January 2026: Team led by Prof. Seshadreesan as PI, and consisting of Profs. Prashant Krishnamurthy, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Sridhar Tayur as co-PIs, secures Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Community Collaboration Award for project on ``Dynamic Programming & Reinforcement Learning for Quantum Network Control (DyReQNet-Ctrl)".
January 2026: Prof. Seshadreesan joins the Advisory Board for Western Pennsylvania Quantum Information Core as the representation from the School of Computing and Information at University of Pittsburgh.
January 2026: Our paper ``Multiplexed Bilayered Realization of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Over Optically Networked Trapped-Ion Modules" by Nitish Kumar Chandra, Saikat Guha, and Kaushik P Seshadreesan, is now published in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering. Congratulations Nitish!
November 2025: PhD students Nitish Chandra and Mohadeseh Azari and Prof. Seshadreesan coauthor ``Quantum-Resistant Networks Using Post-Quantum Cryptography" (with authors Xin Jin, Nitish Kumar Chandra, Mohadeseh Azari, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Junyu Liu), which is presented at the IEEE QUILLS Workshop at the IEEE TPS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Congrats Nitish and Mohadeseh!
November 2025: PhD student Nitish Chandra presents ``Architectural Approaches to Fault-Tolerant Distributed Quantum Computing and Their Entanglement Overheads" (with authors Nitish Kumar Chandra, Eneet Kaur and Kaushik Seshadreesan) at the IEEE QUILLS Workshop at the IEEE TPS Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Congrats Nitish!
November 2025: Prof. Seshadreesan co-chairs the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Quantum Intelligence, Learning, and Security (QUILLS) at the IEEE Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS) conference helding in Pittsburgh, PA.
October 2025: Prof. Seshadreesan presents ``Entanglement Overheads of Distributed Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing" at the Telecommunications Seminar in the Department of Informatics and Networks Systems, University of Pittsburgh.
September 2025: Prof. Seshadreesan receives Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing Research Early Career Research Proposal Award on ``Quantum Networking for Efficient and Robust Distributed Services (Q-NERDS) ".
September 2025: PhD student Nitish Kumar Chandra presents ``Distributed Realization of Color Codes for Quantum Error Correction" (with authors Nitish Chandra, David Tipper, Reza Nejabati, Eneet Kaur, and Kaushik Seshadreesan) at IEEE Quantum Week 2025, in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Congratulations Nitish!
September 2025: PhD student Anoosha Fayyaz (co-advised by Prof. Seshadreesan) presents ``On Selecting Paths for End-to-End Entanglement Creation in Quantum Networks" (with authors Anoosha Fayyaz, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Kaushik Seshadreesan, David Tipper, and Amy Babay) at IEEE Quantum Week 2025, in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Congratulations Anoosha!
September 2025: PhD students Mohadeseh Azari and Nitish Chandra and Prof. Seshadreesan coauthor ``Quantum Repeaters Enhanced by Vacuum Beam Guides" (with authors Yu Gan, Mohadeseh Azari, Nitish Kumar Chandra, Xin Jin, Jinglei Cheng, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, and Junyu Liu), which is presented at IEEE Quantum Week 2025, in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Congratulations Mohadeseh and Nitish!
September 2025: PhD student Mohadeseh Azari presents poster ``Entanglement Percolation in Quantum Hypergraphs" (with authors Mohadeseh Azari, Anoosha Fayyaz, and Kaushik Seshadreesan) at IEEE Quantum Week 2025, in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Congratulations Mohadeseh!
September 2025: PhD student Priyam Srivastava presents poster ``Variational Quantum Sensing for Structured Linear Estimation Function" (with authors Priyam Srivastava, Vivek Kumar, Gurudev Dutt, and Kaushik Seshadreesan) at IEEE Quantum Week 2025, in Albuquerque, NM, USA. Congratulations Priyam!
September 2025: Prof. Seshadreesan speaks on ``Entanglement Overheads of Distributed Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing" at 1QBit's Workshop on ``Quantum Interconnects and Compilation for Distributed FTQC Architectures" at IEEE Quantum Week 2025, in Albuquerque, NM, USA.
March 2025: Prof. Seshadreesan and PhD student Priyam Srivastava secure Quantum Computing Access @ NERSC: IBM Quantum program to support research on ``Optimizing State Preparation for Enhanced Quantum Sensing (Opt-SPEQS)".
January 2025: PhD student Mohadeseh Azari secures the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Graduate Fellowship for spring 2025. Congratulations Mohadeseh!
January 2025: Prof. Seshadreesan secures Research Gift from Cisco Systems for project on ``Compiler Scheduler Integration in Networked Quantum Computing (COSINQC)".
December 2024: Team led by colleague Prof. Junyu Liu as PI and Profs. Seshadreesan, Gurudev Dutt and Kim Kang as co-PIs, secures Pittsburgh Quantum Institute Community Collaboration Award for project on ``NV-center-based quantum sensing for ultrasound imaging".
October 2024: PhD student Nitish Chandra presents ``Network Operations Scheduling for Distributed Quantum Computing" (with authors Nitish Kumar Chandra, Eneet Kaur and Kaushik Seshadreesan) at the IEEE QUILLS Workshop at the IEEE TPS Conference, Washington, DC, USA.
October 2024: Prof. Seshadreesan co-chairs IEEE Workshop on Quantum Intelligence, Learning and Security (QUILLS) at the IEEE Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS) conference, held in Washington DC. He moderates a panel on ``Quantum Cybersecurity: Challenges & Opportunities" featuring experts Michele Mosca, Donna Dodson, Junyu Liu, Eneet Kaur and Di Wu.
