2025
September 3, 2025
IEEE Early Career Award
I am honored to be selected as an inaugural recepient of the IEEE QTC Distinguished Early Career Award.
Citation: "For outstanding contributions in quantum computing and engineering." Learn more ❯❯
Citation: "For outstanding contributions in quantum computing and engineering." Learn more ❯❯
September 2, 2025
Best Paper Award
Our paper on Local Optimization of Quantum Circuits receives the Best Paper Award (1st place in QSYS track) at IEEE QCE 2025! Congratulations to Jatin Arora et. al.!
September 1, 2025
Internships
Congratulations to QSL members for completing their summer internships: Rohan Kumar at JPMorgan Chase, Shifan Xu at PNNL, and Victor at Quantum Elements!
September 1, 2025
Welcome, Joe and Evan!
QSL welcomes new members: Joe Aulicino and Evan McKinney.
September 1, 2025
Launching Quantum Science and Engineering Certificate
Starting Fall 2025, I am taking the role as the inaugural director of Yale College's Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE) certificate program! Learn more ❯❯
2024
November 2, 2024
NSF Workshop on Quantum Operating Systems
I will be co-organizing the first Workshop on Quantum OS and Real-Time Control to discuss the need for an operating system or runtime libraries that can efficiently manage practical-scale QC systems with hybrids of classical and quantum units. Join us in Austin, TX, co-located with SOSP and MICRO conferences! This is funded by an NSF grant in Computer Systems Research. Thanks, NSF! Learn more ❯❯
September 15, 2024
DOE Grant
Our group joined the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA), a DOE National QIS Research Center. Thanks, DOE! Learn more ❯❯
September 2, 2024
Best Paper Award
Our paper GraFeyn: Efficient Parallel Sparse Simulation of Quantum Circuits receives the Best Paper Award at IEEE QCE 2024! Congratulations to S. Westrick et. al.!
September 1, 2024
Welcome, Sudatta and Yizhuo!
QSL welcomes new members: Sudatta Hor, Yizhuo Tan.
March 1, 2024
Roberts Innovation Fund
Our group receives a grant to advance Data-Centric Quantum Computing. Thanks, Yale Ventures! Learn more ❯❯
February 27, 2024
NSF CAREER Award
NSF CAREER award to develop Error-Correcting Quantum Computing Systems. Thanks, NSF! Learn more ❯❯
2023
December 20, 2023
QuantumCT Grant
Our group is funded by QuantumCT for a collaborative project between Yale, UConn, and RTRC. Thanks, QuantumCT! Learn more ❯❯
September 2, 2023
Best Paper, Runner Up
Our paper on A Quantum Computer Trusted Execution Environment receives the Best Paper, Runner Up at IEEE CAL! Congratulations to T. Trochatos et. al.!
September 1, 2023
Welcome, Ben, Kun, Rohan, and Victor!
QSL welcomes its largest cohort of students: Ben Foxman, Kun Liu, Rohan Kumar, Victor Zhou.
September 1, 2023
Congrats to Rohan
Congratulations to Rohan Kumar (joining us in September 2023) for receiving an NSF Graduate Fellowship!
August 27, 2023
DARPA Grant
DARPA Advanced Research Concepts (ARC) award for the project Enabling noise-resilient quantum speedup for optimization problems. Thanks, DARPA!
July 23, 2023
NSF Grant
We are awarded an NSF Grant in Foundations of Emerging Technologies for Design and Implementation of Quantum Databases. Thanks, NSF! Learn more ❯❯
July 20, 2023
Our book
Our textbook Quantum Computer Systems (with Fred Chong) has been translated in Japanese. Learn more ❯❯
June 23, 2023
Boehringer Ingelheim Grant
We are awarded grant from Boehringer Ingelheim to bring down the computational costs for simulations for drug design on fault-tolerant quantum computers. Thanks, BI!
2022
November 10, 2022
Bell Labs Prize, Finalist
We are selected as a finalist (5 out of 107 submissions from 25 countries) with J. Szefer. Thanks NOKIA Bell Labs!
September 1, 2022
Welcome, Dantong!
New graduate student joining QSL: Dantong Li.
April 26, 2022
New Quantum Computing Colloquium Series at Yale
I am organizing a new speaker series starting in April 2022! The Quantum Computing Colloquium, hosted jointly by YQI and Yale CS, is a new speaker series that brings together world-leading researchers to the vibrant quantum community at Yale for an engaging conversation on the latest advances in quantum computing. The series is founded on the idea that researchers across disciplines must work together to unlock the power of quantum computers. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in giving a talk. Learn more ❯❯
March 29, 2022
New Roles as Journal Editors
I recently joined two journals – Quantum as an Editor, and ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC) as an Associate Editor. Please submit your research work to the journals!
2021
September 1, 2021
Welcome, Shifan!
QSL welcomes our first graduate student: Shifan Xu.
September 1, 2021
Yale Quantum Systems Lab Now Opens
The Yale Quantum Systems Lab (QSL) is open for business. Come join us here at Yale! We have multiple open research positions at the Ph.D. and undergraduate levels. Learn more ❯❯
September 1, 2021
New Position at Yale
I am thrilled to share that I am joining Yale CS as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2021. I am deeply grateful for my mentors, colleagues, and friends at UChicago and across the EPiQC collaboration for making my graduate school experience so rewarding and memorable. Learn more ❯❯