QCIS-FF: Quantum Computer Systems Faculty Fellowship

量子计算正处于一场革命的尖端。量子计算产业正在兴起，硬件原型已经部署用于公共用途。然而，在理论上开发的量子应用与不久的将来可用的硬件的尺寸和可靠性之间仍然存在着巨大的差距。缩小这一差距的关键是围绕量子计算软件和系统发展科学和劳动力。有了更高效的量子软件和精心的系统设计，量子应用程序可以在更小的机器上运行，指令更少，是原来的100倍甚至1000倍。这种更高的效率将使实际的量子计算比单纯的技术进步提前10到20年实现。该奖项旨在通过资助芝加哥大学量子信息科学和计算机科学接口的教师职位来促进这一劳动力的创造。芝加哥大学计算机科学系将使用NSF QCIS教师奖学金在量子计算软件和系统领域招聘一名新的教师，该教师具有以下一项或多项专业知识：量子算法，编程语言，编译，验证和电路优化。QCIS学院研究员将促进创建有用的软件抽象的努力，这将使量子计算中的近期硬件进步得以使用。这样的加入对芝加哥大学分子工程学院在量子技术计算方面的发展起着重要作用。该教员研究员将扩大芝加哥大学量子信息科学的课程设置，并培训学生。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 computing is at the cusp of a revolution. A quantum computing industry is emerging and hardware prototypes have been deployed for public use. Yet a significant gap remains between the quantum applications that have been developed in theory and the size and reliability of the hardware that will be available in the near future. The key to closing this gap is to develop a science and workforce around quantum computing software and systems. With more efficient quantum software and careful system design, quantum applications can run on much smaller machines with many fewer instructions, by a factor of 100 or even 1000. This greater efficiency will allow practical quantum computing to be realized 10 to 20 years earlier than with technology progress alone. This award seeks to catalyze the creation of this workforce by funding a faculty position at the interface of Quantum Information Science and Computer Science at the University of Chicago.The Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago will use NSF QCIS Faculty Fellowship to recruit a new faculty member in this area of Quantum Computing Software and Systems, with expertise in one or more of the following: quantum algorithms, programming languages, compilation, verification, and circuit optimization. The QCIS Faculty Fellow will catalyze efforts to create useful software abstractions that will enable use of near-term hardware advances in quantum computing. Such addition plays an important role in growing the School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago in computational aspects of quantum technologies. The Faculty Fellow will expand course offerings in Quantum Information Science at the University of Chicago and train students.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.