CQISE hosted its annual meeting on the OSU campus on April 10, 2026. The successful event brought together faculty, university leadership, industry members, students, and members of the Ohio Quantum Consortium. Attendees were able to hear brief presentations from each of the 5 OHQC seed awardees, with diverse topics spanning post-quantum cryptography to autonomous vehicles algorithms. OSU students from Physics, Engineering, and Chemistry departments put on a poster session, where CQISE Advisory Board members voted on the top 3 to be awarded prizes. Refreshments were provided by generous sponsor JobsOhio. The event concluded with a lively Quantum Career panel specially for the students in attendance, with industry members as panelists - ready to answer student's questions about different jobs in the QIS field.
The full agenda is listed below.
AGENDA
2:00 - 2:30 Leadership Remarks and Overview of Center Activity
CQISE Co-Directors Ronald M. Reano and Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin
VPR John Horack
ASC Dean Susan Olesik
COE Chair Balasubramaniam Shanker
2:30 - 3:30 OHQC Seed Awardees - Short Project Presentations
Xinmiao Zhang and Youngseok Kim - "Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: From Theory to Hardware Implementation"
Zhihui Zhu - "Foundations of Efficient Quantum Learning Through Structure-Aware Modeling and Algorithms"
Joseph Zadrozny - "Electron-Spin Dynamics in Magnetically Noisy Cocrystals"
Shamsul Arafin and Jay Gupta - "Rare Gas Intercalation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Single Photon Emission"
Qadeer Ahmed - "Quantum Optimization for Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Vehicle Routing"
3:30 - 5:00 Poster Session
5:00 - 6:00 Student Quantum Career Information Panel