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<h4 class="grant-year">2022 Grants</h4>
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<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="quarc" />
<p>
To <b><a href="https://github.com/Lev-Stambler">Lev Stambler</a></b> to write a highly performant decoder in Rust for quantum error correction.
</p>
</li>
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<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="quarc" />
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To <b><a href="https://twitter.com/SMuroyaLei">Stefanie Muroya Lei</a></b> and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/christophkirsch">Christoph Kirsch</a></b>, to develop develop QUARC within the <a href="https://github.com/cksystemsgroup/unicorn">Unicorn</a> framework, a bounded model checking that verifies classical programs using the best classical and quantum algorithms.
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To <b><a href="https://twitter.com/omidkhosravaniq">Omid Khosravani</a></b> to develop adaptive quantum process tomography techniques through the use of reinforcement learning.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="iterationone" />
<p>
To <b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaitlin-gili/">Kaitlin Gili</a> </b> to conduct an outreach project called Iteration One, sparking curiosity among U.S. high school students with the most limited access to physics and computer science knowledge.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="qec-guide" />
<p>
To <b><a href="https://twitter.com/abdullahkhalids">Abdullah Khalid</a> </b> to write a methods focused <b><a href="https://abdullahkhalid.com/qecft/">guide to quantum error correction</a></b>.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="pyclifford" />
<p>
To <b><a href="https://twitter.com/hongyehu1">Hong-Ye Hu</a></b>, <b>Yi-Zhuang You</b>, and <b>Susanne Yelin</b>, to open-source PyClifford, a fast and flexible Python-based Clifford + few T gates simulator.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="symmer" />
<p>
To <b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-weaving-61b47912a/">Tim Weaving</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-ralli-293931b0/">Alexis Ralli</a></b>, to develop <a href="https://github.com/UCL-CCS/symmer">Symmer</a> into a fully scalable qubit reduction toolkit for the quantum computing community.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="qir-book" />
<p>
To <b>Paria Naghavi</b> to add code, visualizations, and conceptual content to the QIR Book, to build knowledge bridges for incoming users to the ecosystem.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="dynamic-qcnn" />
<p>
To <b><a href="https://unitary.fund/posts/intern_maria_maryam_post.html">Maria Maryam</a></b> and <b><a href="https://unitary.fund/posts/2022_karen_intern_post.html">Karen Rezkalla</a></b>, to improve the database and develop the Python client API of <b><a href="https://metriq.info/">Metriq</a></b>, as part of the <a href="https://www.qubitbyqubit.org/">Qubit x Qubit</a> Early Quantum Career Immersion Program.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="dynamic-qcnn" />
<p>
To <b>Haoxiang Wang</b> and <b>Min Li</b>, to develop a high-level API for variational quantum
algorithm (VQA) training with quantum error mitigation.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="dynamic-qcnn" />
<p>
To
<b>Matt Lourens</b>, to develop
<a href="https://github.com/matt-lourens/dynamic-qcnn">Dynamic QCNN</a>, a tool to generate quantum
convolutional neural network models programmatically.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="inside-quantum" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://steventhomson.co.uk/">Steven Thomson</a>, to create
<a href="https://www.insidequantum.org">Inside Quantum</a>, a new quantum technology themed podcast
focusing on the people behind the research, aimed at showcasing a diverse range of voices in order
to promote inclusivity and inspire the next generation of quantum technologists.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="hodl" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/atamb_">Ayush Tambde</a>, to develop a
Higher-Level Oracle Description Language (HODL), so that the compiler can interoperate with other
frameworks/languages (OpenQASM, QIR). [<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.12487">arXiv</a>]
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 class="grant-year">2021 Grants</h4>
<ul class="grant-list">
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="2qan" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/719lingling">Lingling Lao</a>, to develop 2QAN,
a compiler that optimizes quantum circuits for 2-local qubit Hamiltonian simulation problems. [<a
href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.02099"
>arXiv</a
>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="qutip-vqa" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://benbraham.com">Ben Braham</a>, to develop a framework to
define and run variational quantum algorithms in QuTiP, leveraging quantum optimal control to
parametrize control pulses.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="qudit-simulator" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/rmjh94">Hoang Van Do</a>,
<a class="recipient-link" href="http://www.normalesup.org/~gouzien/">Elie Gouzien</a>, and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/saesunkim">Saesun Kim</a>
to develop a Heisenberg-picture simulator and universal gate set for high dimensional systems.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="qworld" />
<p>
