AQSN awards more than $230,000 in Round 1 to local quantum researchers
Round 1 of the Australian Quantum Software Network Micro and MeasoGrant scheme has been finalised and we are extremely honoured to have awarded more than $230,000 in funding to Australian researchers.
Sponsored by Hon Hai Research Institute and startup BTQ, round 1 of the AQSN Micro and Measogrant scheme has awarded 11 grants to PhD and early and mid career researchers around Australia.
6 Microgrants were awarded, sponsored by Hon Hai research to:
Jonas Freiheit (RMIT University): Optimising Encoding & Readout for Quantum Reservoir Computing Based on Quantum Ising Models.
Elija Perrier (University of Technology Sydney): Coherent Learning for Quantum Agents
Abhinash Kumar Roy (Macquarie University): Resource-Effcient Characterisation of Multi-Time Quantum Processes
Varun Srivastava (Macquarie University): Randomised Benchmarking as a Diagnostic for Non-Markovian Noise and Fault-Tolerance Thresholds
Mingyu Sun (University of Technology Sydney): Scalable Fidelity Estimation and Learnability from Local Measurements
Tianhui Zhu (University of New South Wales): Implementing Virtual Distillation with Quantum Algorithms
3 Measogrants, sponsored by Hon Hai research is awarded to:
Harini Hapuarachchi (RMIT University): Towards a unified software toolkit to simulate noise in diamond-based room-temperature spin qubits
Angus Southwell (Monash University): Quantum Gibbs sampling via simplicial complexes
Clément Canonne (University of Sydney): Towards understanding which quantum circuits can be classically sampled
2 Measogrants, sponsored by BTQ is awarded to:
Steven Duong (University of Wollongong): Blind One-Shot Signatures (BOSS) for Private, Single-Use Authorization in Blockchain Transactions
Madhav Krishnan Vijayan (University of Technology Sydney): Building the software tool-chain for a Quantum RSA challenge
A huge thanks to our sponsors, our assessment committees and our applicants. Â There were many very strong proposals and we regret that this round was oversubscribed. Â But this encouragement from the community will make Round 2 bigger and Better.
Congratulations to everyone.
