The National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) has awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Office of Research to conduct research on the theoretical foundations of quantum pseudorandomness. The 3-year project aims to systematically develop the theoretical underpinnings of quantum pseudorandomness and explore its applications, including areas such as...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, operating as Columbia University, to conduct research on the theoretical foundations of quantum pseudorandomness. The 3-year project aims to systematically develop the theoretical underpinnings of quantum pseudorandomness and explore its applications in areas such as quantum cryptography,...
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 $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support research at The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027. The goal of the project is to develop innovative computational methods that integrate classical and quantum algorithmic tools within the fields of statistics and operations research. The research will focus on applications...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $600,000 Project Grant under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Office of Research Administration. The grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, will fund a research project to investigate post-quantum multivariate cryptography and develop novel quantum algorithms and public-key cryptosystems resistant to quantum computing capabilities. Key objectives...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $236,459 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The 5-year grant, running from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030, aims to develop a novel "Quantum Pulse Processing" framework to enhance the capabilities of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices and enable more efficient quantum simulations. Key research directions include...
This federal Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) is focused on enabling the development of a distributed quantum network infrastructure. The key objectives are to: (i) develop new algorithms and protocols for efficient and fair sharing of the quantum network among users, and (ii) devise strategies to protect the network against environmental noise and loss. The research aims...
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 $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 $200,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of South Florida (USF) to conduct research on the development of new cryptographic primitives for post-quantum cryptography. The project aims to construct novel cryptographic schemes based on rank metric codes derived from Drinfeld modules, as well as explore new variants of the Hamming metric for code-based cryptography. This research...