Bruno Gabriel Coelho Coutinho

Bruno Coutinho

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	01-10-2016
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Group:	Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
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Tel: +351 21 841 84 54

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9980-1857

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10-10-2025

First secure quantum time transfer in Portugal under the EuroQCI/PTQCI project

Portugal has achieved a historic milestone in the field of quantum communication by successfully carrying out, for the first time, a secure quantum time transfer within the national territory.

27-02-2023

What's next for Quantum Information and Technologies? - By Paulo André

The endeavor for the field of quantum information and technologies is to harness the unique properties of quantum mechanics to create new technology and devices, which can perform tasks that are not possible with classical systems.

21-12-2021

New approach for connections prediction in complex networks distinguished at the Science4Cast competition 2021

IT researchers of the Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies group won one of the Special Prizes in the Science4Cast Competition.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Northeastern University, 01-08-2016

Academic Activities

4Supervision of MSc theses

Publications

16Papers in Journals

D. Cruz, F. A. Monteiro, A. R. Roque, B. Coutinho, Fault-Tolerant Noise Guessing Decoding of Quantum Random Codes, IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, Vol. 6, No., pp. 1 - 26, September, 2025,
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A. R. Roque, D. Cruz, F. A. Monteiro, B. Coutinho, Efficient entanglement purification based on noise guessing decoding, Quantum, Vol. 8, No. NA, pp. 1476 - 1500, September, 2024,
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J. M. Moutinho, D. Magano, B. Coutinho, On the complexity of quantum link prediction in complex networks, Scientific Reports, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. -, January, 2024 | BibTex
M. Krenn, L. Buffoni, B. Coutinho, S. Eppel, JGF Foster, A. Gritsevskiy, H. Lee, Y. Lu, J. M. Moutinho, N. S. Sanjabi, R. Sonthalia, N. Tran, . Valente, Y. X. Xie, R. Yu, M. Kopp, Forecasting the future of artificial intelligence with machine learning-based link prediction in an exponentially growing knowledge network, nature machine intelligence, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1326 - 14, October, 2023,
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D. Cruz, F. A. Monteiro, B. Coutinho, Quantum Error Correction Via Noise Guessing Decoding, IEEE Access, Vol. 11, No., pp. 119446 - 119461, October, 2023,
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D. Magano, J. M. Moutinho, B. Coutinho, On the quantum simulation of complex networks, SciPost Physics Core, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 58 - 82, August, 2023,
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J. M. Moutinho, A.M. Melo, B. Coutinho, I.A.K. A. Kovács, Y. Omar, Quantum link prediction in complex networks, Physical Review A, Vol. 107, No. 3, pp. 032605 - 032617, March, 2023 | BibTex
L. Bugalho, F. A. Monteiro, B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Distributing Multipartite Entanglement over Noisy Quantum Networks, Quantum, Vol. 7, No. NA, pp. 920 - 944, February, 2023,
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S. Santos, F. A. Monteiro, B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Shortest Path Finding in Quantum Networks With Quasi-linear Complexity, IEEE Access, Vol. 11, No. -, pp. 7180 - 7194, January, 2023,
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B. Coutinho, W. M. Munro, K. N. Nemoto, Y. Omar, Robustness of noisy quantum networks, Communications Physics, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 1 - 9, April, 2022,
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B. Coutinho, A.-K. Wu, H. Hai-Jun, Y.-Y. L. Liu, Covering Problems and Core Percolations on Hypergraphs, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 124, No. 24, pp. 248301 - 248306, June, 2020,
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A.-K. Wu, L. T. Tian, B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Y.-Y. L. Liu, Structural vulnerability of quantum networks, Physical Review A, Vol. 101, No. 5, pp. 052315-1 - 052315-9, May, 2020 | BibTex
T.O. Osada, B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, K. S. Sanaka, W. M. Munro, K. N. Nemoto, Continuous-time quantum-walk spatial search on the Bollobás scale-free network, Physical Review A, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 022310 - 022318, February, 2020,
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S. Hong, B. Coutinho, A.D. Dey, A.B. Barabási, M.V. Vogelsberger, L.H. Hernquist,, K.G. Gebhardt, Discriminating topology in galaxy distributions using network analysis, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 459, No. 3, pp. 2690 - 2700, April, 2016 | BibTex
R.D. Dias, A. Marques, B. Coutinho, L. P. Martins, Chiral classical states in a rhombus and a rhombi chain of Josephson junctions with two-band superconducting elements, Physical Review B, Vol. 89, No. 13, pp. 134513 - 134513, April, 2014 | BibTex
B. Coutinho, A.G. Goltsev, S. D. Dorogovtsev, J.F.M. Mendes, Kuramoto model with frequency-degree correlations on complex networks, Physical Review E, Vol. 87, No. 3José Fernando Mendes, pp. 032106 - 032106, March, 2013 | BibTex

2Papers in Conferences

Ó. Ferraz, B. Coutinho, G. Falcão, M. Gomes, F. A. Monteiro, V. Silva, GPU-Accelerated Syndrome Decoding for Quantum LDPC Codes below the 63 μs Latency Threshold, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Monterey, United States, October, 2025 | BibTex
J. M. Moutinho, B. Coutinho, L. Buffoni, Network-based link prediction of scientific concepts – a Science4Cast competition entry, Ieee - International Conference on Big Data, Florida, United States, Vol., pp. 5815 - 5819, December, 2021,
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5Non-refereed Publications

L. Bugalho, B. Coutinho, F. M. Monteiro, Y. Omar, Distributing Multipartite Entanglement over Noisy Quantum Networks, 2021,
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J.P.M P.Moutinho, B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, A.M. Melo, I.A.K. A. Kovács, Quantum Link Prediction in Complex Networks, P-0009-LX-19, 2021,
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D. M, J.P.M P.Moutinho, B. Coutinho, On the quantum simulation of complex networks, 2022,
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J.P.M P.Moutinho, D. M, B. Coutinho, On the complexity of quantum link prediction in complex networks, 2022,
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M. Krenn, L3 B, B. Coutinho, et. al., Predicting the Future of AI with AI: High-quality link prediction in an exponentially growing knowledge network, 2022,
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Projects

Currently running projects1

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
ComSense	Inovação em Sensores e Comunicações para a Sociedade	Portugal 2030	01-10-2024	01-09-2027

Closed Projects2

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
QIA	QIA – Quantum Internet Alliance	EU/H2020	01-10-2018	30-09-2021
QuNetMed	Quantum Algorithms for Network Medicine	FCT	01-01-2023	30-06-2024

Other Scientific Achievements

2Miscellaneous

B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Complex Networks in the context of Quantum Systems, Invited Talks, , 01-05-2017
B. Coutinho, Y. Omar, Routing on a entanglement distribution complex network, Seminars, , 01-01-2017

Other Contributions

1Conference Committees

Complex Quantum Networks, Organizing Committee, 2019

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