QCIS-FF: Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow at the University of New Mexico

QCIS-FF：量子计算

基本信息

批准号：
1954960
负责人：
Mihail Devetsikiotis
金额：
$ 75万
依托单位：
University of New Mexico
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-07-01 至 2023-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1954960&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
QCIS FF Quantum Computing &amp

项目摘要

Quantum Information Science (QIS) presents a transdisciplinary grand challenge that will require unified efforts across engineering and science disciplines, with the promise of revolutionizing future technologies in computing, communication, and sensing. With this award the University of New Mexico will hire a new Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow (QCIS-FF) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). The QCIS-FF will emphasize transdisciplinary transformative research and education, breaking down traditional barriers between Engineering and the Sciences and beyond to all relevant parts of the University. The QCIS-FF will be embedded in the fertile QIS ecosystem in New Mexico including UNM, Sandia National Labs, and Los Alamos National Lab, and become a full member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control. The QCIS-FF will help lead the effort in education and workforce development in QIS at UNM, through the development of new courses, curricula, and degree programs. In all of these ways the QCIS-FF will act to advance QIS as called for in the implementation the National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018.Growing expertise in ECE is essential to progress in QIS. Key areas of QIS are traditional subjects of ECE including algorithms, cybersecurity, optimization, and machine learning. The new QCIS-FF will push the envelope and expand knowledge in these areas and in new transdisciplinary subjects. This will be achieved in a variety of manners. The QCIS-FF will help to launch new research and education initiatives, such as implementing UNM's participation in the IBM Q Network, one of world-leading eco-systems in quantum computing. This will enable Hub members to work directly with IBM to advance quantum computing, with early, privileged access to the IBM-Q commercial systems, such as the newly announced 53-qubit quantum computers. Participation in the Q Network will link our QCIS Faculty Fellow and students as part of a hub-and-spoke model of engagement with members from industry, academia, and government. Other projects include the NSF Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum (STAQ) co-design project, CISE's largest investment in quantum computing to date, consisting of an interdisciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists, engineers, and computer scientists from seven universities co-designing next generation quantum computers. Overall, the Faculty Fellow will operative in a fertile QIS research environment at UNM. In education and workforce development, the goals includes new courses in ECE and a cross-listed retooling of existing QIS courses that will better serve the transdisciplinary mission. These courses will be part of a new MS concentration in QCIS, and a new university-wide PhD concentration in QIS that can be added to home departments including ECE, CS, Physics, and Chemistry. The new courses will also provide electives to undergraduate seniors and graduate students. These new initiatives will be integrated with the existing programs in ECE such as the recently established Managed Online Programs in the Internet of Things. UNM will partner with the IEEE Quantum Initiative in the planning and development of education workshops and to provide QIS teaching materials through their education portal. They will also partner with LANL Quantum Computing Summer School developing new curricula, educational materials, and mentorship of next-generation quantum computing and information scientists.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

量子信息科学（QIS）提出了跨学科的巨大挑战，需要工程和科学学科的共同努力，并有望彻底改变计算、通信和传感领域的未来技术。凭借这一奖项，新墨西哥大学将在电气与计算机工程系 (ECE) 聘请一名新的量子计算与信息科学教员 (QCIS-FF)。 QCIS-FF 将强调跨学科的变革性研究和教育，打破工程与科学之间的传统障碍，并超越大学的所有相关部门。 QCIS-FF将嵌入新墨西哥州丰富的QIS生态系统，包括新墨西哥州、桑迪亚国家实验室和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室，并成为量子信息与控制中心的正式成员。 QCIS-FF 将通过开发新课程、课程和学位项目，帮助领导新墨西哥大学 QIS 的教育和劳动力发展工作。通过所有这些方式，QCIS-FF 将按照实施 2018 年国家量子倡议法案的要求采取行动，推进 QIS。不断增长的 ECE 专业知识对于 QIS 的进展至关重要。 QIS 的关键领域是 ECE 的传统学科，包括算法、网络安全、优化和机器学习。新的 QCIS-FF 将突破极限并扩展这些领域和新的跨学科科目的知识。这将通过多种方式实现。 QCIS-FF 将帮助启动新的研究和教育计划，例如实现新墨西哥大学参与 IBM Q Network（世界领先的量子计算生态系统之一）。这将使 Hub 成员能够直接与 IBM 合作推进量子计算，并能够尽早特权访问 IBM-Q 商业系统，例如新发布的 53 量子位量子计算机。参与 Q Network 将把我们的 QCIS 教员和学生联系起来，作为与工业界、学术界和政府成员接触的中心辐射模式的一部分。其他项目包括 NSF Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum (STAQ) 联合设计项目，这是 CISE 迄今为止在量子计算方面最大的投资，由来自七所大学的理论和实验物理学家、工程师和计算机科学家组成的跨学科团队共同设计下一代量子计算机。总体而言，该教职研究员将在新墨西哥大学丰富的 QIS 研究环境中开展工作。在教育和劳动力发展方面，目标包括 ECE 的新课程以及对现有 QIS 课程的交叉列出的重组，以更好地服务于跨学科使命。这些课程将成为 QCIS 的新 MS 集中课程和 QIS 的新的全校范围内博士集中课程的一部分，可以添加到包括 ECE、CS、物理和化学在内的本地院系。新课程还将为本科生和研究生提供选修课。这些新举措将与欧洲经委会的现有计划相结合，例如最近建立的物联网在线管理计划。新墨西哥州将与 IEEE Quantum Initiative 合作规划和开发教育研讨会，并通过其教育门户网站提供 QIS 教材。他们还将与 LANL 量子计算暑期学校合作，开发新课程、教材，并为下一代量子计算和信息科学家提供指导。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和信息进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。