This Project Grant award, valued at $600,000.00 and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports research to develop practical finite-length quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes and novel anisotropic iterative decoders. The goal is to create QLDPC codes with minimized trapping sets and decoders that can achieve near-optimal error correction performance without the latency typically...
This $200,000 National Science Foundation project grant will support research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop foundational theories for quantum-secure cryptography and train students in a quantum perspective on the field. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the three-year award period runs from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025. Key research areas include security of symmetric-key primitives against quantum attackers,...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to support the development of a verifiable quantum compiler that integrates formal methods to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. The $500,000 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, will fund research to optimize the translation of quantum algorithms into fault-tolerant...
This National Science Foundation award provides $359,999 to the University of Maryland, College Park through September 2022 to August 2025 to support research toward universal quantum computing with integrated quantum optical frequency combs. The award is part of the NSF Engineering Directorate's $47.041 million program to foster innovation in engineering research. Specifically, the university will work to demonstrate generation of continuous variable cluster states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill...
This $248,756 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to design secure quantum computing systems. The project focuses on studying security vulnerabilities and developing remediation techniques for both hardware-specific and agnostic side-channel attacks on existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers and upcoming fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. The...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to strengthen both mathematics and quantum information science (QIS). This 5-year project will train mathematicians to enter the world of quantum research through a holistic curriculum guiding them from learning quantum principles to applying sophisticated mathematical...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, will provide $263,170 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to advance quantum security and computational capabilities. The project aims to construct new forms of quantum pseudorandomness that can hide certain quantum mechanical properties, such as entanglement. This research may enable new types of post-quantum cryptography and testing methods...
This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at the University of Southern California (USC) on developing fault-tolerant quantum computing and communication methods. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year award include: Decoding quantum error-correcting codes to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing on near-term quantum hardware. This involves developing...
This Project Grant award of $309,033 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to advance quantum computing software optimization techniques. The project will develop novel programming languages, compilation algorithms, and testing tools to enable more effective and efficient large-scale quantum program optimizations across diverse quantum hardware platforms, beyond traditional qubit-based systems. Key objectives include...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program Project Grant award, with Federal Grant ID 2442410 and CFDA Number 47.070, provides $243,726 in funding to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign over a 5-year period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2030. The key objectives of this award are to study the behavior of multipartite quantum correlations under the influence of environmental noise through the lens of symmetries, and to...