$230,000 awarded to AQSN members through round 1 of our Micro and Measo-grant schemes

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, 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 (UNSW): Implementing Virtual Distillation with Quantum Algorithms.

3 Measogrants, sponsored by Hon Hai research, 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, 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. There were many very strong proposals and we regret that this round was oversubscribed. But this engagement from the community will make Round 2 bigger and Better.

Congratulations to everyone.