Melnikov, Artem Melnikov, Vladimir Mironov, Dmitry Morozov, Florian Neukart, Alberto Nocera, Michael A. Perlin, Michael Perelshtein, Ruslan Shaydulin, Benjamin Villalonga, Markus Pflitsch, Marco Pistoia, Valerii Vinokur, Yuri Alexeev. Tensor networks for quantum computing. Accepted for publication in Nature Reviews Physics.

8. Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science
   Niraj Kumar, Romina Yalovetzky, Changhao Li, Pierre Minssen, Marco Pistoia. Des-q: A Quantum Algorithm to Provably Speedup Retraining of Decision Trees. Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science, Vol. 9, January 2025.  DOI: 10.22331/q-2025-01-13-1588.

9. Nature Scientific Reports
   Zhiding Liang, Zichang He, Yue Sun, Dylan Herman, Qingyue Jiao, Yanzhang Zhu, Weiwen Jiang, Xiaowei Xu, Di Wu, Marco Pistoia, Yiyu Shi. Synergizing Quantum Techniques with Machine Learning for Advancing Drug Discovery Challenge. Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, No. 1, December 2024.  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-82576-4.

10. APS Physical Review Letters
    Changhao Li, Omar Amer, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Guoqing Wang, Haowei Xu, Hao Tang, Isidor Schoch, Niraj Kumar, Charles Lim, Ju Li, Paola Cappellaro, Marco Pistoia. Blind Quantum Machine Learning with Quantum Bipartite Correlator. American Physics Society (APS) Physical Review Letters, Vol. 133, Issue 12, September 2024.  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.120602.

11. Nature Communications
    Enrico Fontana, Dylan Herman, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Niraj Kumar, Romina Yalovetzky, Jamie Heredge, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Marco Pistoia. Characterizing barren plateaus in quantum ansätze with the adjoint representation.  Nature Communications, Vol. 15, No. 7171, August 2024.  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49910-w.

12. Science Advances
    Ruslan Shaydulin, Changhao Li, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Matthew DeCross, Dylan Herman, Niraj Kumar, Jeffrey Larson, Danylo Lykov, Pierre Minssen, Yue Sun, Yuri Alexeev, Joan M. Dreiling, John P. Gaebler, Thomas M. Gatterman, Justin A. Gerber, Kevin Gilmore, Dan Gresh, Nathan Hewitt, Chandler V. Horst, Shaohan Hu, Jacob Johansen, Mitchell Matheny, Tanner Mengle, Michael Mills, Steven A. Moses, Brian Neyenhuis, Peter Siegfried, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia.  Evidence of Scaling Advantage for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on a Classically Intractable Problem.  Science Advances, Vol. 10, No. 22, May 2024. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adm6761.

13. Springer Nature International Journal of Information Security
    Chun-Fu Chen, Bill Moriarty, Shaohan Hu, Sean Moran, Marco Pistoia, Vincenzo Piuri, Pierangela Samarati. Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization. Springer Nature International Journal of Information Security, Vol. 23, No. 4, May 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s10207-024-00862-8.

14. Quantum Science and Technology, Institute of Physics (IOP)
    Changhao Li, Niraj Kumar, Zhixin Song, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia. Privacy-Preserving Quantum Federated Learning via Gradient Hiding.  Quantum Science and Technology, Institute of Physics (IOP), Volume 9, Number 3, May 2024.  DOI: 10.1088/2058-9565/ad40cc.

15. Nature Scientific Reports
    Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Dylan Herman, Marco Pistoia. Solving Linear Systems on Quantum Hardware with Hybrid HHL++. Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, No. 1, April 2024. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69077-0.

16. Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science
    Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Joao Basso, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Yue Sun, Marco Pistoia.  Parameter Setting in Quantum Approximate Optimization of Weighted Problems.  Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science, Vol. 8, Page 1231, January 2024.  DOI: 10.22331/q-2024-01-18-1231.

17. APS Physical Review Research
    Ruben S. Andrist, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Pierre Minssen, Romina Yalovetzky, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Niraj Kumar, Grant Salton, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Marco Pistoia, Helmut G. Katzgraber.  Hardness of the Maximum Independent Set Problem on Unit-Disk Graphs and Prospects for Quantum Speedups.  Physical Review Research, Vol. 5, No. 4, December 2023.  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043277.

18. Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science
    El Amine Cherrat, Snehal Raj, Iordanis Kerenidis, Abhishek Shekhar, Ben Wood, Jon Dee, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Richard Chen, Dylan Herman, Shaohan Hu, Pierre Minssen, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia.  Quantum Deep Hedging.  Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science, Vol. 7, Page 1191, November 2023.

19. Nature Partner Journal (npj) on Quantum Information
    Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Changhao Li, Yue Sun, Marco Pistoia.  Alignment between Initial State and Mixer Improves QAOA Performance for Constrained Portfolio Optimization.  Nature Partner Journal (npj) on Quantum Information, Vol. 9, Issue 1, Page 121, November 2023. DOI: 10.1038/s41534-023-00787-5.

20. Nature Communications Physics
    Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Shaohan Hu, Pierre Minssen, Arthur Rattew, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia.  Constrained Optimization via Quantum Zeno Dynamics.  Nature Communications Physics, Vol. 6, No. 219, August 2023.

21. Nature Reviews Physics
    Dylan Herman, Cody Googin,, Xiaoyuan Liu, Yue Sun, Alexey Galda, Ilya Safro, Marco Pistoia, Yuri Alexeev.  Quantum Computing for Finance.  Nature Reviews Physics, Vol. 5, June 2023.

22. APS Physical Review A
    Lucas Slattery, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia, Sami Khairy, Stefan M. Wild.  Numerical Evidence against Advantage with Quantum Fidelity Kernels on Classical Data.  American Physical Society (APS) Physical Review A, May 2023. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.107.062417.

23. Quantum Science and Technology, Institute of Physics (IOP)
    Marco Pistoia, Omar Amer, Monik R. Behera, Joseph A. Dolphin, James F. Dynes, Benny John, Paul A. Haigh, Yasushi Kawakura, David H. Kramer, Jeffrey Lyon, Navid Moazzami, Tulasi D. Movva, Antigoni Polychroniadou, Suresh Shetty, Greg Sysak, Farzam Toudeh-Fallah, Sudhir Upadhyay, Robert I. Woodward, Andrew J. Shields.  Paving the Way towards 800 Gbps Quantum-Secured Optical Channel Deployment in Mission-Critical Environments.  Quantum Science and Technology, Institute of Physics (IOP), May 2023.  DOI: 10.1088/2058-9565/acd1a8.

24. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
    Dylan Herman, Rudy Raymond, Muyuan Li, Nicolas Robles, Antonio Mezzacapo, Marco Pistoia.  Expressivity of Variational Quantum Machine Learning on the Boolean Cube.  IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, Vol. 4, 2023.  DOI: 10.1109/TQE.2023.3255206.

25. Nature Scientific Reports
    Pradeep Niroula, Ruslan Shaydulin, Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Dylan Herman, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia.  Constrained Quantum Optimization for Extractive Summarization on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer.  Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 12, Article Number 17171, October 2022.

26. Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science
    Arthur Rattew, Yue Sun, Pierre Minssen, Marco Pistoia.  The Efficient Preparation of Normal Distributions in Quantum Registers.  Quantum – The Open Journal for Quantum Science, Vol. 5, Page 609, December 2021.

27. Journal of Physical Chemistry A
    Qi Gao, Hajime Nakamura, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Gavin O. Jones, Julia E. Rice, Stephen P. Wood, Marco Pistoia, Jeannette M. Garcia, Naoki Yamamoto. Computational Investigations of the Lithium Superoxide Dimer Rearrangement on Noisy Quantum Devices. Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 125, 9, 1827–1836, February 2021.

28. APS Physical Review Research
    Pauline J. Ollitrault, Abhinav Kandala, Chun-Fu Chen, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Antonio Mezzacapo, Marco Pistoia, Sarah Sheldon, Stefan Woerner, Jay Gambetta, Ivano Tavernelli.  Quantum Equation of Motion for Computing Molecular Excitation Energies on a Noisy Quantum Processor.  American Physical Society (APS) Physical Review Research, Vol. 2, Issue 4, October-December 2020.

29. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
    Kanav Setia, Richard Chen, Julia E. Rice, Antonio Mezzacapo, Marco Pistoia, James D. Whitfield.  Reducing Qubit Requirements for Quantum Simulations Using Molecular Point Group Symmetries.  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Vol. 16, Issue 10, August 2020.

30. The Journal of Chemical Physics
    Igor Sokolov, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Donny Greenberg, Pauline Ollitrault, Julia Rice, Marco Pistoia, Ivano Tavernelli.  Quantum Orbital-Optimized Unitary Coupled Cluster Methods in the Strongly Correlated Regime: Can Quantum Algorithms Outperform Their Classical Equivalents?  The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 152, Issue 12, March 2020.

31. IEEE Computer
    Peng Liu, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia, Chun-Fu Chen, Jay M. Gambetta.  Stochastic Optimization of Quantum Programs.  IEEE Computer 52(6): 58-67 (2019).

32. IEEE Computer
    Shaohan Hu, Peng Liu, Chun-Fu Chen, Marco Pistoia, Jay M. Gambetta.  Reduction-Based Problem Mapping for Quantum Computing.  IEEE Computer 52(6): 47-57 (2019).

33. IBM Journal of Research and Development
    Paul C. Castro, Joseph W. Ligman, Marco Pistoia, John Ponzo, Gegi S. Thomas and Umut Topkara.  Run-time Adaptive Multi-factor Authentication for Mobile Devices.  IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 57, Issue 6, November-December 2013.

34. IBM Journal of Research and Development
    Paul C. Castro, Joseph W. Ligman, Marco Pistoia, John Ponzo, Gegi S. Thomas, Stephen P. Wood and Mauro Baluda.  Enabling Bring-Your-Own-Device Using Mobile Application Instrumentation.  IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 57, Issue 6, November-December 2013.

35. IBM Journal of Research and Development
    Dragoş Sbîrlea, Michael G. Burke, Salvatore Guarnieri, Marco Pistoia and Vivek Sarkar.  Automatic Detection of Inter-application Permission Leaks in Android Applications.  IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 57, Issue 6, November-December 2013.

36. ACM Journal on Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
    Takaaki Tateishi, Marco Pistoia and Omer Tripp. Path- and Index-sensitive String Analysis based on Monadic Second-order Logic.  In Proceedings of ACM Journal on Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Volume 22, Number 4, October 2013.

37. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
    Shay Artzi, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip and Marco Pistoia.  Fault Localization for Dynamic Web Applications.  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Volume 38, Number 2, March - April 2012, pages 314-335.

38. ACM SIGPLAN Notices
    Marco Pistoia and Úlfar Erlingsson. Programming Languages and Program Analysis for Security: A Three-year Retrospective. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 43, Number 12, New York, NY, USA, December 2008.

39. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)
    Sharon Shoham, Eran Yahav, Stephen J. Fink, and Marco Pistoia. Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Volume 34, Number 5, Piscataway, NJ, USA, September 2008.

40. IBM Systems Journal
    Marco Pistoia, Satish Chandra, Stephen Fink, and Eran Yahav. A Survey of Static Analysis Methods for Identifying Security Vulnerabilities in Software Systems. IBM Systems Journal, volume 46, number 2, Armonk, NY, USA, May 2007. International Business Machines Corporation.

41. IBM Systems Journal
    Larry Koved, Anthony J. Nadalin, Nataraj Nagaratnam, Marco Pistoia, and Theodore Shrader. Security Challenges for Enterprise Java in an E-business Environment. IBM Systems Journal, volume 40, number 1, pages 130-152, Armonk, NY, USA, January 2001. International Business Machines Corporation. 

Select Refereed Conference Papers and Presentations

1. Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC)
   Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul, Shuchen Zhu, Brandon Augustino, Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Generalized short path algorithms: Towards super-quadratic speedup over Markov chain search for combinatorial optimization. Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2025), Bengaluru, India, July 2025.

2. International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
   Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Dylan Herman, Changhao Li, Rudy Raymond, Shreehari Sureshbabu, Marco Pistoia. Parameter Setting Heuristics Make the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Suitable for the Early Fault-Tolerant Era. International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Newark, NJ, USA, October 2024. Invited Special Session Paper.

3. G7
   Elizabeth Thomas-Raynaud, Tanja Lange, Isabelle Noblesse, Vasileios Rentoumis, Marco Pistoia, Olivier Lantran, Jaime Gómez García. The Second Quantum Revolution: Opportunities and Threats for the Financial System. G7 Italia 2024 Workshop: Building a Quantum-Safe Financial System: What Role for Authorities and for the Private Sector? Bank of Italy, Rome, Italy, September 2024. Invited Conference Panel.

4. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, a.k.a. IEEE Quantum Week)
   Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Swamit Tannu. Variational Quantum Algorithm Landscape Reconstruction by Low-Rank Tensor Completion.  IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, a.k.a. IEEE Quantum Week) 2024, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, September 2024.

5. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
   Yizhuo Chen, Chun-Fu Chen, Hsiang Hsu, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia, Tarek F. Abdelzaher. MaSS: Multi-attribute Selective Suppression for Utility-Preserving Data Transformation from an Information-Theoretic Perspective. In Proceedings of Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2024, Vienna, Austria, July 2024.

6. ACM SIGDA Design Automation Conference (DAC)
   Zichang He, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Niraj Kumar, Changhao Li, Pierre Minssen, Pradeep Niroula, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia. Invited: Challenges and Opportunities of Quantum Optimization in Finance. Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2024, Article No. 362. San Francisco, CA, USA, June 2024. Invited Special Session Paper.

7. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting
   Marco Pistoia. Revolutionizing the Financial Industry with Quantum Technology. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2024, Abstract: N51.00001. Minneapolis, MN, March 2024. Invited Presentation.

8. IEEE Optical Fiber Communications Conference
   Obada Alia, Albert Huang, Huan Luo, Omar Amer, Marco Pistoia, Charles Lim.  100 Gbps Quantum-safe IPsec VPN Tunnels over 46 km Deployed Fiber.  IEEE Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2024).  San Francisco, CA, March 2024.

9. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
   Georgios Papadopoulos, Yash Satsangi, Shaltiel Eloul, Marco Pistoia. Ranking Distance Metric for Privacy Budget in Distributed Learning of Finite Embedding Data. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14611. Springer, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, March 2024. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_21.

10. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)
    Georgios Papadopoulos, Yash Satsangi, Shaltiel Eloul, Marco Pistoia. Absolute Variation Distance: An Inversion Attack Evaluation Metric for Federated Learning. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14611. Springer, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, March 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-56066-8_20.

11. Quantum Information Processing (QIP)
    Enrico Fontana, Dylan Herman, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Niraj Kumar, Romina Yalovetzky, Jamie Heredge, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Marco Pistoia. The Adjoint Is All You Need: Characterizing Barren Plateaus in Quantum Ansätze. Conference Presentation.  27th Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2024, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2024.

12. International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software (QCS)
    Danylo Lykov, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Yuri Alexeev, Marco Pistoia. Fast Simulation of High-Depth QAOA Circuits. IEEE/ACM Third International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software (QCS) 2023, co-located with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC 2023).  Denver, CO, November 2023.

13. IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, a.k.a. IEEE Quantum Week)
    Marco Pistoia. Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications in the Financial Industry. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, a.k.a. IEEE Quantum Week) 2023, Seattle, WA, September 2023. Invited Keynote Presentation.

14. IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, a.k.a. IEEE Quantum Week)
    Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. QAOA with N⋅p ≥ 200. IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE, a.k.a. IEEE Quantum Week) 2023, Seattle, WA, September 2023.

15. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting
    Marco Pistoia. Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications in the Financial Industry. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2023, Vol. 68, No. 3, Abstract: N51.00001. Las Vegas, NV, March 2023. Invited Presentation.

16. ACM/IEEE Workshop on Quantum Computing
    Kaiyan Shi, Rebekah Herrman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia, Jeffrey Larson. Multi-Angle QAOA Does Not Always Need All Its Angles.  ACM/IEEE Workshop on Quantum Computing, co-located with the 7th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 2022, Bellevue, WA, December 2022.

17. IEEE International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software (QCS)
    Tianyi Hao, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Jeffrey Larson. Exploiting In-Constraint Energy in Constrained Variational Quantum Optimization. In Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software, co-located with the IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2022), Dallas, TX, USA, November 2022.

18. European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)
    Bill Moriarty, Chun-Fu (Richard) Chen, Shaohan Hu, Sean Moran, Marco Pistoia, Vincenzo Piuri, Pierangela Samarati.  Utility-preserving Biometric Information Anonymization.  European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2022.

19. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting
    Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Dylan Herman, Marco Pistoia.  NISQ-HHL: Portfolio Optimization for Near-Term Quantum Hardware.   American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Vol. 67, No. 3, Abstract: K36.00011. Chicago, IL, USA, March 2022.

20. Quantum Information Processing (QIP)
    Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Dylan Herman, Marco Pistoia.  NISQ-HHL: Portfolio Optimization for Near-Term Quantum Hardware.  Conference Poster.  25th Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2022, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, March 2022.

21. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)
    Marco Pistoia, Syed Farhan Ahmad, Akshay Ajagekar, Alexander Buts, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Shaohan Hu, Andrew Jena, Pierre Minssen, Pradeep Niroula, Arthur Rattew, Yue Sun, Romina Yalovetzky.  Quantum Machine Learning for Finance.  In Proceedings of the 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) 2021, Munich, Germany, November 2021. Invited Special Session Paper.

22. IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST)
    Marco Pistoia, Peng Liu, Richard Chen, Shaohan Hu, and Stephen Wood.  Parallelization of Classical Numerical Optimization in Quantum Variational Algorithms.  In Proceedings of the 2020 13th IEEE Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST), Porto, Portugal, October 2020.

23. American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting
    Kanav Setia, James D. Whitfield, Antonio Mezzacapo, Marco Pistoia, Richard Chen.  Exploiting Molecular Point Group Symmetries for Quantum Simulation.  American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting 2020, Vol. 65, No. 1, Abstract: M08.00010. Denver, CO, March 2020.

24. Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
    Quanfu Fan, Chun-Fu (Richard) Chen, Hilde Kuehne, Marco Pistoia, David Cox. More Is Less: Learning Efficient Video Representations by Temporal Aggregation Module. Thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019, Vancouver, Canada, December 2019.

25. ACM SIGDA Design Automation Conference (DAC)
    Shaohan Hu, Dmitri Maslov, Marco Pistoia, Jay M. Gambetta. Efficient Circuits for Quantum Search over 2D Square Lattice Architecture. ACM SIGDA Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2019: 236:1-236:2.

26. ACM/IEEE MOBILESoft
    Luciano Bello, Marco Pistoia.  ARES: triggering payload of evasive Android malware. ACM/IEEE MOBILESoft 2018: 2-12.

27. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)
    Chun-Fu Chen, Jinwook Oh, Quanfu Fan, Marco Pistoia. SC-Conv: Sparse-Complementary Convolution for Efficient Model Utilization on CNNs. IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2018: 97-100, December 2018.

28. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
    Shaohan Hu, Peng Liu, Chun-Fu Chen, Marco Pistoia.  Automatically solving NP-complete problems on a quantum computer.  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2018: 258-259, May 2018.

29. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE)
    Abdulbaki Aydin, David Piorkowski, Omer Tripp, Pietro Ferrara, Marco Pistoia.  Visual Configuration of Mobile Privacy Policies.  International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE) 2017: 338-355.

30. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
    Peng Liu, Xiangyu Zhang, Marco Pistoia, Yunhui Zheng, Manoel Marques, Lingfei Zeng. Automatic text input generation for mobile testing. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2017: 643-653.

31. ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
    Chun-Fu Chen, Marco Pistoia, Conglei Shi, Paolo Girolami, Joseph W. Ligman, Yong Wang. UI X-Ray: Interactive Mobile UI Testing Based on Computer Vision.  ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2017: 245-255.  Best Paper Award.

32. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)
    David Piorkowski, Sean Penney, Austin Z. Henley, Marco Pistoia, Margaret M. Burnett, Omer Tripp, Pietro Ferrara. Foraging goes mobile: Foraging while debugging on mobile devices. IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) 2017: 9-17. Honorable Mention Award.

33. Annual Conference on Computer Security Applications (ACSAC)
    Petar Tsankov, Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp, Martin T. Vechev, Pietro Ferrara. FASE: functionality-aware security enforcement. Annual Conference on Computer Security Applications (ACSAC) 2016: 471-483.

34. ACM/IEEE Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)
    David Lubensky, Marco Pistoia, Ching-Yung Lin, Omer Tripp. Cognitive mobile security. ACM/IEEE MOBILESoft 2016: 267-268. Invited Conference Keynote.

35. ACM/IEEE Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)
    Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Pietro Ferrara, Julia Rubin.  Pinpointing mobile malware using code analysis.  ACM/IEEE MOBILESoft 2016: 275-276.

36. ACM/IEEE Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)
    Joe W. Ligman, Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp, Gegi Thomas.  Improving design validation of mobile application user interface implementation. ACM/IEEE MOBILESoft 2016: 277-278.

37. ACM/IEEE Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft)
    Mauro Baluda, Marco Pistoia, Paul C. Castro, Omer Tripp.  A framework for automatic anomaly detection in mobile applications. ACM/IEEE MOBILESoft 2016: 297-298.

38. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
    Pietro Ferrara, Omer Tripp, and Marco Pistoia. Morphdroid: Fine-grained Privacy Verification.  In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2015), Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 2015.

39. ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
    Marco Pistoia. Program Analysis for Mobile Application Integrity and Privacy Enforcement. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2015: 1698-1699.

40. ACM SIGPLAN Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA)
    Lucas Brutschy, Pietro Ferrara, Omer Tripp, and Marco Pistoia. ShamDroid: Gracefully Degrading Functionality in the Presence of Limited Resource Access.  In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2015), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2015.

41. Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management (CISIM)
    Gianluca Barbon, Agostino Cortesi, Pietro Ferrara, Marco Pistoia, and Omer Tripp. Privacy Analysis of Android Apps: Implicit Flows and Quantitative Analysis.  In Proceedings of the 14th IFIP International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management (CISIM 2015), Warsaw, Poland, September 2015.

42. ACM/IEEE Mobile Development Lifecycle (MobileDeLi 2015)
    Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp, Pietro Ferrara and Paolina Centonze.  Automatic Detection, Correction and Visualization of Security Vulnerabilities in Mobile Apps.  ACM/IEEE Mobile Development Lifecycle (MobileDeLi 2015), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 2015.

43. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
    Roee Hay, Omer Tripp, and Marco Pistoia.  Dynamic Detection of Inter-application Communication Vulnerabilities in Android.  In Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2015), Baltimore, MD, USA, July 2015.

44. European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP)
    Paolina Centonze, Marco Pistoia, and Omer Tripp. Access-rights Analysis in the Presence of Subjects.  In Proceedings of the 29th European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2015), Prague, Czech Republic, July 2015.

45. IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM)
    Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp, Paolina Centonze, and Joseph Ligman.  Labyrinth: Visually Configurable Data-leakage Detection in Mobile Applications.  Invited Paper.  In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2015), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, June 2015.

46. ACM/IEEE Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2015)
    Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, and Paolina Centonze.  Application- and User-sensitive Privacy Enforcement in Mobile Systems.  ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft 2015), Florence, Italy, May 2015.

47. ACM International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI)
    Agostino Cortesi, Pietro Ferrara, Marco Pistoia, and Omer Tripp. Datacentric Semantics for Verification of Privacy Policy Compliance by Mobile Applications.  In Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2015), Mumbai, India, January 2015.

48. ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2014)
    Omer Tripp, Salvatore Guarnieri, Marco Pistoia, and Aleksandr Y. Aravkin. ALETHEIA: Improving the Usability of Static Security Analysis.  In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2014), Scottsdale, AZ, USA, November 2014.

49. Mobile Development Lifecycle (MobileDeLi
    Marco Pistoia and Omer Tripp.  Integrating Security, Analytics and Application Management into the Mobile Development Lifecycle.  In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Development Lifecycle (MobileDeLi 2014), Portland, OR, USA, October 2014.

50. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2014)
    Omer Tripp, Pietro Ferrara, and Marco Pistoia.  Hybrid Security Analysis of Web JavaScript Code via Dynamic Partial Evaluation.  In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2014), San Jose, CA, USA, July 2014.  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.

51. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE)
    Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Patrick Cousot, Radhia Cousot and Salvatore Guarnieri. Andromeda: Accurate and Scalable Security Analysis of Web Applications. In proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2013), held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2013), Rome, Italy, March 2013, pages 210-225.

52. ACM SIGPLAN Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA)
    Manu Sridharan, Shay Artzi, Marco Pistoia, Salvatore Guarnieri, Omer Tripp, and Ryan Berg. Taint Analysis of Framework-based Web Applications. In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA 2011), Portland, OR, USA, October 2011.

53. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
    Takaaki Tateishi, Marco Pistoia, and Omer Tripp.  Path- and Index-sensitive String Analysis Based on Monadic Second-order Logic. In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2011), Toronto, ON, Canada, July 2011.  ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.

54. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
    Salvatore Guarnieri, Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp, Julian Dolby, Stephen Teilhet and Ryan Berg. Saving the World Wide Web from Vulnerable JavaScript. In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2011), Toronto, ON, Canada, July 2011.

55. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM)
    Nikolai Joukov, Vasily Tarasov, Birgit Pfitzmann, Sergej Chicherin, Marco Pistoia, and Takaaki Tateishi. Discovery of Hard-coded External Dependencies in Enterprise Production Environments.  In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011), Dublin, Ireland, May 2011.

56. International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
    Shay Artzi, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip, and Marco Pistoia.  Directed Test Generation for Effective Fault Localization.  In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2010), Trento, Italy, July 2010.

57. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
    Shay Artzi, Julian Dolby, Frank Tip, and Marco Pistoia.  Practical Fault Localization for Dynamic Web Applications.  In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010

58. ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
    Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Manu Sridharan, and Omri Weisman. TAJ: Effective Taint Analysis for Java.  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) 2009), Dublin, Ireland, June 2009.

59. ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS)
    Avraham Shinnar, Marco Pistoia, Anindya Banerjee.  A language for information flow: dynamic tracking in multiple interdependent dimensions.  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2009): 125-131, Dublin, Ireland, June 2009.

60. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
    Emmanuel Geay, Marco Pistoia, Takaaki Tateishi, Barbara Ryder, and Julian Dolby. Modular String-Sensitive Permission Analysis with Demand-Driven Precision.  In Proceedings of the 31st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2009.

61. Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI)
    Marco Pistoia. Program Analysis and Programming Languages for Security.  Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2008). San Francisco, CA, January 2008.

62. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
    Paolina Centonze, Robert J. Flynn, and Marco Pistoia.  Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Automatic Identification of Precise Access-Control Policies. In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2007), Miami Beach, FL, December 2007.

63. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
    Sharon Shoham, Eran Yahav, Stephen J. Fink, and Marco Pistoia. Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), London, United Kingdom, July 2007. ACM Press.  Winner of the following recognitions:

    • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award.

    • IBM Research Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award (3 papers selected out of 130 submissions), IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, July 2008.

    • Invited for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering (TSE) Journal, Volume 34, Issue 5, Piscataway, NJ, USA, September 2008.

    • Invited to be extended into a book chapter included in Mining Software Specifications: Methodologies and Applications.  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Book Series by CRC Press. 2011.

64. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P)
    Marco Pistoia, Anindya Banerjee, and David Naumann. Beyond Stack Inspection: A Unified Access-Control and Information-Flow Security Model. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2007, Oakland, CA, May 2007.

65. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
    Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Robert J. Flynn, and Eran Yahav. When Role Models Have Flaws: Static Validation of Enterprise Security Policies. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.

66. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP)
    Marco Pistoia and Francesco Logozzo. Program Analysis for Security and Privacy. In Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP 2006 Workshop Reader, Final Reports. Twentieth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2006), Nantes, France, July 2006.  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), volume 4379. Springer-Verlag.

67. ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
    Paolina Centonze, Gleb Naumovich, Stephen J. Fink and Marco Pistoia.  Role-Based Access Control Consistency Validation. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2006), Portland, ME, USA, July 2006. ACM Press.

68. ACM SIGSOFT 2006 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA)
    Xiaolan Zhang, Larry Koved, Marco Pistoia, Sam Weber, Trent Jaeger, Guillaume Marceau and Liangzhao Zeng. The Case for Analysis Preserving Language Transformation. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 2006 International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2006), Portland, ME, USA, July 2006. ACM Press.

69. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP)
    Marco Pistoia, Robert J. Flynn, Larry Koved, and Vugranam C. Sreedhar. Interprocedural Analysis for Privileged Code Placement and Tainted Variable Detection. In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2005), pages 362-386, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, July 2005. Springer-Verlag.

70. ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
    Larry Koved, Marco Pistoia, and Aaron Kershenbaum. Access Rights Analysis for Java. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2002), pages 359-372, Seattle, WA, USA, November 2002. ACM Press.

71. World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
    Magda Mourad, Jonathan Munson, Tamer Nadeem, Giovanni Pacifici, Marco Pistoia, and Alaa Youssef. WebGuard: A System for Web Content Protection. In Poster Proceedings of the 10th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 10), Hong Kong, China, May 2001.

Select Refereed Conference Tutorials

1. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
   Marco Pistoia.  Program Analysis for Privacy of Mobile Applications.  Conference Tutorial.  Tutorial Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2015), Los Angeles, CA, USA, December 2015.

2. ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
   Marco Pistoia.  Program Analysis for Mobile Application Integrity.  In Tutorial proceedings of the 22nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2015), Denver, CO, USA, October 2015.

3. Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI)
   Marco Pistoia. Program Analysis and Programming Languages for Security. Invited Conference Tutorial. Tutorial Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2008). San Francisco, CA, January 2008.

4. IEEE INFOCOM
   Marco Pistoia. Java Security. Invited Conference Tutorial. Tutorial Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2002. New York, NY, June 2002.

5. ACM Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA)
   Marco Pistoia. Security in Java 2. Conference Tutorial. Tutorial Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA 2000) Conference. Minneapolis, MN, October 2000. 

Book Chapters

1. Marco Pistoia, Omer Tripp and David Lubensky.   Combining Static Code Analysis and Machine Learning for Automatic Detection of Security Vulnerabilities in Mobile Apps.  Chapter in book: Sougata Mukherjea (Editor), Mobile Application Development, Usability, and Security.  IGI Global, October 2016.

2. Eran Yahav, Sharon Shoham, Stephen Fink and Marco Pistoia.  Static Specification Mining Using Automata-Based Abstractions.  Chapter in book: David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo, Jiawei Han and Chao Liu (Editors), Mining Software Specifications: Methodologies and Applications.  Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Book Series by CRC Press.  March 2011. 

Preprints

1. Javier Lopez-Piqueres, Pranav Deshpande, Archan Ray, Mattia J. Villani, Marco Pistoia, Niraj Kumar. MetaTT: A Global Tensor-Train Adapter for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. arXiv: 2506.09105.

2. Dung Daniel Ngo, Daniel Scott, Saheed Obitayo, Archan Ray, Akshay Seshadri, Niraj Kumar, Vamsi K. Potluru, Marco Pistoia, Manuela Veloso. Adaptive and Robust Watermark for Generative Tabular Data. arxiv:2409.14700.

3. Tyler Chen, Akshay Seshadri, Mattia J. Villani, Pradeep Niroula, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Archan Ray, Pranav Deshpande, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia, Niraj Kumar. A Unified Framework for Provably Efficient Algorithms to Estimate Shapley Values. arXiv:2506.05216.

4. Tyler Chen, Pradeep Niroula, Archan Ray, Pragna Subrahmanya, Marco Pistoia, Niraj Kumar. GPU-Parallelizable Randomized Sketch-and-Precondition for Linear Regression using Sparse Sign Sketches. arXiv:2506.03070.

5. Sami Boulebnane, Abid Khan, Minzhao Liu, Jeffrey Larson, Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Evidence that the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Optimizes the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model Efficiently in the Average Case. arXiv:2505.07929.

6. Yuwei Jin, Zichang He, Tianyi Hao, David Amaro, Swamit Tannu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Iceberg Beyond the Tip: Co-Compilation of a Quantum Error Detection Code and a Quantum Algorithm. arXiv:2504.21172.

