Applied Quantum Machine Learning using Qiskit

Dr. Muhammad Faryad

Tier-2 IBM Qiskit Advocate

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The Fastest Way to Go From Classical ML to Quantum ML

No PhD in physics required — just ML fundamentals and Python. In 10 live sessions, you'll build QSVMs and QNNs on real datasets, including leukemia, breast cancer, iris, and Yahoo financial data.

Quantum computing is moving from research labs into industry roadmaps. Companies including IBM, Google, and major financial institutions are investing heavily in quantum technologies, creating demand for ML engineers who can understand, evaluate, and build quantum-enhanced machine learning workflows. After the course, you will be able to:

✅ Encode classical data into quantum circuits

✅ Build Quantum Support Vector Machines on real datasets

✅ Train Quantum Neural Networks for classification tasks

✅ Use quantum kernels and clustering techniques

✅ Solve optimization problems with QAOA

✅ Incorporate quantum noise into ML workflows

✅ Understand training challenges such as barren plateaus

✅ Assess when QML may provide an advantage

If you already understand machine learning and want to become quantum-ready before the field reaches wider adoption, this course provides a structured path from fundamentals to practical implementation. This course assumes no background in physics.

What you’ll learn

You will implement Quantum SVMs, Quantum neural networks, QAOA, Quantum k-means, and hybrid quantum-classical models in Qiskit 2.4.

  • Design quantum kernels, variational quantum classifiers, and optimization workflows.

  • Build quantum k-means clustering, quantum support vector machines, and quantum neural network classifiers in Qiskit 2.4.

  • Transform Max-cut and financial portfolio optimization QUBO-type problems into the QAOA framework

  • Learn basis, angle, Hamiltonian, and amplitude encoding schemes to select the appropriate strategy for a given problem.

  • Analyze circuit depth and complexity tradeoffs and understand how feature maps shape models' inductive bias.

  • Implement techniques for high-dimensional data by using re-uploading layers with Z, ZZ, Pauli, Efficient SU2, and other techniques.

  • Write, debug, and optimize quantum codes using Qiskit, Qiskit_IBM_Runtime, and Qiskit_Aer for IBM quantum hardware and simulators.

  • Build hybrid classical–quantum pipelines by integrating quantum models with PyTorch, Tensorflow, and Pandas.

  • Include quantum noise processes in the ML pipeline to mimic and take advantage of quantum noise in prediction

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Dr. Muhammad Faryad

Dr. Muhammad Faryad

Quantum Machine Learning Scientist

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Who this course is for

  • AI/ML Engineers & Researchers — Who want to implement, benchmark, and evaluate quantum ML models with theoretical depth and practical codes.

  • Computational Scientists — Who want to expand their computational tools to include practical quantum computing routines for data analysis.

  • Tech Leads — Who want to develop insights for quantum ML use-cases, hardware limits, and quantum-ready workforce.

Prerequisites

  • Classical Machine Learning Concepts

    This course assumes knowledge and fluency with basic classical ML concepts, including neural networks, supervised and unsupervised ML.

  • Working Knowledge of Numpy, Sklearn, Pandas

    Students with prior experience in ML programming and familiar with Python tools will find the course most useful.

  • Familiarity with Matrices

    Working experience with matrices is required. Exposure to linear algebra before the course will help you dig deeper.

What's included

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Live sessions

Learn directly from Dr. Muhammad Faryad in a real-time, interactive format.

Video Recordings

All live sessions will be recorded and made available to students right after each session.

End-to-end code files

All code files used during the live sessions will be delivered to students before showing end-to-end model building for real datasets.

Lecture slides

All lecture slides used during live sessions will be provided to students before each session.

Dedicated Q/A sessions

Live questions/answers sessions and discussion on QML and converting your ML projects to QML projects

Solved Assignments

Theory/coding problems with solutions

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Course syllabus

10 live sessions • 38 lessons

Week 1

Jul 14—Jul 19

    Jul

    14

    Lesson 1. Quantum states & gates, Bra-Ket language, Hilbert spaces, and Intro to Qiskit 2.4

    Tue 7/143:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

    Jul

    16

    Lesson 2. Superposition, Interference, & entanlgement generation, and Qiskit SamplerV2 Primitive

    Thu 7/163:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

    Slides

    2 items

    Jupter Notebooks

    2 items

    Practice Assignment with Solutions

    3 items

    Quantum Algorithms Notes

    1 item

    Accessing IBM Hardware

    1 item

Week 2

Jul 20—Jul 26

    Jul

    21

    Lesson 3. Measurements, observables, expectation values, and Qiskit EstimatorV2 Primitive

    Tue 7/213:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

    Jul

    22

    Lesson 4. Transition from ML to Quantum ML models

    Wed 7/223:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

    Jul

    23

    Lesson 5. Data encoding and Quantum feature maps

    Thu 7/233:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

    Slides

    3 items

    Jupyter Notebooks

    6 items

Free resources

Schedule

Live sessions

3-4 hrs / week

See the syllabus for the detailed schedule.

    • Tue, Jul 14

      3:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

    • Thu, Jul 16

      3:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Jul 21

      3:00 PM—4:15 PM (UTC)

Playing with Qiskit code files

2-3 hrs / week

You will get the most out of the course if you spend time playing with the Qiskit code files explained during the live lessons.

Reviewing lesson slides

1-2 hrs / week

You should spend time reviewing the lesson slides before and after each live session since the slides have a rigorous treatment of QML theory.

Who has taken this course so far?

1. Lecturer, Northern Border University, Saudi Arabia

2. Research Assistant, Binghamton University, New York, USA

3. AVP Retail & Projects, Valiram Group, Malaysia

4. PhD Student, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada

5. Software Engineer, Innovate for Consulting and Technology, Cairo, Egypt

6. Student, IISERM, Mohali, India

7. QC coordinator, Amerisci, New York, USA

8. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Chewy, Florida, USA

9. Student, Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, México

10. Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques, Bénin

11. Actuary, Sompo Insurance, México

12. Associate Professors, LUMS, QAU, Pakistan

13. Student, LUMS, Pakistan

14. Freelance Software Developers, UK, France

15. Post Doc, Saint Louis University, USA

16. Student, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey

17. Lecturer, Aston University, UK

18. Faculty, University Ibn Zohr, Morocco

19. Founder, Quantum Computing Company, USA

20. Research Assistant, Quantum Computing Company, South Korea

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