QCIS-FF: Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

QCIS-FF：量子计算

• 批准号: 1955032
• 负责人: Nancy Amato
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 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: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1955032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: QCIS; FF; Quantum; Computing; &amp

Quantum Computing and Information Science (QCIS) is a priority area for growth at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the computer science department (Illinois CS), the Grainger College of Engineering, and the University. While other departments in engineering, including Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Physics, have faculty in this area, the CS department currently does not have any faculty actively pursuing quantum computing as their primary research area. This NSF QCIS Faculty Fellow award will enable Illinois CS to recruit a faculty member who will focus on QCIS research and who can lead the development and teaching of a quantum-focused curriculum for computer science students. In addition to having strong support in the Computer Science Department, the QCIS Faculty Fellow will benefit from major investments in QCIS by the Grainger College of Engineering and the State of Illinois. The Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology center (IQUIST) in the Grainger College of Engineering is a multi-disciplinary enterprise that brings together researchers from Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and other departments, to collaborate on a variety of quantum information related problems. One of the key thrusts of IQUIST is to build a distributed quantum processor network testbed which will provide a unique opportunity for faculty in computer science to leverage. The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), recently established by the University of Illinois and the State of Illinois in the city of Chicago, will provide opportunities for future Illinois faculty members in QCIS to interact closely with students and researchers at the University of Chicago, Fermilab, Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Chicago though the Chicago Quantum Exchange.Theoretical computer science has provided a significant impetus for quantum computing research soon after the inception of the field and plays a central role in its development. Computational complexity, cryptography and algorithms are fertile and natural areas of research collaboration for a QCIS Faculty Fellow and the theory faculty in the CS department have strong presence in all these areas and some have touched upon quantum topics in their research. Illinois has long been a preeminent leader in the fields of scientific computing and high-performance computing (HPC). Within the scientific computing group at Illinois, departmental faculty are pursuing work that is cohesive to research in quantum computation and quantum information. There is, in particular, interesting work to be done in signal processing with quantum algorithms. There have been some very interesting applications of quantum algorithms to tasks such as signal denoising, and finding concrete applications in various ML tasks is of much interest. Practical quantum computing requires not only algorithmic development but substantial innovations in programming, systems and architecture and here also Illinois CS has a large set of faculty working on a diverse set of topics that will be excellent collaborators for a QCIS Faculty Fellow.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.

量子计算和信息科学 (QCIS) 是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校计算机科学系 (Illinois CS)、格兰杰工程学院和大学的优先发展领域。 虽然其他工程系，包括电气与计算机工程 (ECE) 和物理系，都有该领域的教员，但计算机科学系目前没有任何教员积极将量子计算作为其主要研究领域。 NSF QCIS 教职研究员奖将使伊利诺伊州计算机科学学院能够招募一名教职人员，该教职人员将专注于 QCIS 研究，并能够领导计算机科学学生的量子课程的开发和教学。 除了获得计算机科学系的大力支持外，QCIS 教职研究员还将受益于 Grainger 工程学院和伊利诺伊州对 QCIS 的重大投资。 位于格兰杰工程学院的伊利诺伊州量子信息科学与技术中心（IQUIST）是一个多学科企业，汇集了来自物理、计算机科学、电气工程、数学等部门的研究人员，在各种量子信息方面进行合作相关问题。 IQUIST 的主要目标之一是建立一个分布式量子处理器网络测试平台，这将为计算机科学教师提供一个独特的利用机会。 伊利诺伊大学和伊利诺伊州最近在芝加哥市建立了 Discovery Partners Institute (DPI)，将为未来伊利诺伊州 QCIS 的教员提供与芝加哥大学费米实验室的学生和研究人员密切互动的机会、西北大学、阿贡国家实验室和伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校通过芝加哥量子交换中心。理论计算机科学在该领域诞生后不久就为量子计算研究提供了重大推动力，并在其发展中发挥着核心作用。计算复杂性、密码学​​和算法是 QCIS 教员研究员研究合作的肥沃且自然的领域，CS 系的理论教员在所有这些领域都有很强的影响力，有些人在他们的研究中触及了量子主题。 伊利诺伊州长期以来一直是科学计算和高性能计算 (HPC) 领域的杰出领导者。 在伊利诺伊州科学计算小组内，系里的教员正在从事与量子计算和量子信息研究相结合的工作。 在使用量子算法进行信号处理方面，还有一些特别有趣的工作要做。量子算法在信号去噪等任务中有一些非常有趣的应用，并且在各种机器学习任务中找到具体的应用也很有趣。 实用的量子计算不仅需要算法开发，还需要在编程、系统和架构方面进行实质性创新，伊利诺伊州 CS 拥有大量致力于不同主题的教师，他们将成为 QCIS 教员研究员的优秀合作者。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。