To Abuzer Yakaryilmaz and the
<b><a href="https://twitter.com/qworld19">QWorld</a></b> team to organize
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://qworld.net/qcourse511-1/">QCourse511</a>, a graduate-level
online course on quantum computing and programming.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="lattice-surgery" />
<p>
To <b>George Watkins</b>, <b>Alex Nguyen</b>, <b>Varun Seshadri</b>, and <b>Keelan Watkins</b> to
further develop a
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/latticesurgery-com/lattice-surgery-compiler"
>lattice-surgery-based</a
>
quantum error correction compiler. [Demo at
<a href="https://latticesurgery.com/">latticesurgery.com</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="qdot" />
<p>
To <b>Brian Shi</b> to build <a href="https://github.com/brs96/Qdot">Qdot</a>, a Scala 3 library
(QASM-transpiler) that allows Scala/Java developers write native quantum/hybrid programs.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="oqupy" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/fuxgerald">Gerald E. Fux</a>
and Dominic Gribben and the
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/tempoCollaboration/TimeEvolvingMPO"
>TEMPO collaboration</a
>
to develop an open source python package for simulating non-Markovian open quantum systems using
tensor network techniques. In particular, the grant will enable adding two new features: studying
the role of environment correlation functions through observables of the system and of multiple
environments coupled to a single system.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" id="qleet" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://obliviateandsurrender.github.io">Utkarsh Azad</a>
and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://researchweb.iiit.ac.in/~animesh.sinha/home"
>Animesh Sinha</a
>
to build a visualization tool called
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/QLemma/qLEET">qLEET</a>
for exploring loss landscapes, expressibility, entangling capacity and trainability for noisy,
parameterized quantum circuits.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-samuel-9a8a621ba/"
>Danny Samuel</a
>
to improve and extend the performance of variational quantum algorithms with error mitigation,
benchmarking them with mirror circuits.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Lorenzo Buffoni</b>, to develop
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/Buffoni/SQWalk">SQWalk</a>, A Stochastic Quantum
Walk simulator based on QuTiP.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Jonas Schwab and the ALF collaboration</b>, to develop
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://git.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ALF/pyALF">pyALF</a>, the Python
interface of the ALF project, a powerful and flexible package for Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of
fermion systems.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To the teams at Orange Quantum Systems and Qblox, to develop
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://quantify-quantify-core.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/stable/"
>Quantify Core</a
>, an open-source Python-based data acquisition and experiment control platform for quantum
computing and solid-state physics experiments. It is built on
<a href="https://qcodes.github.io/Qcodes/">QCoDeS</a> and is a spiritual successor of
<a href="https://github.com/DiCarloLab-Delft/PycQED_py3">PycQED</a>.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Diego Ariel Wisniacki, Martin Larocca, Emiliano Manuel Fortes, Julian Matias Ruffinelli</b> to
develop Krylov evolution algorithms integrated with QuTiP. [<a
href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.03598"
>K-GRAPE</a
>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.09805">Krylov-Loschmidt</a>]. It is hosted at
<a href="https://github.com/emilianomfortes/krylovsolver">GitHub</a>, and explained on
<a
href="https://medium.com/@julian.ruffinelli/krylov-approximation-method-for-quantum-evolution-148b3f023ec4"
>Medium</a
>.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Reem Larabi</b> to add more visualization improvements to the %debug tool in Q# by expanding
its current set of controls.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Alessandro Luongo</b> and <b>Armando Bellante</b> to develop
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://quantumalgorithms.org">Quantumalgorithms.org</a>
an open-source web book collecting in an organized manner lectures notes around quantum algorithms
for information processing, data analysis and machine learning.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/xvzcf">Goutam Tamvada</a>
and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.douglas.stebila.ca/">Douglas Stebila</a>
to develop VeriFrodo, an open-source package implementing a lattice-based quantum-resistant
cryptographic algorithms in Jasmin within the
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/open-quantum-safe">Open Quantum Safe</a>
project.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/lockwo">Owen Lockwood</a>
to develop a software package using classical deep reinforcement learning to improve quantum
optimization, both for quantum simulations and hardware integration.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/dsfranca">Daniel Stilck França</a>
to develop a software package that will help benchmark the limitations of noisy quantum devices for
solving optimization problems. [<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.05532.pdf">arXiv</a>] [<a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ULKjGu1-A"
>QIP talk on the technique</a
>].
