Prof. Rodney Van Meter Lab Researchers Receive Two 2nd Place Honors at IEEE Quantum Week 2025 Best Paper Awards

Congratulations to Professor Rodney Van Meter (Faculty of Environment and Information Studies), 2nd year Graduate Student Natchapol Patamawisut and Project Assistant Professor Amin Taherkhani (both Graduate School of Media and Governance) for winning two Best Paper Awards (2nd Place in each selected track) at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Quantum Week 2025.

The IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (also known as the IEEE Quantum Week or "QCE") is a large-scale conference that brings together more than 1,500 participants from diverse backgrounds, including quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, and students. Winning two Best Paper Awards is an outstanding achievement in light of the growing pool of annual applicants and increasingly competitive landscape of the QCE awards.

IEEE Quantum Week accepts submissions of technical papers in multiple specialized tracks, of which the authors received the award in two: the Quantum Algorithms (QALG) track, which focuses on the development and theory of quantum algorithms, and the Quantum Networking and Communication (QNET) track, which covers quantum networking, quantum communication, and distributed quantum computing. The papers awarded in the QALG and QNET tracks were led by Patamawisut and Taherkhani, respectively, both members of Prof. Van Meter's research group.

Titles and authors of the award-winning papers:

Quantum Circuit Design for Decoded Quantum Interferometry
Natchapol Patamawisut, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdušek, Rodney Van Meter

Automatic Configuration Protocols for Optical Quantum Networks
Amin Taherkhani, Andrew Todd, Kentaro Teramoto, Rodney Van Meter, Shota Nagayama

Comments from Patamawisut:

This work presents a practical circuit architecture and resource estimate for Decoded Quantum Interferometry (DQI), demonstrating competitive performance and clarity of implementation that we hope will facilitate broader adoption.

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Natchapol Patamawisut, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdušek, Rodney Van Meter

Comments from Taherkhani:

I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my co-authors for their contributions to developing protocols for channel discovery in optical quantum networks. I am also grateful to my colleagues, including researchers, students, staff, and professors at Keio SFC, as well as members of the Nagayama Moonshot Project, for their collaboration and support. I hope this work contributes to ongoing efforts toward data center-scale quantum networks. As we stand at the dawn of quantum networking, Keio University's role in advancing this technology underscores our responsibility to pursue excellence in its development for the benefit of society.

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Amin Taherkhani, Rodney Van Meter, Andrew Todd, Shota Nagayama

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