The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has become the first Indian institution to join the IBM Quantum Network.
As one among the 180 members of the network, a global community of Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, academic institutions and research laboratories, the institute aims at advancing quantum computing, skill development and research for Indian industries.
The Institute will have cloud-based access to IBM’s most advanced quantum computing systems and quantum expertise to explore practical applications. The institute’s Centre for Quantum Information, Communication and Computing (CquICC) will focus on core algorithms in research areas such as quantum machine learning, quantum optimisation and applications research in finance.
