QCIS-FF: Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

量子计算和信息科学（QCIS）是伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校计算机科学系（伊利诺伊CS），工程学院和大学的优先发展领域。 虽然其他工程系，包括电气和计算机工程（ECE）和物理学，在这方面有教师，CS部门目前没有任何教师积极追求量子计算作为他们的主要研究领域。这个NSF QCIS教师研究员奖将使伊利诺伊州CS招聘一名教师谁将专注于QCIS研究，谁可以领导计算机科学学生的量子课程的开发和教学。 除了在计算机科学系得到强有力的支持外，QCIS教职研究员还将受益于Grainger工程学院和伊利诺伊州对QCIS的重大投资。 位于格兰杰工程学院的伊利诺伊量子信息科学与技术中心（IQUIST）是一个多学科企业，汇集了来自物理，计算机科学，电气工程，数学和其他部门的研究人员，在各种量子信息相关问题上进行合作。 IQUIST的关键目标之一是建立一个分布式量子处理器网络测试平台，这将为计算机科学教师提供一个独特的机会。 发现合作伙伴研究所（DPI），最近成立的伊利诺伊大学和伊利诺伊州在芝加哥市，将提供机会，为未来的伊利诺伊州教师在QCIS与学生和研究人员密切互动，在芝加哥，费米实验室，西北大学，阿贡国家实验室，和伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校通过芝加哥量子交易所。理论计算机科学在量子计算领域成立后不久就为量子计算研究提供了重要的推动力，并发挥着核心作用在其发展过程中。计算复杂性，密码学和算法是研究合作的肥沃和自然领域的QCIS教职员工和CS系的理论教师在所有这些领域都有很强的影响力，有些人在他们的研究中触及了量子话题。 伊利诺伊州长期以来一直是科学计算和高性能计算（HPC）领域的杰出领导者。 在伊利诺伊州的科学计算小组内，系里的教师正在从事与量子计算和量子信息研究紧密相关的工作。 特别是，在量子算法的信号处理方面，还有一些有趣的工作要做。量子算法在信号去噪等任务中有一些非常有趣的应用，在各种ML任务中找到具体的应用非常有趣。 实用的量子计算不仅需要算法开发，还需要编程方面的实质性创新，系统和体系结构，伊利诺伊州CS也有一大批从事各种主题的教师，他们将成为QCIS教师研究员的优秀合作者。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查进行评估来支持的搜索.

Quantum Computing and Information Science (QCIS) is a priority area for growth at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the computer science department (Illinois CS), the Grainger College of Engineering, and the University. While other departments in engineering, including Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Physics, have faculty in this area, the CS department currently does not have any faculty actively pursuing quantum computing as their primary research area. This NSF QCIS Faculty Fellow award will enable Illinois CS to recruit a faculty member who will focus on QCIS research and who can lead the development and teaching of a quantum-focused curriculum for computer science students. In addition to having strong support in the Computer Science Department, the QCIS Faculty Fellow will benefit from major investments in QCIS by the Grainger College of Engineering and the State of Illinois. The Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology center (IQUIST) in the Grainger College of Engineering is a multi-disciplinary enterprise that brings together researchers from Physics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and other departments, to collaborate on a variety of quantum information related problems. One of the key thrusts of IQUIST is to build a distributed quantum processor network testbed which will provide a unique opportunity for faculty in computer science to leverage. The Discovery Partners Institute (DPI), recently established by the University of Illinois and the State of Illinois in the city of Chicago, will provide opportunities for future Illinois faculty members in QCIS to interact closely with students and researchers at the University of Chicago, Fermilab, Northwestern University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois at Chicago though the Chicago Quantum Exchange.Theoretical computer science has provided a significant impetus for quantum computing research soon after the inception of the field and plays a central role in its development. Computational complexity, cryptography and algorithms are fertile and natural areas of research collaboration for a QCIS Faculty Fellow and the theory faculty in the CS department have strong presence in all these areas and some have touched upon quantum topics in their research. Illinois has long been a preeminent leader in the fields of scientific computing and high-performance computing (HPC). Within the scientific computing group at Illinois, departmental faculty are pursuing work that is cohesive to research in quantum computation and quantum information. There is, in particular, interesting work to be done in signal processing with quantum algorithms. There have been some very interesting applications of quantum algorithms to tasks such as signal denoising, and finding concrete applications in various ML tasks is of much interest. Practical quantum computing requires not only algorithmic development but substantial innovations in programming, systems and architecture and here also Illinois CS has a large set of faculty working on a diverse set of topics that will be excellent collaborators for a QCIS Faculty Fellow.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.