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D-Wave 2000Q research opportunities archive

Historical archive of the USRA, Standard Chartered Bank, NYSTEC, and NASA request-for-proposals program for experiments on the D-Wave quantum annealer hosted at NASA Ames Research Center.

Research on D-Wave 2000Q

USRA, Standard Chartered Bank, NYSTEC, and NASA solicited proposals to run experiments on the D-Wave quantum annealer hosted at Ames Research Center. Proposals were evaluated on their merit across multiple factors, as detailed in the legacy Cycle 4 Request for Proposals.

The research program is closed. This page preserves the historical project record from the legacy RIACS Quantum site.

Cycle 4

Submissions for Cycle 4 of the research program are closed.

  • Quantum Computation for Wireless Networks. PI / point of contact: Jamieson, Kyle; affiliation: Princeton University; team members: Minsung Kim, Srikar Kasi, Abhishek Singh.
  • Spectral Gap Analysis for Quantum Surrogate Models. PI / point of contact: Kais, Sabre; affiliation: Purdue University; team members: Blake Anthony Wilson, Vivek Dixit, Raja Selvarajan.
  • Boltzmann Machine Learning via Quantum Annealing for Materials Design. PI / point of contact: Sundararaghavan, Veera; affiliation: University of Michigan; team members: Siddhartha Srivastava, Gurmeet Singh.

Cycle 3

Submissions for Cycle 3 of the research program are closed.

  • Reverse quantum annealing approach to portfolio optimization problems. PI / point of contact: Kondratyev, Alexei; affiliation: Standard Chartered Bank; team members: Luke Brereton.
  • Deep Learning. PI / point of contact: Spedalieri, Federico; affiliation: Information Science Institute, University of Southern California; team members: Jarrett Smalley.
  • Benchmarking New Planted Solution Instances on the D-Wave 2000Q. PI / point of contact: Tameem, Albash; affiliation: Information Science Institute, University of Southern California.
  • A Study on Quantum Annealing of Hadamard-Ising Systems. PI / point of contact: Suksmono, Andriyan Bayu; affiliation: Institut Teknologi Bandung; team members: Hitoshi Ishikawa, Yuichiro Minato, PEZY Computing, MDR Inc. Resources: Resource 1.
  • Studies of machine learning and quantum algorithms on the D-Wave 2000Q. PI / point of contact: Novotny, Mark; affiliation: Mississippi State University; team members: Yaroslav Koshka, J. Spencer Hall, Bhavika Ghanshyambhai Bhalgamiya, Nicholas Ezzell. Resources: Resource 1, Resource 2.
  • Quantum Adiabatic Implementation of the Quadratic Traveling Salesman Problem (QTSP) and Applications. PI / point of contact: Tandon, Prateek; affiliation: 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. PI / point of contact: Sundararaghavan, Veera; affiliation: University of Michigan; team members: Siddhartha Srivastava, Arunabha Mohan Roy. Resources: Resource 1, Resource 2, Resource 3.
  • QUBO formulation for CMOP for execution in D-Wave machines. PI / point of contact: Ricardo Martinis de Abreu Silva; affiliation: Federal University of Pernambuco; team members: Nicolas Melo de Oliveira, Wilson Rosa de Oliveira, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco. Resources: Resource 1.
  • Transforming 5G Massive MIMO Communication with Quantum Computation. PI / point of contact: Jamieson, Kyle; affiliation: Princeton University; team members: Minsung Kim. Resources: Resource 1, Resource 2.
  • Solving integer programming problems using quantum annealing and algebraic geometry. PI / point of contact: Tayur, Sridhar; affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University; team members: Raouf Dridi, Hedayat Alghassi. Resources: Resource 1, Resource 2.
  • Noise Characterization and Control for Adiabatic Quantum Computation. PI / point of contact: Quiroz, Gregory; affiliation: 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. PI / point of contact: Caputo, Davide; affiliation: Data Reply s.r.l.; team members: Fazzi Giovanni, Magagnini Marco. Resources: Resource 1.
  • Optimizing Air Traffic Control Paths. PI / point of contact: Scott, James; affiliation: Noblis. Resources: Resource 1.
  • Optimization with Machine Learning and Annealing and QC. PI / point of contact: Shukla, Hemant; affiliation: Siemens.

Cycle 2

Submissions for Cycle 2 of the research program are closed.

  • Software framework for novice users of a quantum optimization system. PI / point of contact: Yianni Gamvros; affiliation: 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. PI / point of contact: Warburton, Paul, Prof.; affiliation: 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. PI / point of contact: Shroff, Gautam; affiliation: 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. PI / point of contact: Callum Howard; affiliation: QxBranch; team members: Dan Padilha, Duncan Fletcher, John Kelly.
  • Computation of Persistent Homology using Quantum Annealing. PI / point of contact: Jackson, Mark; affiliation: 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. PI / point of contact: Warren, Richard; affiliation: Pennsylvania State University.
  • Finding Golomb Rulers with Quantum Annealing. PI / point of contact: van Hoeve, Willem-Jan; affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Quantum Annealing for Real-World Applications: Boltzmann machines and heterogeneous quantum computing. PI / point of contact: Dulny III, Joseph; affiliation: Booz Allen Hamilton; team members: Gideon Bass, Vaibhaw Kumar.
  • Toward Using a Quantum Annealer for Diagnostic Reasoning and Creating a Diagnostic Benchmark. PI / point of contact: Feldman, Alexander; affiliation: PARC; team members: Rui Abreu, Johan de Kleer.
  • Experimental Determination of Set Cover by Pairs Problem using Quantum Annealing. PI / point of contact: Kais, Sabre; affiliation: Purdue University; team members: Shuxian Jiang, Yudong Cao, Debbie Perouli, Marquette University.

Cycle 1

Submissions for Cycle 1 of the research program are closed.

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