NSF Org:	CCF Division of Computing and Communication Foundations
Recipient:	REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, THE
Initial Amendment Date:	May 14, 2020
Latest Amendment Date:	November 4, 2022
Award Number:	2013571
Award Instrument:	Continuing Grant
Program Manager:	Elizabeth Behrman ebehrman@nsf.gov  (703)292-7049 CCF  Division of Computing and Communication Foundations CSE  Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date:	July 1, 2020
End Date:	June 30, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$749,246.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$749,246.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2020 = $250,000.00 FY 2021 = $499,246.00
History of Investigator:	Clark Nguyen (Principal Investigator) ctnguyen@eecs.berkeley.edu John Canny (Former Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	University of California-Berkeley 1608 4TH ST STE 201 BERKELEY CA  US  94710-1749 (510)643-3891
Sponsor Congressional District:	12
Primary Place of Performance:	University of California-Berkeley Sponsored Projects Office BERKELEY CA  US  94710-1749
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	12
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	GS3YEVSS12N6
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):	FET-Fndtns of Emerging Tech, Quantum Computing
Primary Program Source:	01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	057Z, 7928
Program Element Code(s):	089Y00, 792800
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

Quantum computers hold out the promise of revolutionizing the landscape of computing and society. UC-Berkeley is deeply committed to playing a major part in this revolution, by rapidly scaling its existing effort in this field, leveraging its existing interdisciplinary centers, BQIC (Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center) and CQCS (Center for Quantum Coherent Science), as well as close proximity of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)---home of the $30M DOE quantum testbed effort. The new Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow (QCIS-FF) hire in computer science, funded by this award, will expand the exploration of novel quantum algorithms and protocols for benchmarking and verifying quantum computers. It will also help to meet an exploding student demand for courses in QIS.

UC-Berkeley is poised at a singular moment in the field of quantum computing, with small to medium-scale quantum computers on the verge of becoming a reality. Moving forward, what is called for is an interdisciplinary effort that brings together experimental and theoretical physicists and computer scientists working on the full stack from experimental realization to benchmarking and quantum error correction, to designing quantum algorithms and applications and protocols for verifying quantum computations. The QCIS-FF award will help coalesce this interdisciplinary effort.

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.

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