The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $400,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research related to quantum computing with cesium atoms in a three-dimensional optical lattice from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. This award falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these fields and strengthen the national scientific enterprise. Specifically, the university will use the funding to...
This $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at The Pennsylvania State University from February 2022 to January 2025. The university will identify vulnerabilities and develop defenses for securing large-scale noisy-intermediate scale quantum computing. Specifically, the grant will support identifying assets, vulnerabilities, security threats, and potential for intellectual property theft in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $166,508 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania. The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, supports a 5-year research project titled "CAREER: EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE QUANTUM PROGRAM OPTIMIZATION IN THE HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SPACE." The project aims to develop novel...
This $236,727 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports theoretical and computational research on quantum phases of matter. The awardee, The Pennsylvania State University, will conduct numerical simulations and develop new computational algorithms to study magnetism and strongly correlated electron systems. Additional projects include investigating quantum phase transitions in two-dimensional spin models and quantum...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $395,391 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences to support research titled "OPTIMAL CONTROL OF OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. Under this award made through the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), Penn State researchers will conduct work to advance understanding of major problems confronting the nation through increased knowledge of...
The Pennsylvania State University was awarded a $215,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Graduate Education. The grant supports the development of a new curriculum titled "SATC: EDU: A Curriculum for Quantum Security and Trust" from June 15, 2021 to May 31, 2023. The funding advances the goals of the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) by supporting the creation of an innovative curriculum focused on quantum security and trust. The new course...
The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, was awarded a $599,096 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award, effective June 1, 2024, will fund research towards "Efficient Adaptive Federated Learning: Algorithms, Theories, and Applications." The project aims to (1) improve the communication efficiency of adaptive federated learning...
This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,000 to establish a quantum computing training program focused on power system engineering challenges. The primary objectives are to: 1) Create a project-based training program that synthesizes power engineering and quantum computing knowledge, 2) Offer trainees hands-on experience and practical application in power system-oriented quantum...
This $275,000 NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) project grant to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, supports theoretical research and educational activities focused on understanding quantum phenomena in condensed matter systems. The key products and services to be delivered include: Exploring novel quantum critical phenomena and gapless phases in many-body quantum systems, going beyond traditional Landau symmetry-breaking paradigms. This...
This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070 "Computer and Information Science and Engineering") to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) will support the development of an integrated framework for optimally controlling open quantum systems. The project aims to establish a comprehensive mathematical model to characterize the dynamics of quantum systems interacting with their...
The Pennsylvania State University received a $1,200,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support the development of quantum machine learning models to advance drug discovery using quantum computing. Key products and services include the creation of DrugVAE, a quantum variational autoencoder to search for novel lead chemical compounds, and QDock, a quantum docking engine to validate identified ligands. The researchers will optimize workflows for distributed computing, map quantum machine learning workloads to target quantum computers, and computationally and experimentally validate compounds identified via the new quantum models. Additionally, the award will further quantum computing education through K-12 teacher training materials and new undergraduate coursework at Penn State. The four-year project period began October 1, 2022 and aims to accelerate drug discovery through leveraging emerging quantum computing capabilities.