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Request for Proposal

USRA, Standard Chartered Bank, NYSTEC, and NASA are soliciting proposals to run experiments on the D-Wave quantum annealer hosted at Ames Research Center. Proposals will be evaluated on their merit across multiple factors, as detailed in the Request For Proposals.

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  • Submissions for Cycle 4 of the research program are currently closed.

    Previous RFP projects

    Quantum Computation for Wireless Networks
    RFP Cycle 4
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Jamieson, Kyle
    Princeton University
    Team members : Minsung Kim , Srikar Kasi , Abhishek Singh
    Spectral Gap Analysis for Quantum Surrogate Models
    RFP Cycle 4
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Kais, Sabre
    Purdue University
    Team members : Blake Anthony Wilson , Vivek Dixit , Raja Selvarajan
    Boltzmann Machine Learning via Quantum Annealing for Materials Design
    RFP Cycle 4
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Sundararaghavan, Veera
    University of Michigan
    Team members : Siddhartha Srivastava , Gurmeet Singh

  • Submissions for Cycle 3 of the research program are currently closed.

    Previous RFP projects

    Reverse quantum annealing approach to portfolio optimization problems
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Kondratyev, Alexei
    Standard Chartered Bank
    Team members : Luke Brereton
    Deep Learning
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Spedalieri, Federico
    Information Science Institute, University of Southern California
    Team members : Jarrett Smalley
    Benchmarking New Planted Solution Instances on the D-Wave 2000Q
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Tameem, Albash
    Information Science Institute, University of Southern California
    A Study on Quantum Annealing of Hadamard-Ising Systems
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Suksmono, Andriyan Bayu
    Institut Teknologi Bandung
    Team members : Hitoshi Ishikawa , Yuichiro Minato
    PEZY Computing , MDR Inc.
    Resources
    Studies of machine learning and quantum algorithms on the D-Wave 2000Q
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Novotny, Mark
    Mississippi State University
    Team members : Yaroslav Koshka , J. Spencer Hall , Bhavika Ghanshyambhai Bhalgamiya , Nicholas Ezzell
    Resources
    Quantum Adiabatic Implementation of the Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem (QTSP) and Applications
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Tandon, Prateek
    UC San Diego
    Team members : Alex Mitev , Stanley Lam , Ben Shih , Zhiyang Ong
    University of Toronto , Texas A&M University
    Hybrid Classical-Quantum approach for studying elasto-chemical phase transformation
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Sundararaghavan, Veera
    University of Michigan
    Team members : Siddhartha Srivastava , Arunabha Mohan Roy
    Resources
    QUBO formulation for CMOP for execution in D-Wave machines
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Ricardo Martinis de Abreu Silva
    Federal University of Pernambuco
    Team members : Nicolas Melo de Oliveira , Wilson Rosa de Oliveira
    Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
    Resources
    Transforming 5G Massive MIMO Communication with Quantum Computation
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Jamieson, Kyle
    Princeton University
    Team members : Minsung Kim
    Resources
    Solving integer programming problems using quantum annealing and algebraic geometry
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Tayur, Sridhar
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Team members : Raouf Dridi , Hedayat Alghassi
    Resources
    Noise Characterization and Control for Adiabatic Quantum Computation
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Quiroz, Gregory
    John Hopkins University
    Team members : Kevin Schultz , Gerardo Paz-Silva
    Applied Physics Laboratory , Griffith University
    Accuracy and minor embedding in subqubo decomposition with fully connected large problems: a case study about number partitioning and qbsolv
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Caputo, Davide
    Data Reply s.r.l.
    Team members : Fazzi Giovanni , Magagnini Marco
    Resources
    Optimizing Air Traffic Control Paths
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Scott, James
    Noblis
    Resources
    Optimization with Machine Learning and Annealing and QC
    RFP Cycle 3
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Shukla, Hemant
    Siemens

  • Submissions for Cycle 2 of the research program are currently closed.