7. Aleksandr Berezutskii, Minzhao Liu, Atithi Acharya, Roman Ellerbrock, Johnnie Gray, Reza Haghshenas, Zichang He, Abid Khan, Viacheslav Kuzmin, Dmitry Lyakh, Danylo Lykov, Salvatore Mandrà, Christopher Mansell, Alexey Melnikov, Artem Melnikov, Vladimir Mironov, Dmitry Morozov, Florian Neukart, Alberto Nocera, Michael A. Perlin, Michael Perelshtein, Ruslan Shaydulin, Benjamin Villalonga, Markus Pflitsch, Marco Pistoia, Valerii Vinokur, Yuri Alexeev. Tensor networks for quantum computing. arXiv:2503.08626.

8. Tyler Chen, Archan Ray, Akshay Seshadri, Dylan Herman, Bao Bach, Pranav Deshpande, Abhishek Som, Niraj Kumar, Marco Pistoia. Provably faster randomized and quantum algorithms for k-means clustering via uniform sampling. arXiv:2504.20982.

9. Georgios Papadopoulos, Shaltiel Eloul, Yash Satsangi, Jamie Heredge, Niraj Kumar, Chun-Fu Chen, Marco Pistoia. A Numerical Gradient Inversion Attack in Variational Quantum Neural-Networks. arXiv:2504.12806.

10. Zichang He, David Amaro, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Performance of Quantum Approximate Optimization with Quantum Error Detection. arXiv:2409.12104.

11. Sivaprasad Omanakuttan, Zichang He, Zhiwei Zhang, Tianyi Hao, Arman Babakhani, Sami Boulebnane, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Joseph Sullivan, Michael A. Perlin, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Threshold for Fault-tolerant Quantum Advantage with the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm. arXiv:2504.01897.

12. Anuj Apte, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Sami Boulebnane, Zichang He, Dylan Herman, James Sud, Marco Pistoia. Iterative Interpolation Schedules for Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm. arXiv:2504.01694.

13. Zhiwei Zhang, Jiayu Shen, Niraj Kumar, Marco Pistoia. New Improvements in Solving Large LABS Instances Using Massively Parallelizable Memetic Tabu Search. arXiv:2504.00987.

14. Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Jacob Watkins, Enrico Fontana, Brandon Augustino, Junhyung Lyle Kim, Marco Pistoia. On Speedups for Convex Optimization via Quantum Dynamics. arXiv:2503.24332.

15. Minzhao Liu, Ruslan Shaydulin, Pradeep Niroula, Matthew DeCross, Shih-Han Hung, Wen Yu Kon, Enrique Cervero-Martín, Kaushik Chakraborty, Omar Amer, Scott Aaronson, Atithi Acharya, Yuri Alexeev, K. Jordan Berg, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Florian J. Curchod, Joan M. Dreiling, Neal Erickson, Cameron Foltz, Michael Foss-Feig, David Hayes, Travis S. Humble, Niraj Kumar, Jeffrey Larson, Danylo Lykov, Michael Mills, Steven A. Moses, Brian Neyenhuis, Shaltiel Eloul, Peter Siegfried, James Walker, Charles Lim, Marco Pistoia, Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor. arXiv:2503.20498.

16. Omar Amer, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Kaushik Chakraborty, Shaltiel Eloul, Niraj Kumar, Charles Lim, Minzhao Liu, Pradeep Niroula, Yash Satsangi, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Applications of Certified Randomness. arXiv:2503.19759.

17. Brandon Augustino, Dylan Herman, Enrico Fontana, Junhyung Lyle Kim, Jacob Watkins, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia. Fast Convex Optimization with Quantum Gradient Methods. arXiv:2503.17356.

18. Martin J. A. Schuetz, Romina Yalovetzky, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton, Yue Sun, Rudy Raymond, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Atithi Acharya, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Helmut G. Katzgraber. qReduMIS: A Quantum-Informed Reduction Algorithm for the Maximum Independent Set Problem. arXiv:2503.12551.

19. Sami Boulebnane, James Sud, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Equivalence of Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and Linear-Time Quantum Annealing for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model. arXiv:2503.09563.

20. Zichang He, Rudy Raymond, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Non-Variational Quantum Random Access Optimization with Alternating Operator Ansatz. arXiv:2502.04277.

21. Niraj Kumar, Romina Yalovetzky, Changhao Li, Pierre Minnsen, Marco Pistoia. Des-q: a quantum algorithm to provably speedup retraining of decision trees. arXiv:2309.09976.

22. Martin J. A. Schuetz, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton, Romina Yalovetzky, Rudy Raymond, Yue Sun, Atithi Acharya, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia, Helmut G. Katzgraber. Quantum Compilation Toolkit for Rydberg Atom Arrays with Implications for Problem Hardness and Quantum Speedups. arXiv:2412.14976.

23. Shaltiel Eloul, Yash Satsangi, Yeoh Wei Zhu, Omar Amer, Georgios Papadopoulos, Marco Pistoia. Private, Auditable, and Distributed Ledger for Financial Institutes. arXiv:2501.03808.

24. Kaiyan Shi, Kaushik Chakraborty, Wen Yu Kon, Omar Amer, Marco Pistoia, Charles Lim. On the Relativistic Zero Knowledge Quantum Proofs of Knowledge. arXiv:2409.03635.

25. Gong Zhang, Ignatius William Primaatmaja, Yue Chen, Si Qi Ng, Hong Jie Ng, Marco Pistoia, Xiao Gong, Koon Tong Goh, Chao Wang, Charles Lim. Self-testing quantum randomness expansion on an integrated photonic chip. arXiv:2411.13712.

26. Atithi Acharya, Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Ruslan Shaydulin, Rudy Raymond, Yue Sun, Dylan Herman, Ruben S. Andrist, Grant Salton, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Helmut G. Katzgraber, Marco Pistoia. Decomposition Pipeline for Large-Scale Portfolio Optimization with Applications to Near-Term Quantum Computing. arXiv:2409.10301.

27. Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Guneykan Ozgul, Shuchen Zhu, Brandon Augustino, Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. Generalized Short Path Algorithms: Towards Super-Quadratic Speedup over Markov Chain Search for Combinatorial Optimization. arXiv:2410.23270.

28. Omar Amer, Kaushik Chakraborty, David Cui, Fatih Kaleoglu, Charles Lim, Minzhao Liu, Marco Pistoia. Certified Randomness implies Secure Classical Position-Verification. arXiv:2410.03982.

29. Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Jeffrey Larson, Marco Pistoia. End-to-End Protocol for High-Quality QAOA Parameters with Few Shots. arXiv:2408.00557.

30. Wen Yu Kon, Jefferson Chu, Kevin Han Yong Loh, Obada Alia, Omar Amer, Marco Pistoia, Kaushik Chakraborty, Charles Lim. Quantum Authenticated Key Expansion with Key Recycling. arXiv:2409.16540.

31. Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Dylan Herman, Changhao Li, Rudy Raymond, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Marco Pistoia.  Parameter Setting Heuristics Make the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Suitable for the Early Fault-Tolerant Era.  arXiv:2408.09538.

32. Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Swamit Tannu.  Variational Quantum Algorithm Landscape Reconstruction by Low-Rank Tensor Completion.  arXiv:2405.10941.

33. Yizhuo Chen, Chun-Fu Chen, Hsiang Hsu, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia, Tarek Abdelzaher.  MaSS: Multi-attribute Selective Suppression for Utility-Preserving Data Transformation from an Information-Theoretic Perspective.  arXiv:2405.14981.

34. Romina Yalovetzky, Niraj Kumar, Changhao Li, Marco Pistoia. QC-Forest: a Classical-Quantum Algorithm to Provably Speedup Retraining of Random Forest.  arXiv:2406.12008.

35. Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Dylan Herman, Marco Pistoia. Solving Linear Systems on Quantum Hardware with Hybrid HHL++. arXiv:2110.15958.

36. Matthew DeCross, Reza Haghshenas, Minzhao Liu, Yuri Alexeev, Charles H. Baldwin, John P. Bartolotta, Matthew Bohn, Eli Chertkov, Jonhas Colina, Davide DelVento, Joan M. Dreiling, Cameron Foltz, John P. Gaebler, Thomas M. Gatterman, Christopher N. Gilbreth, Johnnie Gray, Dan Gresh, Nathan Hewitt, Ross B. Hutson, Jacob Johansen, Dominic Lucchetti, Danylo Lykov, Ivaylo S. Madjarov, Karl Mayer, Michael Mills, Pradeep Niroula, Enrico Rinaldi, Peter E. Siegfried, Bruce G. Tiemann, James Walker, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Steven. A. Moses, David Hayes, Brian Neyenhuis, Russell P. Stutz, Michael Foss-Feig.  The Computational Power of Random Quantum Circuits in Arbitrary Geometries. arXiv:2406.02501. 

37. Ruslan Shaydulin, Changhao Li, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Matthew DeCross, Dylan Herman, Niraj Kumar, Jeffrey Larson, Danylo Lykov, Pierre Minssen, Yue Sun, Yuri Alexeev, Joan M. Dreiling, John P. Gaebler, Thomas M. Gatterman, Justin A. Gerber, Kevin Gilmore, Dan Gresh, Nathan Hewitt, Chandler V. Horst, Shaohan Hu, Jacob Johansen, Mitchell Matheny, Tanner Mengle, Michael Mills, Steven A. Moses, Brian Neyenhuis, Peter Siegfried, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia.  Evidence of Scaling Advantage for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm on a Classically Intractable Problem. arXiv:2308.02342.

38. Chun-Fu Chen, Bill Moriarty, Shaohan Hu, Sean Moran, Marco Pistoia, Vincenzo Piuri, Pierangela Samarati.  Model-Agnostic Utility-Preserving Biometric Information Anonymization.  arXiv:2405.15062.

39. Jamie Heredge, Niraj Kumar, Dylan Herman, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Romina Yalovetzky, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Changhao Li, Marco Pistoia. Prospects of Privacy Advantage in Quantum Machine Learning. arXiv:2405.08801.

40. Obada Alia, Albert Huang, Huan Luo, Omar Amer, Marco Pistoia, Charles Lim.  100 Gbps Quantum-safe IPsec VPN Tunnels over 46 km Deployed Fiber.  arXiv:2405.04415.

41. Michael A. Perlin, Ruslan Shaydulin, Benjamin P. Hall, Pierre Minssen, Changhao Li, Kabir Dubey, Rich Rines, Eric R. Anschuetz, Marco Pistoia, Pranav Gokhale. Q-CHOP: Quantum Constrained Hamiltonian Optimization. arXiv:2403.05653.

42. Enrico Fontana, Dylan Herman, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Niraj Kumar, Romina Yalovetzky, Jamie Heredge, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Marco Pistoia.  The Adjoint Is All You Need: Characterizing Barren Plateaus in Quantum Ansätze.  arXiv:2309.07902.

43. Danylo Lykov, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Yuri Alexeev, Marco Pistoia. Fast Simulation of High-Depth QAOA Circuits. arXiv:2309.04841.

44. Changhao Li, Jiayu Shen, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia.  Quantum Counterdiabatic Driving with Local Control.  arXiv:2403.01854.

45. Anupam Prakash, Yue Sun, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Charlie Che, Aditi Dandapani, Dylan Herman, Niraj Kumar, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Ben Wood, Iordanis Kerenidis, Marco Pistoia.  Quantum Option Pricing via the Karhunen-Loève Expansion. arXiv:2402.10132.

46. Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Joao Basso, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Yue Sun, Marco Pistoia.  Parameter Setting in Quantum Approximate Optimization of Weighted Problems.  arXiv:2305.15201.

47. Ruben S. Andrist, Martin J. A. Schuetz, Pierre Minssen, Romina Yalovetzky, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Niraj Kumar, Grant Salton, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Marco Pistoia, Helmut G. Katzgraber.  Hardness of the Maximum Independent Set Problem on Unit-Disk Graphs and Prospects for Quantum Speedups.  arXiv:2307.09442.

48. Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Changhao Li, Yue Sun, Marco Pistoia.  Alignment between Initial State and Mixer Improves QAOA Performance for Constrained Portfolio Optimization.  arXiv:2305.03857.

49. Changhao Li, Niraj Kumar, Zhixin Song, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia.  Privacy-Preserving Quantum Federated Learning via Gradient Hiding.  arXiv:2312.04447.

50. El Amine Cherrat, Snehal Raj, Iordanis Kerenidis, Abhishek Shekhar, Ben Wood, Jon Dee, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Richard Chen, Dylan Herman, Shaohan Hu, Pierre Minssen, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia.  Quantum Deep Hedging. arXiv:2303.16585.

51. Changhao Li, Boning Li, Omar Amer, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Guoqing Wang, Haowei Xu, Hao Tang, Isidor Schoch, Niraj Kumar, Charles Lim, Ju Li, Paola Cappellaro, Marco Pistoia.  Blind Quantum Machine Learning with Quantum Bipartite Correlator. arXiv:2310.12893.

