Valter Uotila
Valter Uotila

Postdoctoral researcher at QuTech (he/him)

TU Delft

About Me

I’m a postdoctoral researcher at QuTech in Wehner’s group, where I focus on quantum internet applications. I completed my PhD in computer science at the University of Helsinki in 2026, having previously earned both a BSc and an MSc in mathematics there.

Experience

  1. Postdoctoral researcher

    TU Delft

  2. Visiting doctoral researcher

    Aalto University

  3. Doctoral researcher

    University of Helsinki

  4. Research assistant

    University of Helsinki

Education

  1. PhD in Computer Science

    University of Helsinki
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  2. MSc in Mathematics

    University of Helsinki
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  3. BSc in Mathematics

    University of Helsinki
Publications
Cong Yu, Tuo Shi, Valter Uotila, Shilong Deng, Lei You, Bo Zhao (2026). Vista: Verifier-in-the-Loop Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Program Synthesis. In ACM AI and Agentic Systems 2026.
Cite DOI ACM Digital Library
Valter Uotila, Väinö Mehtola, Ilmo Salmenperä, Bo Zhao (2026). Twirlator: Pipeline for Analyzing Subgroup Symmetry Effects in Quantum Machine Learning Ansatzes. In Q-SE 2026.
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Valter Uotila, Cong Yu, Bo Zhao (2025). ZX-DB: A Graph Database for Quantum Circuit Simplification and Rewriting via the ZX-Calculus.
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Valter Uotila (2025). Left-Deep Join Order Selection with Higher-Order Unconstrained Binary Optimization on Quantum Computers. In Frontiers in Computer Science 2025.
PDF Cite Code DOI Frontiers in Computer Science arXiv (preprint version)
Cong Yu, Valter Uotila, Shilong Deng, Qingyuan Wu, Tuo Shi, Songlin Jiang, Lei You, Bo Zhao (2025). QUASAR: Quantum Assembly Code Generation Using Tool-Augmented LLMs via Agentic RL.
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