Core Partners

National Laboratories

• Oak Ridge National Laboratory  provides experience in the area of scientific applications to deliver scientific discoveries and technical breakthroughs needed to realize solutions in energy and national security and provide economic benefit to the nation. Their partnerships with other US Department of Energy laboratories and programs, universities, and industry to pair their strengths with others for outstanding contributions to science.

Industry Core Partners

• IBM announced a leap forward in quantum computing performance, scale, and adoption. Discover the latest software and hardware breakthroughs that are now putting quantum advantage within reach.

• Quantinuum a combination of Honeywell Quantum Solutions and Cambridge Quantum, is an integrated quantum computing company that has released next generation quantum products, including trapped-ion quantum computers, quantum computing enhanced cybersecurity and quantum computational chemistry software.
• Google Quantum AI will guide the curriculum and workforce development of the ASU Quantum Collaborative through hands-on resources such as its open-source quantum programming framework called Cirq and the Quantum Virtual Machine
  
• SandboxAQ is developing business applications that combine the power of AI and quantum technology — dubbed AQ.
  
• CR8DL an artificial intelligence and cloud computing company, is interested in quantum simulator optimization and quantum combined with high-performance computing.

Academic Core Partners

• Purdue University with its Rosen Center for Advanced Computing and the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, pairs high-performance computing with quantum expertise and broad regional integration.
• Tecnológico de Monterrey is the top private university in Mexico and a longstanding ASU partner, brings broad STEM expertise and machine learning prowess.

• The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is poised to bring its long-standing experience in cybersecurity, and AI and data science expertise to deal with the challenges that quantum presents to protect data and infrastructure. This includes its broad network of partners in their School of Data Science and university research institutes focused on AI and cloud/edge computing.
  
• Virginia Tech contributes expertise in quantum information science, producing research in key areas including quantum computing, simulation, networking, and cryptography and pioneering educational programs, facilitated by its Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering.

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