This $380,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports the development of the QUAIM toolkit, which aims to enable scientific domain experts to seamlessly leverage the power of quantum computing. The project at George Mason University focuses on creating automated software tools to facilitate the use of quantum computers for scientific discovery in areas like computational chemistry, material science,...
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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $1,149,999 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Federal Grant Program to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst. This 3-year grant, effective July 1, 2024, will fund the development of an open-source ecosystem of modeling tools for quantum hardware. The project aims to democratize access to quantum technology by creating user-friendly tools that allow researchers to model quantum systems...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a total funding of $471,864, will support the development of an integrated framework to revolutionize quantum computing education. The key products and services to be delivered include: A modular quantum training platform that integrates a tiered curriculum, progressing from foundational quantum principles to system and application development, coupled with...
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 $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund collaborative research to develop scalable quantum computing systems. The project aims to interconnect multiple quantum processing units (QPUs) with limited qubit capacity into a scalable "virtual quantum machine" (VQM) with far greater qubit capabilities. The research will investigate fundamental qubit entanglement and...
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 (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $784,535 to a collaborative research project led by Georgia Tech Research Corporation, in partnership with the University of Georgia, Virginia Tech, and the University of Memphis. The project aims to develop a software framework to make it easier to implement advanced quantum chemistry methods on emerging hardware. The team...
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 $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) to Kent State University aims to enable temporal-reliable quantum learning on NISQ-era devices. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a novel compression-based error adaptor to adjust the parameters and structure of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) based on fluctuating quantum noise,...