QCIS-FF: Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow at UC-Berkeley

量子计算机有望彻底改变计算机和社会的格局。加州大学伯克利分校坚定地致力于在这场革命中发挥重要作用，通过迅速扩大其在这一领域的现有努力，利用其现有的跨学科中心，BQIC（伯克利量子信息和计算中心）和CQCS（量子相干科学中心），以及靠近劳伦斯伯克利国家实验室(LBNL)-美国能源部3000万美元量子试验台的所在地。新的量子计算和信息科学学院研究员（QCIS-FF）在计算机科学领域的招聘，由该奖项资助，将扩大对新型量子算法和协议的探索，用于基准测试和验证量子计算机。它还将有助于满足学生对QIS课程不断增长的需求。加州大学伯克利分校正处于量子计算领域的一个独特时刻，中小型量子计算机即将成为现实。展望未来，我们需要的是一个跨学科的努力，将实验和理论物理学家以及计算机科学家聚集在一起，从实验实现到基准测试和量子纠错，再到设计量子算法和应用程序以及验证量子计算的协议。QCIS-FF奖将有助于整合这一跨学科的努力。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Quantum computers hold out the promise of revolutionizing the landscape of computing and society. UC-Berkeley is deeply committed to playing a major part in this revolution, by rapidly scaling its existing effort in this field, leveraging its existing interdisciplinary centers, BQIC (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) and CQCS (Center for Quantum Coherent Science), as well as close proximity of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)---home of the $30M DOE quantum testbed effort. The new Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow (QCIS-FF) hire in computer science, funded by this award, will expand the exploration of novel quantum algorithms and protocols for benchmarking and verifying quantum computers. It will also help to meet an exploding student demand for courses in QIS. UC-Berkeley is poised at a singular moment in the field of quantum computing, with small to medium-scale quantum computers on the verge of becoming a reality. Moving forward, what is called for is an interdisciplinary effort that brings together experimental and theoretical physicists and computer scientists working on the full stack from experimental realization to benchmarking and quantum error correction, to designing quantum algorithms and applications and protocols for verifying quantum computations. The QCIS-FF award will help coalesce this interdisciplinary effort.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.