URI Secures Funding and Partners with IBM for Quantum Computing Initiative on World Quantum Day
The University of Rhode Island (URI) has announced a new quantum computing initiative on World Quantum Day. The initiative, supported by funding secured by U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, includes a new research partnership with IBM that will provide URI faculty and students with access to IBM’s quantum computing systems. The $1 million directed federal earmark and other funding from the URI College of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Oceanography will support additional visiting faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students for the University’s master’s degree and graduate certificate programs in quantum computing.
There will also be outreach and summer research opportunities for high school students. The World Quantum Day symposium at URI was kicked off by Reed and URI President Marc Parlange and included prominent speakers from the quantum computing world.
Partnering with IBM will give URI students and faculty access to IBM’s quantum systems and will be a boon for student education and faculty research. The initiative will also help URI expand its research and teaching capacity by adding four new visiting faculty, four postdoctoral researchers and four graduate teaching assistants in the coming years. URI plans to be a hub for quantum information science in the Northeast, training the next generation of students and researchers.
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