    Previous RFP projects

    Software framework for novice users of a quantum optimization system
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Yianni Gamvros
    Aerovar Research
    Team members : Asier Ozaeta , Randall Correll , Matt Johnson , Kin-Joe Sham , Gordon Eubank
    Beyond Ising codes: Quantum Annealing for Hamming, Low Density Parity Check and Turbo codes
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Warburton, Paul, Prof.
    University College London
    Team members : Nicholas Chancellor , Stefan Zohren , Simon Benjamin , Stephen Roberts
    University of Oxford
    Integrating AI-Planning and Machine-learning using Quantum Sampling
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Shroff, Gautam
    TCS Research
    Team members : Lovekesh Vig , Ashwin Srinivasan , Parag Singla , Siddhartha Sengupta , C. Anantaram , Anirban Chakraborti , Shripad Salsingikar , Sudhir Sinha , Harshad Khadlikar , Puneet Agrawal
    Birla Institute of Technology , Indian Institute of Technology , Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Quantifying Deep Learning Applicability to Quantum Hardware
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Callum Howard
    QxBranch
    Team members : Dan Padilha , Duncan Fletcher , John Kelly
    Computation of Persistent Homology using Quantum Annealing
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Jackson, Mark
    Fiat Physica
    Team members : Gary Shiu , Yoshihiro Kawaoka , Gabriele Neumann , Yanzia Zhang , Jan Ellenberg
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
    The Traveling Salesman Problem on a Quantum Annealing Computer
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Warren, Richard
    Pennsylvania State University
    Finding Golomb Rulers with Quantum Annealing
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : van Hoeve, Willem-Jan
    Carnegie Mellon University
    Quantum Annealing for Real-World Applications: Boltzmann machines and heterogeneous quantum computing
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Dulny III, Joseph
    Booz Allen Hamilton
    Team members : Gideon Bass , Vaibhaw Kumar
    Toward Using a Quantum Annealer for Diagnostic Reasoning and Creating a Diagnostic Benchmark
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Feldman, Alexander
    PARC
    Team members : Rui Abreu , Johan de Kleer
    Experimental Determination of Set Cover by Pairs Problem using Quantum Annealing
    RFP Cycle 2
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Kais, Sabre
    Purdue University
    Team members : Shuxian Jiang , Yudong Cao , Debbie Perouli
    Marquette University

  • Submissions for Cycle 1 of the research program are currently closed.

    Previous RFP projects

    How do you know if your adiabatic quantum computer is working correctly & operating as an adiabatic quantum annealing computer?
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Novotny, Mark
    Mississippi State University
    Resources
    Quantum Annealing in Driven Open many-body Systems: simulating adiabatic computation on a real quantum computer
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Rossini, Davide
    Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
    Team members : Rosario Fazi , Giuseppe Santoro , Vlatko Vedral , Davide Venturelli
    International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy , Oxford University, UK , National University of Singapore , NASA QuAIL
    Quantum Sampling Algorithms for Classical Batch-Mode Active Learning
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Meyer, David
    University of California, San Diego
    Team members : Tina Yu
    Classification with Graph Similarity for small molecules using an Adiabatic Quantum Computer
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Hernandez, Maritza
    University of British Columbia
    Team members : Arman Zaribafiyan , Mohammad Naghibi
    University of Calgary
    Solving partition problems through adiabatic quantum optimization
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Venegas-Andraca, Salvador
    Autonomous State of Mexico University
    Team members : William de la Cruz-de los Santos , Marco Lanzagorta , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz
    Tecnológico de Monterrey , US Naval Research Laboratory , NASA QuAIL
    Server Consolidation on D-Wave
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Trummer, Immanuel
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
    Team members : Christoph Koch
    Resources
    Designing & testing hard optimization problems for quantum speedup
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Hen, Itay
    Information Science Institute, University of Southern California
    A quantum annealing approach for Biclustering based on a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Model
    RFP Cycle 1
    Principle Investigator / Point of Contact : Farinelli, Allesandro
    University of Verona
    Team members : Lorenzo Bottarelli , Manuele Bicego , Matteo Denitto , Alessandra Di Pierro