Project Grant W911NF0910569

The National Science Foundation awarded Purdue University a $1,200,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "Learning from Classical and Quantum Data: A Fourier Perspective" from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2026. The award will fund research investigating implications of advances in quantum machine learning (QML) for conventional machine learning models, with the goal of enhancing efficiency and...

This three-year $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support theoretical computer science research and education at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The principal investigator will conduct research on representations of computational objects by real polynomials, with a focus on pointwise approximation techniques. This includes tackling open problems in the pointwise...

This $794,738 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research into highly nonlinear and pseudorandom structures for communications and sensing at The University Corporation from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The awardee will investigate sequences, Boolean functions, and related mathematical structures that are significant for information theory and have applications in communications networks, remote...

This two-year, $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant funds research at Washington University in City, Missouri to develop a quantum tunneling-based framework for zero side-channel key generation and distribution. The Engineering Directorate program seeks to advance engineering innovation and excellence. Specifically, the university researchers will investigate using an array of self-powered, phase-locked timers that operate via Fowler-Nordheim quantum tunneling to emulate...

The National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems awarded a $245,000 Project Grant to The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SECURE AND EFFICIENT POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY: FROM CODING THEORY TO HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE." The three-year grant running from May 2021 through April 2024 will fund research exploring post-quantum cryptography approaches from coding theory to hardware...

This $550,000 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), will support research at the University of Colorado to develop robust quantum processors using superconducting Fourier qubits. The objective is to demonstrate the logical operation and scalability of these novel quantum circuits, which leverage Fourier engineering principles to provide intrinsic error protection against environmental noise - a key challenge for current...

This $425,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program aims to advance the field of continuous-time quantum walk, a versatile model with broad applications in areas such as graph analytics, quantum chemistry simulation, and cryptography. The key products and services to be delivered under this grant include: Developing high-fidelity quantum transport protocols that can overcome conventional limitations, with...

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...

This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Massachusetts Boston to develop tools for representing quantum information processing using symmetric informationally complete measurements. The goal is to establish an efficient language for quantum information by exploiting connections between quantum mechanics and algebraic number theory. Specifically, the university researchers will remedy the complexity of current SIC representations by creating a...

This $399,995 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the University of Tennessee to optimize quantum circuit design through the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). Specifically, the award will support investigating a modification to QAOA called MA-QAOA, which expands the number of parameters used to...