2025 IEEE QTC Distinguished Award Winners
IEEE QTC Distinguished Synergy Award
The IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) Distinguished Synergy Award is presented annually to a Research Center, Institute, Consortium, or Partnership for outstanding contributions that exemplify an effective partnership between industry, government, and academia in the international quantum computing community. In this first call for the IEEE QTC Synergy Award, we were honored by outstanding nominations and selected four exemplary submissions to set the standard for this award.
The IEEE QTC Distinguished Synergy Awards will be presented at IEEE Quantum Week 2025 on Tuesday, September 2, at 5:00 pm, prior to the evening keynote, in the Kiva Auditorium.
2025 IEEE QTC Distinguished Synergy Award Winners
Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
Citation: “For exemplary leadership in forging an effective and globally impactful partnership between industry, government, and academia that accelerates the growth and success of the quantum economy.”
IBM Quantum
Citation: “For decades of leadership in advancing quantum computing from theory to global practice, fostering a diverse and collaborative ecosystem that accelerates innovation, commercialization, and societal impact worldwide.”
Enabling Practical Quantum Computing (EPiQC)
Citation: “For pioneering cross-layer quantum computing innovations and building a globally influential academic-industry-government network that accelerates the path to practical, scalable quantum technologies.”
Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation (HNCDI)
Citation: “For exemplary public-private collaboration that accelerates quantum technology adoption through impactful research, real-world applications, and global partnerships.”
2025 IEEE QTC Distinguished Synergy Award Committee
- Hausi Muller, University of Victoria (Chair)
- Candace Culhane, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
- Luu Nguyen, PsiQuantum
IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) Distinguished Early Career Award
The IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) Distinguished Early Career Award is presented annually to a scientist or engineer in the early stages of their post-PhD career who has made contributions above and beyond those considered normal for a person at such an early stage. For the inaugural IEEE QTC Distinguished Early Career Award, we received many outstanding nominations and identified three exceptional candidates to inaugurate this distinction.
The IEEE QTC Distinguished Career Awards will be presented at IEEE Quantum Week 2025 on Thursday, September 4, at 8:00 am MDT, before the morning keynote, in the Kiva Auditorium.
2025 IEEE QTC Distinguished Early Career Award Winners
Ali Javadi-Abhari, IBM Quantum
Yufei Ding, University of California, San Diego
Yongshan Ding, Yale University
Citation: “For outstanding contributions in quantum computing and engineering.”
2025 IEEE QTC Distinguished Early Career Award Committee
- Greg Byrd, NC State University (Chair)
- Bert de Jong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
- Travis Humble, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Laura Schulz, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) Distinguished QCE Technical Paper Award
The IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) annually presents the IEEE Quantum Week QTC QCE Distinguished Technical Paper Award to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper of the Technical Paper Tracks of the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) aka IEEE Quantum Week. The distinguished paper is selected by the QTC Distinguished Paper Award committee. This award honors exceptional research contributions, technical innovation, and significant impact in advancing the state of the art in Quantum Computing and Engineering.
The IEEE QTC Distinguished Technical Paper Award will be presented at IEEE Quantum Week 2025 on Wednesday, September 3, at 5:00 pm, prior to the evening keynote, in the Kiva Auditorium.
2025 IEEE QTC Distinguished QCE25 Technical Paper Award Winners
Chen-Yu Liu, KuanCheng Chen, Yi-Chien Chen, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Wei-Hao Huang, Wei-Jia Huang and Yen-Jui Chang
Citation: “For the QCE25 Technical Paper Best Paper entitled “Quantum-Enhanced Parameter-Efficient Learning for Typhoon Trajectory Forecasting.”
This paper will be presented at the QCE25 conference on Monday, September 1, 2025, at 4:00 pm MDT in the Pecos room. The paper is available on arxiv
www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.09395 and will appear in the QCE25 Proceedings.
2025 IEEE QTC Distinguished QCE25 Technical Paper Award Committee
- Yuri Alexeev, NVIDIA Corporation (Chair)
- Andrea Delgado, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
- Stephan Eidenbenz, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)