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/RheaParekh1">Rhea Parekh</a>
and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=k9O1vSwAAAAJ&hl=en"
>Stephen DiAdamo</a
>
to further develop
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/Interlin-q/Interlin-q/">Interlin-q</a>, a
distributed quantum-enabled simulator integrated with QuNetSim. [<a
href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06841"
>arXiv</a
>] [<a href="https://medium.com/@stephen.diadamo/distributed-quantum-computing-1c5d38a34c50"
>blog post</a
>]
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 class="grant-year">2020 Grants</h4>
<ul class="grant-list">
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://dlasecki.github.io/">Dariusz Lasecki</a>
to build an open-source Python library that delivers easy-to-use high-quality pre-trained machine
learning models to predict good QAOA starting parameters for selected classes of problems.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Oscar Higgott</b>, to continue developing and maintaining
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/oscarhiggott/PyMatching">PyMatching</a>, a Python
package for decoding quantum error correcting codes with minimum-weight perfect matching (MWPM). [<a
href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13082"
>arXiv</a
>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Nicola Mosco</b>, to develop
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://gitlab.com/homodyne-ct/MartaCT.jl">Marta CT</a>, a software
package in Julia for medical diagnostics that uses a quantum-tomography-inspired technique for state
reconstruction in order to reduce the radiation dose patients receive. [<a
href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.12353"
>arXiv</a
>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To the
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://qworld.lu.lv/">QWorld</a>, team, a follow-up grant to be
incorporated as a non-profit organization and step up their activities. [
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.13552">arXiv</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To the team at
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.qubitbyqubit.org/">Qubit By Qubit</a>, to develop
courses and materials to educate a diverse ecosystem of open source quantum contributors.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To <b>Pedro Rivero Ramírez</b> for
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/pedrorrivero/qrand/">QRand</a>, a multi-platform
quantum random number generator library integrated with numpy.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="http://jemisjoky.com/">Jacob Miller</a>
for a PyTorch toolbox for matrix product state models.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://rochisha0.github.io/">Rochisha Agarwal</a>
and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/natanshmathur/">Natansh Mathur</a>
to create a
<a href="https://github.com/Quantum-Machine-Learning-Textbook/Book">Machine Learning Textbook</a>
with integrated code and visualization.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://markcunningham.tech/">Mark Cunningham</a>
to explore applications of quantum computing to medical imaging.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/splch">Spencer Churchill</a>
to write
<a href="https://quantumtales.org">Quantum Tales</a>, a series of fairy tales where quantum
algorithms are applied to resolve their conflicts.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6CORrpcAAAAJ&hl=en"
>Daniel Tan</a
>
to develop and open source the Optimal Layout Synthesizer for Quantum Computing, OLSQ. This compiler
beats other benchmarks on optimal layout of computational qubits onto physical qubits. [
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15671">arXiv</a>] [
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.09783">arXiv</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lia-yeh">Lia Yeh</a>
and the
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://fullstackquantumcomputation.tech/"
>fullstackquantumcomputation.tech</a
>
team to build community-driven open-source educational resources for quantum computing. [
<a href="https://fullstackquantumcomputation.tech/">site</a>] [
<a href="https://discord.com/invite/NDm9e9W">discord</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="http://glassnotes.github.io/">Olivia De Matteo</a>
and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.sckaiser.com/">Sarah Kaiser</a>
to build and optimize an open source Q# library for quantum RAM. [
<a href="https://github.com/qsharp-community/qram">github</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://rogerluo.me/">Roger Luo</a>
to continue the development of
<a href="https://yaoquantum.org/">Yao.jl</a>, a software for solving practical problems in quantum
computation research. The grant will support Yao's new
<a href="https://github.com/QuantumBFS/YaoLang.jl">DSL compiler development</a>, which includes an
extensible DSL infrastructure, Julia-based frontend, Julia AST and QASM code generator, and a
quantum circuit simplification infrastructure based on pattern matching. [
<a href="https://github.com/QuantumBFS/YaoLang.jl">github</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://watermarkhu.nl/">Mark Shui Hu</a>
