Cisco Quantum Research Award Recipients
Alireza Shabani
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Cisco Quantum Lab has started with the mission to develop the underlying technologies for quantum networks and photonic information processing. Quantum technologies are currently at their early stage of development and the progress relies on basic science research in academic labs. As part of our development program, we support academic projects by providing research grants. Broadly, we fund projects in all quantum technology stack layers, hardware, software, and applications. A detailed list can be found on our call for proposals.
We are excited to announce the recipients of the quantum research award in the past year, 11 faculty members from the universities in the US, the UK, and the EU. Partnerships between industry and academic labs are vital to successful commercialization of quantum technologies.
| Principle Investigator | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Marcos Curty | Universidade de Vigo | Secure Quantum Communication with Correlated Light Sources |
| Yufei Ding | University of California, Santa Barbara | Programming System for Distributing Quantum Circuits in a Quantum Data Network |
| Himanshu Gupta | Stony Brook University | Efficient Entanglement Distribution in Quantum Network |
| Chris Heunen | University of Edinburgh | Distributing big quantum computations over small quantum computers |
| Elham Kashefi | University of Edinburgh | Practical Quantum Cryptography from Hardware Assumptions |
| Isaac Kim | University of California, Davis | Scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture with few photon sources |
| Peter Lodahl | University of Copenhagen | LTQconn - Loss-Tolerant Photonic Quantum Interconnections |
| Hideo Mabuchi | Stanford University | Quantum synthesis via many- body physics in broadband nonlinear nanophotonics |
| Omar Magana-Loaiza | Louisiana State University | Adaptive high-dimensional quantum cryptography in optical fiber networks |
| Galan Moody | University of California, Santa Barbara | Programmable AlGaAs-on- Insulator Photonic Chip for Graph State Quantum Computings |
| Mohsen Razavi | University of Leeds | Quantum Wide Area Networks via Multi-Antenna Satellite Nodes |
To learn more about our grant program and the areas of our interest, please visit our open call.