Events

2025 Open Quantum Initiative Research Symposium

July 29, 2025

When: Tuesday, July 29, 2025 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Where: ERC 161 & Atrium, 5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637

Description: Join the fourth cohort of Open Quantum Initiative fellows as they present summaries of their summer quantum information science and engineering research. CQE members and partners are invited to attend, meet the fellows, and share opportunities for the following summer.

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Agenda

Time
9:00 am – 9:15 am CT	Welcome Emily Easton, Director of Education & Workforce Development, Chicago Quantum Exchange
9:15 am – 11:00 am CT	Group 1 Presentations Ali Bo Khamseen (Purdue); Atish Bhungalia (Purdue); Bikrant Bhattacharyya (Fermilab); Po-Yu Chen (Purdue); Carl Audric Guia (UChicago); Cecilia DiSibio (Argonne); Chong-Yi Su (OSU)
11:00 am – 11:15 am CT	Break
11:15 pm – 1:00 pm CT	Group 2 Presentations Chelsie Hadley (Argonne); Elio Thadhani (UIUC); Fataiya Salifu (OSU); Itzel Ruiz Barrera (UW); Jade Ocampo (UIUC), James-Lucius Okenwa (UIUC); Jayden Wool (Argonne)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CT	Lunch
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm CT	Group 3 Presentations Krist Ha (Argonne); Madeline Dean (UIUC); Mariano Alcalde (Purdue); Mireya Valentin (UChicago); Nishna Aerabati (Fermilab); Rishi Nelakurti (OSU); Valeria Diaz Moreno (Argonne); Vivien Yan (UW)
4:00 pm – 4:15 pm CT	Introduction to Northwestern Fellows Ahnnika Hess; Jiani Fu; Kaiya Jones; Noble Agyeman-Bobie; Ksawery Dabrowiecki
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm CT	Closing Remarks Leah Weiss, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago

Meet the fellows:

Home Institution: The University of Texas at Austin

Major: Physics

OQI Institution: Purdue University

Faculty Mentor: Hadiseh Alaeian

Research Topic: Dynamics of Coupled Rydberg Excitons in Dielectric Waveguides

Home Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Major: Physics

OQI Institution: Purdue University

Faculty Mentor: Hadiseh Alaeian and Shengwang Du

Research Topic: High-resolution photoluminescence mapping of solid-state quantum emitters

Home Institution: California Institute of Technology

Major: Physics

OQI Institution: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Faculty Mentor: Doga M. Kurkcuoglu

Research Topic: Generating Bosonic Codes through Subgroup Orbits

Home Institution: Purdue University

Major: Physics and Mathematics

OQI Institution: Purdue University

Faculty Mentor: Erica Carlson

Research Topic: Predicting Critical Exponents for Transport in Mott Insulator-Metal Transition Materials

Home Institution: Harvard University

Major: Physics and Astrophysics

OQI Institution: University of Chicago

Faculty Mentor: Shuolong Yang

Research Topic: Simulating Moiré Minibands in Twisted Bi2Se3 Thin Films

Home Institution: Colorado School of Mines

Major: Engineering Physics

OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory

Faculty Mentor: Youngjun Ahn

Research Topic: Development of Optical Scanning Microscopy Setup for Quantum Material Imaging

Home Institution: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Major: Electrical Engineering and Physics

OQI Institution: The Ohio State University

Faculty Mentor: Ron Reano

Research Topic: The Effect of In-Field Eavesdropping in Deployed Time-Bin Encoded BB84 QKD Protocol

Learn more about the Open Quantum Initiative Undergraduate Fellowship.

Questions about the event can be directed to quantum@uchicago.edu.

Home Institution: Western Illinois University

Major: Physics

OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory

Faculty Mentor: Supratik Guha

Research Topic: The Erbium Brightness Project

Home Institution: Harvey Mudd College

Major: Physics

OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Mentor: Eric Chitambar

Research Topic: Exploring alternative quantum teleportation and dense coding protocols utilizing noisy channels

Home Institution: Washington University in Saint Louis

Major: Electrical Engineering

OQI Institution: The Ohio State University

Faculty Mentor: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin

Research Topic: Predicting the Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Copper Phthalocyanine

Home Institution: Illinois Institute of Technology

Major: Applied Physics

OQI Institution: University of Wisconsin–Madison

Faculty Mentor: Randall Goldsmith

Research Topic: Sol-Gel Coating of Optical Fibers for Optically Tunable Fabry-Peírot cavities

Home Institution: Wilbur Wright College

Major: Mechanical Engineering

OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Mentor: Daniel Shoemaker

Research Topic: Synthesis and Characterization of NaClO3

Home Institution: Case Western Reserve University

Major: Mathematics and Physics

OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Mentor: Mikhael Backlund

Research Topic: NV Centers in Diamond Spectrometry for Nanoscale NMR Spectrometry

Home Institution: Northwestern University

Major: Computer Science and Physics

OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory

Faculty Mentor: Jeff Larson

Research Topic: Hardware-Aware Benchmarking of Quantum Circuits Across Intel Spin Qubit Platforms

Home Institution: Miami University

Major: Physics and Mathematics

OQI Institution: Argonne National Laboratory

Faculty Mentor: Yi Li

Research Topic: Probing Magnetic Oscillations with an NV Center Microscope

Home Institution: Smith College

Major: Physics and Astronomy

OQI Institution: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Mentor: Paul Kwiat

Research Topic: "Silicon Avalanche Photodiode Single-Photon Detector Characterization for Experimental Tests of Statistical Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics"