Federal Project Grant Award Summary

Rutgers, The State University received a $599,878 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) effective June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2029. The award supports the development of a scalable, modular, open-source quantum compiler designed to optimize quantum circuits across logical and physical layers, hardware mapping, resource management, and error mitigation. The compiler centers on four structured circuit forms—phase polynomials, phase gadgets, symbolic Pauli gates, and linear reversible circuits—and integrates optimization with routing and device constraints for superconducting, trapped-ion, and neutral-atom quantum hardware platforms.

The project delivers cross-stack compiler infrastructure incorporating new intermediate representations for circuit structure optimization, artificial intelligence-assisted methods including reinforcement learning and diffusion-style generative models, and heuristic search techniques to guide synthesis and reliability-aware optimization. This deliverable addresses a critical gap in quantum computing accessibility by translating theoretical quantum algorithms into practical, hardware-compatible instructions that can run on real quantum machines, thereby broadening quantum computing adoption beyond specialized physics and computer science communities and supporting U.S. leadership in quantum technology development.