QCIS-FF: Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow at the University of New Mexico

量子信息科学（QIS）提出了一个跨学科的重大挑战，需要跨工程和科学学科的统一努力，有望在计算，通信和传感方面彻底改变未来的技术。新墨西哥大学将在电气与计算机工程系（ECE）聘请一名新的量子计算与信息科学学院研究员（QCIS-FF）。QCIS-FF将强调跨学科的变革性研究和教育，打破工程和科学之间的传统障碍，并超越大学的所有相关部分。QCIS-FF将嵌入新墨西哥州肥沃的QIS生态系统，包括新墨西哥大学、桑迪亚国家实验室和洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室，并成为量子信息与控制中心的正式成员。QCIS-FF将通过开发新课程、课程和学位项目，帮助领导新墨西哥大学QIS在教育和劳动力发展方面的努力。QCIS-FF将按照2018年《国家量子倡议法案》的要求，通过所有这些方式推进QIS。不断增长的欧洲经委会专业知识对QIS的进展至关重要。QIS的关键领域是ECE的传统学科，包括算法、网络安全、优化和机器学习。新的QCIS-FF将推动并扩展这些领域和新的跨学科学科的知识。这将通过多种方式实现。QCIS-FF将有助于启动新的研究和教育计划，例如实施新墨西哥大学参与IBM Q网络，这是世界领先的量子计算生态系统之一。这将使Hub成员能够直接与IBM合作，推进量子计算，并尽早获得IBM- q商业系统的特权，例如新宣布的53量子位量子计算机。参与Q网络将把我们的QCIS教师研究员和学生联系起来，作为与工业界、学术界和政府成员接触的中心辐射型模式的一部分。其他项目包括NSF软件定制量子体系结构（STAQ）协同设计项目，这是CISE迄今为止在量子计算方面最大的投资，由来自七所大学的理论和实验物理学家、工程师和计算机科学家组成的跨学科团队共同设计下一代量子计算机。总的来说，学院研究员将在新墨西哥大学肥沃的QIS研究环境中工作。在教育和劳动力发展方面，目标包括在欧洲经委会开设新课程，并对现有QIS课程进行交叉重组，以更好地服务于跨学科使命。这些课程将成为QCIS新的硕士课程的一部分，以及QIS新的全校范围内的博士课程的一部分，这些课程可以添加到母系，包括ECE， CS，物理和化学。新课程还将为本科生、大四学生和研究生提供选修课。这些新举措将与欧洲经委会现有的项目相结合，例如最近建立的物联网管理在线项目。新墨西哥大学将与IEEE量子计划合作，规划和发展教育研讨会，并通过其教育门户网站提供量子信息系统教材。他们还将与LANL量子计算暑期学校合作，开发新的课程、教材，并为下一代量子计算和信息科学家提供指导。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 Information Science (QIS) presents a transdisciplinary grand challenge that will require unified efforts across engineering and science disciplines, with the promise of revolutionizing future technologies in computing, communication, and sensing. With this award the University of New Mexico will hire a new Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow (QCIS-FF) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). The QCIS-FF will emphasize transdisciplinary transformative research and education, breaking down traditional barriers between Engineering and the Sciences and beyond to all relevant parts of the University. The QCIS-FF will be embedded in the fertile QIS ecosystem in New Mexico including UNM, Sandia National Labs, and Los Alamos National Lab, and become a full member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control. The QCIS-FF will help lead the effort in education and workforce development in QIS at UNM, through the development of new courses, curricula, and degree programs. In all of these ways the QCIS-FF will act to advance QIS as called for in the implementation the National Quantum Initiative Act of 2018.Growing expertise in ECE is essential to progress in QIS. Key areas of QIS are traditional subjects of ECE including algorithms, cybersecurity, optimization, and machine learning. The new QCIS-FF will push the envelope and expand knowledge in these areas and in new transdisciplinary subjects. This will be achieved in a variety of manners. The QCIS-FF will help to launch new research and education initiatives, such as implementing UNM's participation in the IBM Q Network, one of world-leading eco-systems in quantum computing. This will enable Hub members to work directly with IBM to advance quantum computing, with early, privileged access to the IBM-Q commercial systems, such as the newly announced 53-qubit quantum computers. Participation in the Q Network will link our QCIS Faculty Fellow and students as part of a hub-and-spoke model of engagement with members from industry, academia, and government. Other projects include the NSF Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum (STAQ) co-design project, CISE's largest investment in quantum computing to date, consisting of an interdisciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists, engineers, and computer scientists from seven universities co-designing next generation quantum computers. Overall, the Faculty Fellow will operative in a fertile QIS research environment at UNM. In education and workforce development, the goals includes new courses in ECE and a cross-listed retooling of existing QIS courses that will better serve the transdisciplinary mission. These courses will be part of a new MS concentration in QCIS, and a new university-wide PhD concentration in QIS that can be added to home departments including ECE, CS, Physics, and Chemistry. The new courses will also provide electives to undergraduate seniors and graduate students. These new initiatives will be integrated with the existing programs in ECE such as the recently established Managed Online Programs in the Internet of Things. UNM will partner with the IEEE Quantum Initiative in the planning and development of education workshops and to provide QIS teaching materials through their education portal. They will also partner with LANL Quantum Computing Summer School developing new curricula, educational materials, and mentorship of next-generation quantum computing and information scientists.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.