USC Dornsife’s Rosa Di Felice earns recognition in the Airbus-BMW Quantum Computing Challenge
Quantum computing is a vast space that is rapidly evolving. Many of the advancements are technological — with a particular focus on quantum computing chips such as the recently announced Google Willow project. However, researchers are also developing more accessible cloud-based platforms, with the goal of getting closer to practical applications in industries such as materials science.
Research from Rosa Di Felice, professor of physics and astronomy and quantitative and computational biology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Naman Jain, a master’s degree student at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, on developing coating films that resist corrosion recently received recognition in the 2024 Airbus-BMW Quantum Computing Challenge. The award furthers advances the university’s Frontiers of Computing “moonshot,” a $1 billion-plus initiative led by USC President Carol Folt to support ethical research and development in quantum computing, artificial intelligence, robotics and other advanced computing fields.
USC News recently spoke with Di Felice about how she is applying quantum computing techniques to computational surface science.