October 2026
David attended 2026 Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) Conference from October 15-17 in Tempe, AZ, and made a poster presentation on "Development of a Multimodal Confocal Imaging Platform for Diamond-Based Biological Quantum Sensing", showcasing his ongoing work in collaboration with Prof. Tijana Rajh (ASU SMS) and Prof. Tatiana Ugarova (ASU SOLS).
June 2026
EQuBS team led by Principal Investigator Prof. Mouzhe Xie has been awarded an NIH MIRA R35 (ESI) grant, totaling approximately $2M over five years, to advance quantum sensing technologies for biological and biomedical applications!
Read more about it on ASU News here.
June 2026
We welcome ASU undergraduate researchers Weiyi Zhou and Christopher Lee to join EQuBS lab!
June 2026
Rolando, Jia, and Mouzhe attended the inangural meeting of a new series of GRC on Magnetic Resonance and Quantum Information Science (GRC-MRQIS) in Manchester, NH from June 16-19, 2026. We presented our ongoing research and had stimulating discussions with many experts in the field. Rolando is a recipient of Archer Travel Award from ASU Departtment of Physics. Rolando and Jia additionally acknolwedge ASU Graduate Student Government (GSG) for the Travel Grant support.
May 2026
We welcome two rising freshmen, Fiona Riley and Noah Roth, to conduct experiments as summer research interns in EQuBS!
May 2026
Ian and Mouzhe attended the American Society for Photobiology (ASP) Biennial Meeting “From Foundations to Frontiers in Photobiology”, 16-19 May, 2026 • Scottsdale, AZ. Mouzhe made a contributed talk on "Yellow fluorescent protein: the a protein qubit platform for future quantum technologies". Ian presented his ongoing research with a poster.
April 2026
Noah and Taneesha, two undersgraduate research fellows from Barrett, the Honors College at ASU, presented their independent research at the inangural SMS Poster Symposium. Noah also successfully defended his Honors thesis earlier this month, setting forth on his graduate school journey at University of Winscosin–Madison this fall!
January 2026
We welcome David Boone and Ian Kriel to officially join the EQuBS lab and work on exciting qubit-based quantum biosensing projects!
November 2025
We hosted a lab tour for the student-lead, ASU-wide Quantum Club. In over two hours, a group of 10+ students explored our lab infrastructure in great depth, asked fantastic questions, and watched the acquisition of an ODMR spectrum using glowing diamonds in real time. These guests come from a diverse background -- engineering, biochemistry, statistics, and economics! Avneet was the lead organizer, and Rolando performed those cool live demos.
July 2025
An ASU News article, written by David Rozul, reported our "nanoparticle-assisted NMR spin relaxation (NASR)" methodology, which allows researchers to study protein internal motions happening in a wide range of timescales from picoseconds all the way up to microseconds, including the nanosecond-to-microsecond dynamics that were previously inaccessible. The detailed steps to conduct NASR, now proved robust and easy to carry out, has been recently pulished as a protocol paper in Nature Protocols.
The news article can be accessed via https://news.asu.edu/b/20250730-asu-professor-opens-new-window-protein-motion
June 2025
Mou was invited by ASU Prep to share stories about NV qubit with a group of six K-12 educators at the QCamp, empowered by Sandia National Lab. Through these amazing individuals in quantum education, the knowledge, curiosity, and excitement can be disseminated to the future generations!
June 2025
Joint with ASU professors Christian Arenz and Justin Earley, Mouzhe shared his insights and excitements about QISE on ASU News. Thanks Mikala Kass for writing up the nice story and David Rozul for shooting the pictures!
The news article can be accessed via https://news.asu.edu/20250602-science-and-technology-your-crash-course-quantum-science
Feburary 2025
We are making progress in setting up one of the NV sensing platforms. The primary driving forces behind the instrumentation of this confocal system are physics Ph.D. student Rolando and three undergraduate researchers Avneet (ECE), Noah (physics), and Taneesha (MechE)!
January 2025
We welcome Taneesha Kapadia, an undergraduate researcher from The ASU Barrett Honors College majoring Mechanical Engineering, to join the EQuBS lab working on the NV instrumentation and more!
December 2024
The EQuBS lab organized a 2-day bootcamp on December 11 and 12. We discussed very technical details about microscope instrumentation and qubit operation using a tutorial format in the mornings, and went inside the lab for hands-on demonstrations.
During the hands-on sessions, we coupled a 520 nm solid-state diode laser into a single-mode fiber, and observed a clear filtering effect that the outcome beam profile was almost a perfect Gaussian. We also built an actual bright-field microscope using modular optics.
In addition to the scientific portion, we also had some group activities including a group lunch at Postino Annex and rock climbing experience at Bouldering Project - Tempe.
August 2024
We welcome Jia Qi, an SMS Chemistry Ph.D. student, to join the EQuBS lab!
August 2024
Mouzhe delivered a talk on nanoscale NMR enable by NV diamond quantum sensor at ICMRBS 2024 in Seoul.
July 2024
The laser is lasing!
July 2024
Quantum Machines OPX+ is up running!
July 2024
Our Signatone system has been installed!
June 2024
Dr. AVULU Vinod Kumar started his postdoctoral training in the EQuBS lab. He obtained a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Hyderabad. Welcome, Vinod!
May 2024
We welcome Avneet, Bailey, and Noah, three undergraduate researchers from The ASU Barrett Honors College, to join the EQuBS lab and work towards their Honors theses!
March 2024
We welcome Rolando and Sam to join the EQuBS lab!
January 26, 2024
Mouzhe delivered a talk at AZ Photonics Days 2024 in Tucson, and had many intriguing conversations with colleagues at University of Arizona and the optical industry partners.
November 2023
Mouzhe joined the steering committee of the "Quantum Sensing and Metrology" division at the Quantum Collabroative. The Quantum Collaborative at ASU connects top scientific programs, initiatives, facilities, leading Quantum Information Science and Technology (QIST) talent, and prominent industry partners to advance the science and engineering of quantum information science, train the quantum workforce of tomorrow, and drive U.S. quantum economic advantage. The Quantum Collaborative is powered by the State of Arizona and our partners.
October 2023
Did some measurements in the EQuBS lab spaces. Look forward to the completion of the customized modifications.