CQISE Awards First Group of Annual Ohio Quantum Consortium Awards

The Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (CQISE) has selected awardees for the annual Ohio Quantum Consortium Awards. This is the inaugural year for these awards, which are made possible by the industry members of the Ohio Quantum Consortium (OHQC), launched by CQISE in 2025 with Honda Research Institute as the founding member.
CQISE received a large cohort of excellent proposals, and were pleased to be able to select a variety of excellent projects in the QISE space to fund. Below are listed the awardees. 

Title: Quantum Optimization for Sustainable and Energy-Efficient Vehicle Routing
PI: Qadeer Ahmed, Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Support: Ohio Quantum Consortium
 
Title: Rare Gas Intercalation in Hexagonal Boron Nitride for Single Photon Emission
PIs: Shamsul Arafin, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jay Gupta, Professor, Department of Physics
Support: Ohio Quantum Consortium & CQISE
 
Title: Electron-Spin Dynamics in Magnetically Noisy Cocrystals
PI: Joseph Zadrozny, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Support: Ohio Quantum Consortium & CQISE
 
Title: Quantum Error-Correcting Codes: From Theory to Hardware Implementation
PIs: Xinmiao Zhang, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Youngseok Kim, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Support: CQISE
 
Title: Foundations of Efficient Quantum Learning Through Structure-Aware Modeling and Algorithms
PI: Zhihui Zhu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Support: CQISE
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