to further develop
<a href="https://github.com/watermarkhu/qsurface"> Qsurface</a>, a simulator package for surface
codes. The grant will improve visualization methods and facilitate the collaboration of an open,
modular platform for surface code simulations. [
<a href="https://github.com/watermarkhu/qsurface">github</a>] [
<a href="https://qsurface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html">Docs</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/usmanmunara/">Muhammad Usman Farooq</a>
for a research internship in the
<a href="http://penghuiyao.info/">Yao group</a> that lost funding due to the COVID crisis. They aim
to construct a quantum channel with a Classical input Reverse Information Cost of zero.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://dlasecki.github.io/">Dariusz Lasecki</a>
to build an open source QAOA library and examples using Q#.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=k9O1vSwAAAAJ&hl=en"
>Stephen DiAdamo</a
>
to develop
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06397">QuNetSim</a>, a quantum network Python simulation
framework for investigating quantum network protocols. [
<a href="https://github.com/tqsd/QuNetSim">github</a>] [
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.06397">arXiv</a>] [
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE6jWjW1WT8">video</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://vprusso.github.io/">Vincent Russo</a>
to support
<a href="https://vprusso.github.io/toqito/">toqito</a>, an open source Python toolkit for quantum
information theory with extra functionality to study non-local games. [
<a href="https://github.com/vprusso/toqito">software</a>] [<a
href="https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.03082"
>paper</a
>] [<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7qSszJwBI">video</a>]
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 class="grant-year">2019 Grants</h4>
<ul class="grant-list">
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="http://jankiewiczstudio.com/">Klementyna Jankiewicz</a>
and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://p.migdal.pl/">Piotr Migdal</a>
to develop widgets that embed
<a href="https://github.com/Quantum-Game/bra-ket-vue"> visualizations of quantum states and ops </a>
into blog posts, interactive textbooks, and explorable explanations. These are extensions from their
work on a new version of
<a href="http://quantumgame.io/">QuantumGame</a>. [
<a href="https://github.com/stared/quantum-game-2">QuantumGame - Github</a>] [
<a href="https://github.com/Quantum-Game/bra-ket-vue">Bra-Ket-Vue - Github</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdulko/">Abdul Karim Obeid</a>
and the
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://qhyp.info/">QHyp</a>
project, developing research and software at the intersection of quantum contextuality and
probabilistic programming. [
<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0208555">Publication</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/vm6502q/qrack">Qrack</a>
an open source, comprehensive, GPU-accelerated framework for simulating universal quantum
processors. (Qrack has also passed the proof-of-concept stage for distributed simulation.) [
<a href="https://qrack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html">Docs</a>] [
<a href="https://qrack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/performance.html">Benchmarks</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WmghO7UAAAAJ"
>Alexandru Paler</a
>
and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=80srjkkAAAAJ&hl=en"
>Daniel Herr</a
>
to develop zxQentiana an open source, resource estimator for time and space tradeoffs for the
surface code that uses pyZX compilation. [
<a href="https://github.com/quantumresource/zxQentiana">github</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="http://qworld.lu.lv/index.php/qcousins/">QCousins</a>
to support their mission of welcoming a young and diverse group of programmers into quantum
computing. The grant will fund more of their quantum programming
<a href="http://qworld.lu.lv/index.php/workshop-bronze/">workshops</a>
and
<a href="http://qworld.lu.lv/index.php/qkitchen/">educational materials</a>. [
<a href="http://qworld.lu.lv/index.php/unitary-fund/">Workshops we funded</a>]
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.scigym.net/">SciGym</a>
to build open source library for reinforcement learning environments in science. Examples include
<a href="https://www.scigym.net/env/gym-surfacecode">training a surface code decoder.</a>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h4 class="grant-year">2018 Grants</h4>
<ul class="grant-list">
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="http://www.gate42.org/">Gate42</a>
to build an open source library for quantum error mitigation and dynamical decoupling: both
techniques for compiling programs to reduce the effect of noise in quantum processors.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To the
<a href="https://github.com/QuantumAI-lib/NISQAI">NISQAI</a>
project to build a library for machine learning with near-term quantum processors.
