June 2025
- New Funding Award: We secured a $400,111 award from AFRL for our project “Towards Reliable and Secure Data-Driven Quantum Networking,” led by sole PI Samah Saeed.
December 2024
- NERSC AY 2025 DOE Mission Science Allocation Award: Our lab received the NERSC AY 2025 DOE Mission Science Allocation Award, providing crucial resources to advance our quantum computing and hardware security research.
November 2024
- Translational Research Excellence Award: We were honored with the Translational Research Excellence Across Disciplines Award by CCNY, receiving $35,000 to support interdisciplinary research in quantum computing.
- Gopika Kizhuvettil at IBM Quantum Developer Conference: Gopika Kizhuvettil, a second-year PhD student, was selected to participate in the IBM Quantum Developer Conference, an opportunity to collaborate with leading experts in quantum computing.
October 2024
- Best Poster Award: Our group’s research on “GNN-Driven Quantum Hardware Reliability: One for Many” won the Best Poster Award at the Quantum Computing Applications and Systems (QCAS) Workshop in New Jersey, showcasing the high quality of our work in quantum computing.
September 2024
- New Funding Award: We secured a $125,000 sub-award from the Department of Energy (DoE) to further our quantum computing research.
- NYC Quantum Hackathon: Prof. Saeed is co-organizing the NYC Quantum Hackathon in collaboration with NYU and Columbia University, aiming to foster innovation in quantum technologies and security.
- Student Success: Christian Rasmussen‘s team won the NYC Quantum Hackathon’s Cybersecurity Track, demonstrating the excellence of our students in cutting-edge quantum research.
July 2024
- NSF Travel Award: Georgios Ioannou received the NSF Student Travel Award to present his research at the ISVLSI’24 conference.
June 2024
- High School Research Program: We hosted Everett Eng and Eugenio Brianna, two talented high school students, who developed a model for optimizing quantum circuit fidelity, marking a key step in their introduction to quantum computing.
- Faculty Support for Undergraduate Research: Our group received the CCNY Initiative to Promote Academic Success in STEM, funding 2-3 undergraduate researchers for summer work on Noise-Aware Quantum Circuit Optimization.
- Undergraduate Research Excellence: Georgios Ioannou was admitted to the Data Science Master’s Program at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
May 2024
- NSF Travel Award: Christian Rasmussen received the NSF Student Travel Award to attend HOST’24, presenting his work on quantum computing and hardware security.
- Undergraduate Research Excellence: Georgios Ioannou was selected as Valedictorian of the CCNY Grove School of Engineering Class of 2024, recognizing his outstanding academic and research achievements.
January 2024
- GRTI R24 Funding: We were awarded $17,888.96 in GRTI R24 funding from the Grove School of Engineering, CCNY, to purchase new servers for our lab, enhancing research capabilities.
July 2023
- New Funding from Google: Our group secured $100,000 in funding from Google to support our work in quantum technologies and hardware security.
February 2023
- New Funding from DoE: We received $633,184 in new funding from the Department of Energy (DoE), with our share being $378,184, supporting our quantum computing research efforts.
November 2022
- CSAW 2022 Cybersecurity Competition: We won first place in the North American region of the AI vs. Human Hardware Security competition at CSAW 2022, focusing on hacking chips by injecting hard-to-detect Trojans.