October 2024: Our paper ``Quantum Switches for Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Qubit-based All-Photonic Quantum Networks", by Mohadeseh Azari, Paul Polakos, Kaushik P Seshadreesan, is now published in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering.
September 2024: Our paper ``Calculating the Capacity Region of a Quantum Switch" by Ian Tillman, Thirupathaiah Vasantam, Don Towsley, and Kaushik Seshadreesan is presented at the IEEE Quantum Week International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering in Montreal, CN.
May 2024: PhD IS Telcom student Mohadeseh Azari's paper titled ``A GKP qubit-based all-photonic quantum switch" is presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications in Denver, CO. Congratulations Mohadeseh!
April 2024: Prof. Seshadreesan presents an invited talk on ``Quantum networking” at the University of Rhode Island, Department of Physics and Astronomy World Quantum Day Event.
March 2024: Prof. Seshadreesan presents a talk on ``The Nuts & Bolts of Quantum Networking: Quantum Repeater & Switch Protocols" at the Telecommunications Seminar in the Department of Informatics & Networked Systems, University of Pittsburgh.
March 2024: PhD IS Telcom student Nitish Kumar Chandra's presents paper titled ``An architecture for distributed fault tolerant quantum computing over a trapped-ion quantum network with finite resources" at the APS March Meeting held in Minneapolis, MN. Congratulations Nitish!
January 2024: Priyam Srivastava, a new PhD IS Telcom student joins our group. Welcome Priyam! Priyam will work on Quantum Machine Learning and Applications for his dissertation research.
December 2023: MS IS Thesis student Vivek Kumar successfully defended his thesis titled ``Optimal Entanglement Distillation Policies for Bipartite Quantum Switches" and graduated with a Masters degree. Congratulations Vivek!
November 2023: Prof. Seshadreesan presents Guest Lecture titled ``Quantum Networking with GKP Qubits" at the Georgia Institute of Technology SPIE Student Chapter and Quantum Computing Association
September 2023: Undergrad student Ann Kang presents ``Trapped Ion quantum Repeaters with Entanglement Distillation based on Quantum LDPC Codes" (with authors Ann Kang, Narayanan Rengaswamy, Saikat Guha and Kaushik Seshadreesan) at the IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering conference in Bellevue, WA, USA. Congrats Ann!
September 2023: MS IS student Vivek Kumar presents ``Optimal Entanglement Distillation Policies for Quantum Switches", (with authors Vivek Kumar, Nitish Kumar Chandra, Kaushik Seshadreesan, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Sridhar Tayur) at the IEEE Quantum Computing and Engineering conference in Bellevue, WA, USA.
July 2023: PhD student Mohadeseh Azari and Prof. Seshadreesan coauthor ``Orchestrating Measurement-Based Quantum Computation over Photonic Quantum Processors" (with authors Yingheng Li, Aditya Pawar, Mohadeseh Azari, Yanan Guo, Youtao Zhang, Jun Yang, Kaushik Seshadreesa, and Xulong Tang), which is presented at ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, USA.
April 2023: Prof. Seshadreesan presents talk on ``The Story of Quantum Entanglement—From Theory to Technology" at Cafe Scientifique organized by the Carnegie Science Center.
March 2023: New paper is posted to the arXiv on ``All-photonic multiplexed quantum repeaters based on concatenated bosonic and discrete-variable quantum codes" by Filip Rozpędek, Kaushik Seshadreesan, Paul Polakos, Saikat Guha, and Liang Jiang.
February 2023: Prof. Seshadreesan, along with Gurudev Dutt of Pitt Physics secures Pitt Momentum grant for project on ``Improving quantum sensing using variational quantum optimization algorithms".
January 2023: Prof. Seshadreesan secures Research Gift from Cisco Systems for project on ``Continuous Variable Entanglement Switching".
December 2022: Our paper ``Supporting multiple entanglement flows through a continuous-variable quantum repeater" by Ian Tillman, Allision Rubenok, Saikat Guha, and Kaushik Seshadreesan, is now published in Physical Review A.
September 2022: Prof. Seshadreesan presents ``Introduction to Quantum Networking" at the QIS for Professional Tutorial Workshop hosted by the PQI.
September 2022: Vivek Kumar, Ann Kang and Nitish Chandra present posters at PQI 2022. Seshadreesan presents an invited talk on quantum repeaters.
September 2022: Our paper ``A continuous variable quantum switch" by Ian Tillman, Thirupathaiah Vasantam, and Kaushik Seshadreesan is presented at the IEEE Quantum Week International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering.
August 2022: We welcome new PhD students Mohadeseh Azari and Nitish Kumar Chandra to the group!
June 2022: Prof. Seshadreesan receives sub-award from University of Maryland to work on the NSF Convergence Accelerator grant, project QuaNeCQT (Quantum Networks to Connect Quantum Technologies).
May 2022: We welcome MS IS student Vivek Kumar to the group! Vivek will be working on quantum network simulations.
May 2022: Our paper ``Coherent manipulations of graph states composed of GKP-encoded qubits" by Prajit Dhara, Ashlesha Patil, Liang Jiang, Saikat Guha, and Kaushik Seshadreesan is now published in Physical Review A.
April 2022: Prof. Seshadreesan represents Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) at the PQI-OSU Quantum Meetup on the Quantum Communications and Networking Panel.
February 2022: Our paper ``Multiplexed quantum repeaters based on dual-species trapped-ion systems" by Prajit Dhara, Norbert Linke, Edo Waks, Saikat Guha, and Kaushik Seshadreesan is now published in Physical Review A.
January 2022: Prof. Seshadreesan receives NSF (CIF, FET, CISE-Core) grant for project on ``Realizing Joint Detection Receivers for Quantum-enhanced Optical Communications using Photonic NISQ-era Quantum Processors".