52. Niraj Kumar, Jamie Heredge, Changhao Li, Shaltiel Eloul, Shree Hari Sureshbabu, Marco Pistoia.  Expressive Variational Quantum Circuits Provide Inherent Privacy in Federated Learning.  arXiv:2309.13002.

53. Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia. QAOA with N⋅p ≥ 200.  arXiv:2303.02064.

54. Dylan Herman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Yue Sun, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Shaohan Hu, Pierre Minssen, Arthur Rattew, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia. Constrained Optimization via Quantum Zeno Dynamics. arXiv:2209.15024.

55. Dylan Herman, Cody Googin, Xiaoyuan Liu, Yue Sun, Alexey Galda, Ilya Safro, Marco Pistoia, Yuri Alexeev.  Quantum Computing for Finance.  arXiv:2307.11230.

56. Dylan Herman, Rudy Raymond, Muyuan Li, Nicolas Robles, Antonio Mezzacapo, .Marco Pistoia.  Expressivity of Variational Quantum Machine Learning on the Boolean Cube.  arXiv:2204.05286.

57. Kaiyan Shi, Rebekah Herrman, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia, Jeffrey Larson.  Multi-Angle QAOA Does Not Always Need All Its Angles.  arXiv:2209.11839.

58. Marco Pistoia, Omar Amer, Monik R. Behera, Joseph A. Dolphin, James F. Dynes, Benny John, Paul A. Haigh, Yasushi Kawakura, David H. Kramer, Jeffrey Lyon, Navid Moazzami, Tulasi D. Movva, Antigoni Polychroniadou, Suresh Shetty, Greg Sysak, Farzam Toudeh-Fallah, Sudhir Upadhyay, Robert I. Woodward, Andrew J. Shields.  Paving the Way towards 800 Gbps Quantum-Secured Optical Channel Deployment in Mission-Critical Environments.  arXiv:2202.07764.

59. Lucas Slattery, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Marco Pistoia, Sami Khairy, Stefan M. Wild.  Numerical Evidence against Advantage with Quantum Fidelity Kernels on Classical Data.  arXiv:2211.16551.

60. Tianyi Hao, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Jeffrey Larson.  Exploiting In-Constraint Energy in Constrained Variational Quantum Optimization.  arXiv:2211.07016.

61. Chun-Fu Chen, Shaohan Hu, Zhonghao Shi, Prateek Gulati, Bill Moriarty, Marco Pistoia, Vincenzo Piuri, Pierangela Samarati.  MaSS: Multi-attribute Selective Suppression.  arXiv:2210.09904.

62. Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Pierre Minssen, Romina Yalovetzky, Marco Pistoia.  Universal Quantum Speedup for Branch-and-Bound, Branch-and-Cut, and Tree-Search Algorithms.  arXiv:2210.03210.

63. Pradeep Niroula, Ruslan Shaydulin, Romina Yalovetzky, Pierre Minssen, Dylan Herman, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia.  Constrained Quantum Optimization for Extractive Summarization on a Trapped-ion Quantum Computer.  arXiv:2206.06290.

64. Dylan A. Herman, Cody Googin, Xiaoyuan Liu, Alexey Galda, Ilya Safro, Yue Sun, Marco Pistoia, Yuri Alexeev. A Survey of Quantum Computing for Finance.  arXiv:2201.02773.

65. Arthur Rattew, Yue Sun, Pierre Minssen, Marco Pistoia.  The Efficient Preparation of Normal Distributions in Quantum Registers. arXiv:2009.06601.

66. Marco Pistoia, Syed Farhan Ahmad, Akshay Ajagekar, Alexander Buts, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Dylan Herman, Shaohan Hu, Andrew Jena, Pierre Minssen, Pradeep Niroula, Arthur Rattew, Yue Sun, Romina Yalovetzky. Quantum Machine Learning for Finance.  arXiv:2109.04298.

67. Arthur Rattew, Marco Pistoia. On the Exponential Sample Complexity of the Quantum State Sign Estimation Problem. arxiv:2108.03193.

68. Igor Sokolov, Panagiotis Barkoutsos, Donny Greenberg, Pauline Ollitrault, Julia Rice, Marco Pistoia, Ivano Tavernelli.  Quantum Orbital-Optimized Unitary Coupled Cluster Methods in the Strongly Correlated Regime: Can Quantum Algorithms Outperform Their Classical Equivalents?  arXiv:1911.10864.

69. Pauline J. Ollitrault, Abhinav Kandala, Chun-Fu Chen, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Antonio Mezzacapo, Marco Pistoia, Sarah Sheldon, Stefan Woerner, Jay Gambetta, Ivano Tavernelli. Quantum Equation of Motion for Computing Molecular Excitation Energies on a Noisy Quantum Processor. arXiv:1910.12890.

70. Austin Gilliam, Marco Pistoia, Constantin Gonciulea. Optimizing Quantum Search with a Binomial Version of Grover’s Algorithm. arXiv:2007.10894.

71. Kanav Setia, Richard Chen, Julia E. Rice, Antonio Mezzacapo, Marco Pistoia, James Whitfield. Reducing Qubit Requirements for Quantum Simulation Using Molecular Point Group Symmetries. arXiv:1910.14644.

72. Austin Gilliam, Marco Pistoia, Constantin Gonciulea.  Canonical Construction of Quantum Oracles.  arXiv:2006.10656.

73. Austin Gilliam, Marco Pistoia, Constantin Gonciulea.  Optimizing Quantum Search Using a Generalized Version of Grover's Algorithm.  arXiv:2005.06468.

74. Arthur G. Rattew, Shaohan Hu, Marco Pistoia, Richard Chen, Steve Wood.  A Domain-agnostic, Noise-resistant, Hardware-efficient Evolutionary Variational Quantum Eigensolver.  arXiv:1910.09694.

75. Quanfu Fan, Chun-Fu Chen, Hilde Kuehne, Marco Pistoia, and David Cox.  More Is Less: Learning Efficient Video Representations by Big-Little Network and Depthwise Temporal Aggregation. arXiv:1912.00869.

76. Qi Gao, Hajime Nakamura, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Gavin O. Jones, Julia E. Rice, Stephen P. Wood, Marco Pistoia, Jeannette M. Garcia, Naoki Yamamoto.  Computational Investigations of the Lithium Superoxide Dimer Rearrangement on Noisy Quantum Devices. arXiv:1906.10675.

77. Chun-Fu Chen, Quanfu Fan, Marco Pistoia, and Gwo Giun Lee. Efficient Fusion of Sparse and Complementary Convolutions. arXiv:1808.02167.