The CQE honored five people with poster session awards at the eighth annual Chicago Quantum Summit on November 3, 2025, in downtown Chicago. Seventy-six people from 12 Midwestern institutions participated in the contest, which was part of a reception co-presented by the Consulate General of Canada in Chicago.
The winners were:
First place, overall: Colin Lualdi, graduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Title: “Nanometer-scale quantum interferometry via extreme energy entanglement”
Second place, overall: Qiaohong Wang, graduate student at University of Chicago. Title: “Sample-based quantum diagonalization as parallel fragment solvers for the localized active space self-consistent field method”
Third place, overall: Tian-Xing Zheng, postdoctoral researcher at University of Chicago. Title: “A Surface Molecular Qubit”
Best graduate student poster: Shannon Tan, graduate student at Northwestern University. Title: “Active Polarization Stabilization in Quantum Wrapper Networking”
Best undergraduates student poster: Cliff Sun, undergraduate student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Title: “Multiple-nanowire superconducting quantum interference devices: critical currents, symmetries, and vorticity stability regions”
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to all who participated.