U.S. Air Force and NSF Award $1 Million in Grants to University of Massachusetts Lowell Professor

The grants were made in two separate early career awards to Professor Archana Kamal at the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMASS Lowell). The first award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is for $450,000 over three years to study tunable quantum dissipation. The goal of this research is to correct quantum errors by controlling the environment seen by a quantum system rather than controlling the system directly. The second grant is for $557,000 over five years from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The objective of both of these research efforts is to mitigate errors and improve decoherence times that can arise in quantum systems so that they are more able to compute correct solutions. For more information about these awards, you can view a news release available on the UMass Lowell website here.

April 9, 2021