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