The QuForce

Batch 2 Demo Day - August 2023

Presenting the QuForce, the world's leading quantum computing community, hosting its second Demo Day for the QuForce Fellows Program, spotlighting 11 fellows and their 5 groundbreaking projects. Join us to witness quantum innovation in action: from Grover Fixed Point Search for QUBO by Atithi Acharya, Ákos Nagy, Jaime Park, and Cindy Zhang, to Rebecca Krauthamer's framework on Quantum Ethics, insights on Building a Quantum Database by Govind Srinivasaraghavan and Drs. Jeff Esposito, Mandy Cheung, and Jenia Rousseva, the launch of Fellows.Network by Jim Schwoebel, and a glimpse into Quantum Genomics with Dr. Jessica Tsai, MD/PhD.

Batch 1 Demo Day - August 2022

This is the first Demo Day for the QuForce Fellows Program, which overviews 6 projects across 9 fellows. First Place was awarded a tie between The Preliminary Unitary API project, run by Jonathan Johnson; and the Asymmetric Cloning to Eavesdrop on BB84 Protocol project, run by Elizabeth Campolongo, Brian Pigott, and Hardik Routray. The first project showcased impactful approaches to teaching quantum physics and quantum computing software engineering by embedding core concepts into computer games to build intuition for the concepts and gamify the learning process. The second project demonstrated critical vulnerabilities in quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols. Third place went to Alaap Murali for his Quantum Computing as a Product project. The Most Novel Award went to Siddharth Rangnekar and Nizar Lethif for their Asymmetric Bases Cloning: A Novel Approach to Cloning-based Attacks on BB84 project.

• Building a quantum vector database
• QAOA: benchmarking it on real quantum computers
• Leveraging quantum algorithms to speed up/reduce costs for WGS/RNA-Seq pipelines
• Experimental validation of information gain vs disturbance trade-offs for asymmetric cloning eavesdropping on BB84
• Dynamic Parameter Inference for a Quantum Optimizer
• Assisted Mapping of Hard Combinatorial Problems to Quantum Circuits
• From Classical Linear Algebra to Today’s Heterogeneous High Performance Computers
• Data mining quantum circuits