<a href="https://github.com/QuantumAI-lib/NISQAI/blob/master/proposal/nisqai.pdf">[Proposal]</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dOJ7Bhibec&t=1s">[Video]</a>
<a href="https://scirate.com/arxiv/2003.01695">[arXiv]</a>
<a href="https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.032420">[publ.]</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/perak">Petar Korponaić</a>
to support and extend the
<a href="https://quantum-circuit.com/home">Quantum Programming Studio</a>, an open source in-browser
IDE for multi-platform quantum programming. This project became the startup
<a href="https://quantastica.com/">Quantastica</a> that makes cross-platform quantum software.
<a href="https://twitter.com/quantcirc">[Twitter]</a>
<a href="https://quantum-circuit.com/">[Website]</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/LSaldyt">Lucas Saldyt</a>
to prototype a
<a href="https://github.com/LSaldyt/unitary-proposal">
probabilistic programming language for quantum computing</a
>. This library is called <a href="https://github.com/LSaldyt/qurry">Qurry</a>.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://www.cs.ru.nl/A.Kissinger/">Aleks Kissinger</a>
and
<a href="http://vdwetering.name/">John van de Wetering</a>
to support the development of
<a href="https://github.com/Quantomatic/pyzx">pyZX</a>, an optimizing quantum circuit compiler based
on a diagrammatic semantics from monoidal categories. This work resulted in two publications: (i) an
overview of the pyZX library and (ii) benchmarks showing that pyZX outperforms the state of the art
in reducing T-Count.
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04735">[arXiv1]</a>
<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.10477.pdf">[arXiv2]</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC-KVdB8pf0">[Video]</a>
<a href="http://zxcalculus.com/">[Website]</a>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://adamisntdead.com/">Adam Kelly</a>
to extend his work on the open source
<a href="https://qcgpu.github.io/">QCGPU</a> high performance quantum circuit simulator [
<a href="https://github.com/QCGPU/qcgpu">github</a>] [
<a href="https://github.com/libtangle">libraries</a>] [
<a href="https://libtangle.com/">website</a>].
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/ntwalibas" target="_blank">Ntwali Bashige</a>
to develop the
<a href="https://github.com/ntwalibas/unitary-proposal" target="_blank">Avalon</a>
quantum programming language and quantum programming communities in India and D. R. Congo.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="http://www.mustythoughts.com/about/" target="_blank"
>Michał Stęchły</a
>
to build a traveling salesman solver web application and
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://github.com/mstechly/quantum_tsp_tutorials">tutorials</a>
for Forest based on the quantum approximate optimization algorithm.
<a href="https://github.com/mstechly/quantum_tsp_tutorials">[github tutorials]</a>
<a
href="https://www.mustythoughts.com/post/solving-the-traveling-salesman-problem-using-quantum-computer"
>[blogpost]</a
>
<a href="https://github.com/BOHRTECHNOLOGY/tsp-demo-unitary-fund"
>[web app source code (it's not live anymore)]</a
>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<img class="grant-image" src="images/dummy.png" alt="grant" />
<p>
To
<a class="recipient-link" href="https://twitter.com/charl_bp" target="_blank">
Carlos Bravo Prieto
</a>
to implement the Adiabatically Assisted Variational Quantum Eigensolvers in Forest, a hybrid
classical-quantum algorithm for solving optimization problems.
<a href="https://github.com/bpcarlos/AAVQE-Tutorial" target="_blank">[github tutorial]</a>
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06210" target="_blank">[arXiv]</a>
<a href="https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2020-05-28-272/" target="_blank">[publication]</a>
</p>
</li>
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