Project Grant 2339116
- This federal Project Grant award of $263,170 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a performance period from January 15, 2025 to December 31, 2029, aims to advance quantum security and cryptography. The project's key objectives are to construct new forms of quantum pseudorandomness, which can hide the quantum mechanical properties of physical systems, such as their entanglement. This research is expected to...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports a collaborative research effort to characterize the quantum information science and engineering (QISE) workforce and academic landscape in the United States. The $369,722 award to the Regents of the University of Colorado will fund three main activities over a period of three years: (1) a study analyzing the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for QISE...
- This $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to investigate methods for efficiently creating entanglement between multiple qubits for quantum computing. The project aims to develop new multi-qubit entangling gates that can reduce the complexity of quantum circuits and expand the practical applications of current quantum hardware, which is...
- This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will fund research at Rice University to advance quantum information processing through investigating minimum quantum circuit size problems. Over a two-year period ending in September 2024, the university researchers will develop a framework for studying minimum circuit size problems on classical and quantum objects. They will explore problems related to...
- This Project Grant award of $477,555 was awarded on April 1, 2026, by the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070). The five-year research initiative, titled "CAREER: SQALE: Scalable Quantum Architectures with LDPC Error-Correction," is being conducted by the University of Arizona and will conclude on March 31, 2031. The project addresses critical challenges in...
- This $350,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CFDA 47.070) supports research by the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) to develop analog quantum algorithms for studying the non-Markovian dynamics of multi-qubit systems. The research aims to advance the capabilities for modeling open quantum systems, which is critical for harnessing the potential of quantum information processing. Key technical objectives...
- This Project Grant award for $236,459 was made by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) on July 1, 2025. The award supports the "CAREER: QUANTUM PULSE PROCESSING--ROBUST AND PROGRAMMABLE QUANTUM CONTROL FOR NEAR-TERM QUANTUM SIMULATION" research project, which aims to overcome the challenges of current noisy-intermediate scale quantum (NISQ) devices by improving...
- 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 $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 $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...
CAREER: COMPLEXITY THEORY OF QUANTUM STATES: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR CHARACTERIZING QUANTUM COMPUTER SCIENCE -QUANTUM COMPUTING CAN HELP SOLVE SOME OF THE MOST COMPLEX PROBLEMS IN PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, MATERIAL DESIGN, OPTIMIZATION, AND MACHINE LEARNING. QUANTUM COMPLEXITY THEORY PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN GUIDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF QUANTUM COMPUTING. NOWADAYS, THE STUDY OF QUANTUM COMPUTING AND QUANTUM PHYSICS LEADS TO MANY NEW COMPUTATIONAL TASKS FOR DEALING WITH QUANTUM INFORMATION. THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK IN STANDARD COMPLEXITY THEORY MIGHT BE INSUFFICIENT TO GUIDE THE INVESTIGATION OF THESE NEW PROBLEMS. THIS AWARD WILL PROVIDE A NOVEL THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK TO STEER THE DEVELOPMENT OF FAST QUANTUM ALGORITHMS FOR VARIOUS NEW PROBLEMS IN QUANTUM PHYSICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, AND CONSTRUCT MORE SECURE QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY. BEYOND TECHNOLOGY, THE AWARD WILL SUPPORT THE (I) DEVELOPMENT OF NEW QUANTUM COMPUTING COURSES FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS THAT WILL BE SHARED WITH NEARBY HISPANIC-SERVING INSTITUTIONS IN HOUSTON, (II) MENTORING OF STUDENTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS THROUGH THE RESEARCH EMERGING SCHOLARS PROGRAM AND THE QUANTUM RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES PROGRAM, AND (III) INSTITUTION OF A HYBRID QUANTUM COMPUTING SEMINAR TO DEEPEN THE ENGAGEMENT WITH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS IN THE QUANTUM COMPUTING COMMUNITY. QUANTUM COMPUTING INTRODUCES MANY WELL-MOTIVATED COMPUTATIONAL TASKS THAT ASK TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC PROPERTIES OF INPUT QUANTUM STATES. FOR EXAMPLE, STATE TOMOGRAPHY ASKS TO LEARN THE CLASSICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE INPUT QUANTUM STATES, AND THE SECURITY OF QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY RELIES ON THE HARDNESS OF EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM QUANTUM MESSAGES. HOWEVER, THE STANDARD COMPLEXITY THEORY FOR PROBLEMS WITH CLASSICAL INPUTS AND OUTPUTS IS INADEQUATE FOR IDENTIFYING THE COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY OF THESE NEW COMPUTATIONAL TASKS. THEREFORE, THIS AWARD SEEKS TO ADVANCE THE FOLLOWING THREE THRUSTS: (I) DEVELOP THE COMPLEXITY THEORY FOR PROBLEMS THAT ASK TO IDENTIFY SPECIFIC PROPERTIES OF INPUT QUANTUM STATES, (II) IDENTIFY THE SECURITY OF QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES THROUGH THE NEW COMPLEXITY THEORY, AND (III) USE THE FRAMEWORK TO CHARACTERIZE THE COMPUTATIONAL HARDNESS OF VARIANTS OF PROBLEMS WITH QUANTUM INPUTS. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $154.4k | 8/5/25 | ||
| Not listed | $158.2k | 4/22/25 | ||
| Not listed | $154.3k | 1/31/24 |