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...
This Project Grant award, valued at $266,516 and granted by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to develop scalable and resilient quantum computer architectures through synergistic hardware-software co-design. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) Co-design the instruction set architecture and runtime to enable efficient and resilient quantum computing architectures, and introduce new...
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 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 $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...
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 $499,991 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of a comprehensive curriculum, training projects, and educational activities focused on establishing an advanced and secure quantum cyberinfrastructure (QCI) workforce. The key deliverables include: (1) a modularized QCI curriculum covering basics, algorithms, hardware, and software; (2) specialized training...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, will provide $600,000 to the University of California, Merced to develop a usable and attack-resistant security framework for quantum emulators. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Characterizing the effect of cyberattacks on quantum Ising models used in quantum emulation to understand how induced noise and...
This $219,933 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a period of performance from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2028, is for the development of "QUAIM: A Quantum Cyberinfrastructure with Automated Implementation Toolkits for Scientific Discovery." The project aims to create an open-source toolkit to enable domain scientists to leverage the power of quantum computing for complex...
This four-year, $1.8 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a quantum circuit compiler. The goals of the project are to automatically generate optimized mappings of quantum programs to physical quantum computing systems through the use of synthesis frameworks. This will include the automatic discovery and verification of circuit...