Education DCL: EAGER: Experiential Learning Platform and Curricular Modules for Quantum Computing Security and Privacy Education

量子计算是一项革命性的技术，因为它在某些计算任务上比经典计算范式具有指数级加速的优势。如今，许多供应商为研究人员提供对物理量子计算机的云访问，以设计、实现和优化量子算法。然而，随着对网络基础设施的恶意攻击盛行，这种基于云的量子经典模型给量子计算系统带来了重大的安全和隐私问题。培养具有量子计算专业知识的熟练网络安全专业人员变得势在必行。然而，由于缺乏整合量子计算和网络安全与隐私主题的教育材料，这是具有挑战性的。该项目通过开发一套全面的课程模块和带有动手实验室的体验式学习平台来填补这一空白，以支持量子计算系统安全与隐私(QuanSP)教育和大规模劳动力发展。该项目团队正在开发用于集成多学科量子计算和网络安全教育的动手实验室和课程模块。它允许学生通过实验实验室和互动课程模块学习两门传统上互不相关的学科。这些材料结合了QuanSP的社会技术方面，以提供对主题的全面了解。可视化驱动的实验室平台提供的边看边做的学习体验促进了学习者对量子计算安全和隐私的系统思考。该项目进一步提供了实践机会，以实施和创建复杂的安全和隐私设计策略，以对抗针对基于云的量子计算生态系统中不同层的对手威胁。项目组正在将发展纳入不同级别的课程，并通过外联活动将成果传播给外地更广泛的社区，以促进全系统战略规划的研究和教育。调查人员致力于扩大妇女和少数族裔的参与，让她们作为本科生和研究生参与该项目。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 a revolutionary technology due to its advantage of exponential speedup in certain computational tasks compared with the classical computing paradigm. A number of vendors nowadays provide cloud-based access to physical quantum computers for researchers to design, implement, and optimize quantum algorithms. However, with prevailing malicious attacks to cyber infrastructure, this cloud-based quantum-classical model introduces significant security and privacy concerns to quantum computing systems. It becomes imperative to cultivate skilled cybersecurity professionals with expertise in quantum computing. However, this is challenging due to the lack of educational material that integrates both quantum computing and cybersecurity and privacy subjects. This project fills this gap by developing a comprehensive set of curricular modules and an experiential learning platform with hands-on labs to support quantum computing systems security and privacy (QuanSP) education and workforce development at scale.The project team is developing hands-on labs and curricular modules for integrated multidisciplinary quantum computing and cybersecurity education. It allows students to learn two traditionally disconnected subjects with experimentation labs and engaging curricular modules. These materials incorporate socio-technical aspects of QuanSP to provide a holistic understanding of the subject matter. The learning-by-seeing-and-doing experience offered by the visualization-driven lab platform fosters systematic thinking of learners on quantum computing security and privacy. The project further provides hands-on opportunities to implement and create sophisticated security- and privacy-by-deign strategies to counteract adversarial threats targeting different layers in the cloud-based quantum computing ecosystem. The project team is integrating the developments into curricula at different levels and disseminating the outcomes to the broader community in the field through outreach activities to advance QuanSP research and education. The investigators are committed to broadening the participation of women and minorities by involving them as undergraduate and graduate student researchers in the project.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.