Project Grant 2615830
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Massachusetts $317,680 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for collaborative research on quantum-enabled next-generation networks. The award funds development of a hybrid free-space and optical fiber quantum network architecture featuring a satellite backbone that distributes entanglement to terrestrial regional stations and...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded $300,000 to the University of California, Merced on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop an end-to-end framework for securing quantum computing workflows. The project investigates confidentiality and integrity assurance across quantum computing compilation and execution stages. At the compilation stage, the research examines how untrusted...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded University of California, San Diego $600,000 on July 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a heterogeneous system approach toward early fault-tolerant quantum computing. The project addresses quantum error correction, the central obstacle to building practical quantum computers. Current protection strategies apply uniform error correction across...
- Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Massachusetts received a $540,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2028. This award funds development of a comprehensive full-stack framework for designing and optimizing control policies for distributed quantum systems. The primary deliverables...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Texas at Austin $412,008 on September 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures and compilers. The award funds research organized into three thrusts. The first focuses on building automated and optimized program compilation methods, including application-specific instructions,...
- This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build an advanced quantum computing laboratory. The laboratory will create and fault-tolerantly measure many-body quantum states, with the goal of demonstrating practical quantum advantages for problems in chemistry, materials, and physics. The project will make significant advances in atomic...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Washington $559,520 on September 15, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop computational complexity theory for many-body quantum entanglement. The award funds research that formulates and proves lower bounds on the description complexity of many-body quantum states arising from local Hamiltonians, focusing on the resources...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded Rutgers, The State University $599,878 on June 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to develop a scalable, modular, open-source quantum compiler that performs co-optimization across logical circuits, physical circuits, hardware mapping, resource management, and error mitigation. The project, titled "Toward Scalable Quantum Circuit Optimization with...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded the University of Massachusetts $750,000 on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for research on scalable modular fault-tolerant quantum hardware using Pauli-based computing. The project, running through August 31, 2029, and performed in Amherst, Massachusetts, develops design principles and tools for connecting multiple smaller quantum devices into a single reliable quantum computer. Work is organized around three technical thrusts. Thrust A builds the entanglement supply chain, including Bell pair generation, purification, buffering, Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state preparation, and code adapters for cross-module measurements. Thrust B develops compilation methods that convert quantum algorithms into measurement graphs, schedules, and entanglement demand profiles while optimizing logical error rate, latency, and network resource use. Thrust C creates dynamic code resizing protocols, enabling code distance to grow or shrink during execution as reliability needs change. Deliverables include a code-adapter library, compiler prototype, grow and shrink protocols, and benchmark suites. The project will produce design targets for hardware teams specifying required entanglement quality, generation rates, memory lifetimes, and timing constraints. Broader impacts encompass foundational advances in quantum technologies, public software, and workforce training.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $750.0k | 7/29/26 |