Participants
Confirmed and tentative attendees
| Name | Institution | Area of expertise |
| Don Towsley | UMass Amherst | classical and quantum networking |
| Lizhong Zheng | MIT | Information theory, statistical learning |
| Mark Wilde (remote) | Cornell | quantum information theory |
| Hakan Tureci | Princeton | Reservoir computing, superconducting qubits |
| Dirk Englund | MIT | Optical ML, photonic integrated circuits, color centers |
| Nathan Killoran | Xanadu | Quantum ML, variational optimization, photonic models |
| Saikat Guha | UArizona | Quantum enhanced sensing and imaging |
| Narayanan Rengaswamy (remote) | UArizona | Quantum error correction theory |
| Quntao Zhuang | USC | Quantum intelligent sensors |
| Liang Jiang | UChicago | Error correction, quantum sensing, qRAMs |
| Jungsang Kim | IonQ/Duke | Trapped ion quantum computing, quantum ML |
| Stefan Krastanov | UMass Amherst | Entanglement distillation, quantum simulation |
| Derya Cansever | Army Research Office | Network science, control theory |
| Brian Kirby | Army Research Lab | Creation and distribution of entanglement |
| Prithwish Basu | Raytheon BBN | Network science, network communication theory |
| Mihir Bhaskar | Amazon | Color center qubits, spin photon interfaces |
| Alex Greenwood (Li Qian group) | U. of Toronto | ML based entanglement witness, quantum optics |
| Dashiell Vitullo | Army Research Lab | Fiber optics, nonlinear optics, microresonators |
| Ryan Glasser | Tulane University | Quantum optics and machine learning |
| Joseph Lukens | ASU | Spectral mode linear optics, ML-based state reconstruction |
| Na Young Kim (remote) | U Waterloo | RTN analysis using ML for quantum dots |
| Sanjaya Lohani | UIC | ML assisted variational quantum algorithms |
| Surya Ganguli | Stanford | Physical and computational theory of neuroscience |
| Mushkan Sureka (Saikat Guha group) | UArizona | Hybrid quantum algorithms using NISQ photonic processors |
| Yanzhu Chen (Sophia Economou group) | Virginia Tech | NISQ algorithms, including QAOA and error mitigation |
| Soorya Rethinasamy (Mark Wilde group) | Cornell | quantum information theory |
| Gerasimos (Gerry) Angelatos | Raytheon BBN | Machine learning for superconducting qubits |
| Sara Gamble | Army Research Lab | Quantum algorithms, quantum information science |
| Junyu Liu | UChicago | Variational quantum algorithms, quantum optics |
| Mohamed ElKabbash | MIT | Metamaterials for quantum photonic engineering |