News
2024:
January 2024: VTQ is excited to welcome the new director, Steve Flammia, of our sister center at the VT Innovation Campus, the Center for Quantum Architecture and Software Development, to the Virginia Tech quantum community! Read more about it here.
January 2024: VTQ welcomes new faculty members Arpit Dua (Physics), who starts this month, and also Sumeet Khatri (Computer Science), who starts in August!
2023:
December 2023: VTQ is in the CBS Richmond news!
November 2023: Congratulations to VTQ Director Sophia Economou for being named an APS Fellow!
November 2023: See VTQ Director Sophia Economou's interview with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership.
October 2023: Jean Heremans and VT Engineering collaborators win a $10 million Department of Defense grant to establish a center on sensing and cyber-physical systems! Read more here.
August 2023: VTQ welcomes new faculty member Seva Ivanov (National Security Institute and Department of Physics)!
August 2023: Congratulations to Linbo Shao and Yizheng Zhu on their new $2.4 million DARPA project on quantum sensing! Read more about it here.
July/August 2023: The third annual VTQ/C2QA High-School Summer School on Quantum Information Science and Engineering had a record number of participants from all over the United States and beyond!
July 2023: Prof. Wayne Scales establishes collaborations with historically Black colleges and universities to train faculty members, acquire lab equipment, and develop curricula to meet the growing demand for a quantum-trained workforce. https://www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-build-a-blueprint-for-a-diverse-quantum-workforce
May 2023: Congratulations to Dr. Fei Zhuang for completing her PhD in Physics!
April 2023: Registration for the VTQ/C2QA High-School Summer School on Quantum Information Science and Engineering is now open
February 2023: VTQ holds its first annual symposium on campus and at Blacksburg Wine Lab
2022:
VTQ Director Sophia Economou was named the T. Marshall Hahn Chair in Physics
December 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Harper Grimsley for completing his PhD in Chemistry!
December 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Bikun Li for completing his PhD in Physics!
October 2022: Congratulations to Dr. Sam Barron for completing her PhD in Physics!
VTQ welcomes new faculty members Charles Cao (Physics) and Atul Mantri (Computer Science), who are starting in Spring 2023, and also Tianci Zhou (Physics), who is starting in Fall 2023!