Weiwen Jiang, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing (CEC), and Lei Yang, Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology, CEC, received funding for a workshop on quantum system stability and reproducibility.
Jiang and Yang will use this funding to support students and researchers who participate in StableQ 2025. The event will bring together experts from academia, industry, and national laboratories to report state-of-the-art developments, exchange ideas and practices, and foster cross-disciplinary research aimed at addressing unstable noise and enabling reproducible quantum computing.
Jiang and Yang received $15,000 from the National Science Foundation for this award. Funding began in June 2025 and will end in late May 2026.
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