New innovations touted to be "as big, if not bigger than, AI"
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Year: 2026
Congratulations to Yuan Ping for receiving an H.I. Romnes faculty fellowship!
Eighteen faculty have been honored with the H.I. Romnes Fellowships to recognize faculty with exceptional research contributions within their first six years from promotion to a tenured position. The award is named in recognition of the late WARF trustees president H.I. Romnes and comes with $60,000 that may be spent over five years.
WARF Named Professorships, Kellett Fellowships, and Romnes awards represent some of the most meaningful investments in the people who drive discovery at UW–Madison, according to Dorota Brzezinska, vice chancellor for research.
Congratulations Yuan!
Additional details can be found here.
Congratulations to Ben Woods for receiving a YIP young investigator award!
The Air Force Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) supports individual early-in-career scientists and engineers showing exceptional ability and promise for conducting basic research. The program’s objective is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering; enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators; and increase opportunities for the young investigator to recognize the Air Force and Space Force mission and related challenges in science and engineering.
YIP awards are funded up to $150,000 per year for three years, for a total of $450,000.
Congratulations Ben!
Additional award details can be found here.
Matt Otten receives an NSF CAREER award!
Congrats to Matthew Otten, Assistant Professor of Physics, for being selected for an NSF CAREER award. The 5-year award will support Otten and his group’s research on achieving practical quantum advantage for electronic structure on …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2026/07/10/matt-otten-is-awarded-an-nsf-career-award/Entrepreneurship Hub announces SEED grant recipients
Six projects across four University of Wisconsin–Madison schools and colleges have received annual State Economic Engagement & Development (SEED) funding, totaling $550,000. The SEED Research Program funds are designated by the state legislature and administered by the Wisconsin Entrepreneurship Hub. SEED grants allow UW–Madison faculty and academic staff who are co-founders in a Wisconsin company to engage in innovative research, generate additional private and public sector support for their research …
Read the full article at: https://entrepreneurship.wisc.edu/2026/07/01/entrepreneurship-hub-announces-seed-grant-recipients/Oh, the places quantum might go! – Read the WSJ article by Matt Otten
Oh, the places quantum might go! – Read the WSJ article by Matt Otten
Oh, the places quantum might go! – Read the WSJ article by Matt Otten
WQI faculty highlight the benefits of quantum technologies during the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s American Economic Interest Summit
WQI faculty highlight the benefits of quantum technologies during the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s American Economic Interest Summit
Professors Jennifer Choy and Matthew Otten spoke at the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s American Economic Interest Summit which took place in Brookfield, WI on May 13. The applications of quantum computing and quantum sensing were presented to business leaders from across Wisconsin that gathered to explore key national priorities, including national security, energy, and emerging technologies.
“We are making breakthroughs in these technologies in Wisconsin … many of those have led to commercialization,” Wisconsin Technology Council President Maggie Brickerman said yesterday. “So the goal of this, of course, is to impact the world, and one way to do that is getting technologies out of the labs and into companies.”
WQI is represented at the annual UW-Madison Day at the Capitol!
WQI is represented at the annual UW-Madison Day at the Capitol!
A successful day for WQI at the WI Capitol!
The annual UW–Madison Day at the Capitol event took place on April 29 and representatives from the Wisconsin Quantum Institute participated and had some fun as well!
Postdoctoral Researcher Katerina Gratsea presented research on Achieving Utility-Scale Applications on Quantum Computers.
Mark Eriksson, Jennifer Choy, Kyle Joseph and Ona Ambrozaite highlighted the importance of Quantum Technologies for Wisconsin.
Researchers at UW-Madison are driving transformative advances in quantum science and technology that have the potential to strengthen innovation, economic growth, and competitiveness across multiple sectors throughout Wisconsin.
Congratulations to Guizhong Luo for winning the 2026 Best Undergraduate Research Poster Award!
Congratulations to Guizhong Luo for winning the 2026 Best Undergraduate Research Poster Award!
The Wisconsin Quantum Institute participated in the annual ECE undergraduate research symposium today.
9 undergraduate posters were judged in the WQI category.
Guizhong Luo won the prize for his research poster titled: Energy-Scaled Zero-Noise Extrapolation for Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Code.
He conducted research with Prof. Otten.
