2025/09/22, Byung Chan Kim and Woojeong Chung began to work as 1-year visiting research students at quantum computing laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.
2025/09/01, Junhyeok Jang joined our group as a graduate student. Welcome!
2025/09/01, Soojoon Lee spends a year on sabbatical at Quantum Information Group, School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
2025/08/07, Minjin Choi's 2nd child was born. Happy birthday!
2025/08/04 ~ 08/08, Our several (former/associate) members including Jeong San Kim, Donghoon Ha, Jeonghoon Park and Youngrong Lim participated in the 25th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference. Yongrong Lim among them gave a talk, and some members gave 3 poster presentations at the conference.
2025/07/01, Jinhyeok Heo began to work as an 1-year visiting research student at Center for Quantum Information R&D, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information.
2025/06/29 ~ 07/01, In Hee Yun attended the 2025 Quantum Information Competition (Quantum Hackathon), and won the special prize for utilizing the IonQ cloud in the competition. Congratulations! In addition, our former/associate members, Eunok Bae, Minjin Choi and Kabgyun Jeong, had served as domestic mentors at the competition.
2025/06/26, Our former member, Eunok Bae gave a public lecture about 100 Years of Quantum, Awakening Industry at Quantum Korea 2025.
2025/06/24, Soojoon Lee was awarded a commendation from the Korean Minister of Science and ICT for his contribution to the development of quantum science and technology at the opening ceremony of Quantum Korea 2025. Congratulations!
2025/06/12, Haesol Han has visited Prof. Alexander Streltsov's research group at Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences to study problems about coherence and entanglement in quantum algorithms for 6 months. Her visit has been conducted with full financial support from Quantum Information Research Support Center funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
2025/05/16, Our former members, Yong Hae Lee and Eunok Bae gave two tutorials about quantum algorithms at the 2025 KSIAM Spring Conference held in Konkuk University, Seoul, and our several (former/associate) members attended the conference.
2025/05/09, Soojoon Lee and our associate member, Jeong Woon Choi, participated in the 235th KAST Roundtable Discussion, and discussed the past, present, and future of quantum information science and technology with other panelists at the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
2025/04/24 ~ 04/26, Jeong San Kim gave an invited talk at 2025 KMS Spring Meeting held in KAIST, Daejeon, and our (former) members, Yonghae Lee, Minjin Choi, and Sekang Kwon gave contributed talks at the special session of the meeting.
2025/04/04, Soojoon Lee gave a mini-lecture on quantum information and quantum computation at Kyung Hee Girls' High School.
2025/03/01, Our former member, Youngrong Lim began to work as an assistant professor at Department of Physics in Chungbuk National University.
2025/03/01, Sanghyun Choi joined KHU QC Lab and our group as a new member. Welcome!
2025/02/27, Our university has been selected for the BK21 FOUR (Brain Korea 21 Fostering Outstanding Universities for Research) project, funded by the Ministry of Education and the National Research Foundation of Korea, in the field of quantum information science. This project includes the participation of 23 professors from the Departments of (Applied) Mathematics, (Applied) Physics, Applied Chemistry, Astronomy & Space Science, and Electronic Engineering. Since both Soojoon Lee and Jeong San Kim are participating in the project, some students in our group will be provided with the educational programs related to quantum information science and financial support from March 2025 to August 2027.
2025/02/21 ~ 02/28, Our (former/associate) members, Soojoon Lee, Jeong San Kim, Donghoon Ha, Haeum Kim, Sekang Kwon, Jin Hyeok Heo, Ho-Joon Kim and Kabgyun Jeong participated in QIP 2025: the 28th Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing, and gave 6 poster presentations at QIP 2025.
2025/02/17 ~ 02/19, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizing committee member for 2025 Annual Meeting of the Quantum Information Society of Korea, our almost all (former/associate) members participated in the meeting, and some of them gave invited/contributed talks.
2025/02/01, Sanguk Lim began to work as an 1-year visiting research student at quantum computing laboratory, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute.
2025/01/13 ~ 01/17, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizer for the 4th Winter School on Quantum Information Science.
2025/01/02, Our former members, Eunok Bae and Minjin Choi, started working in permanent positions at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, respectively.
2024/12/10, In Hee Yun, an undergraduate research intern working at KHU QC Lab, won the 3rd prize in the IonQ Quantum Challenge Award. Congratulations!
2024/12/05 ~ 2024/12/08, Our (former/assocate) members, Soojoon Lee, Byung Chan Kim, Haesol Han, Sanguk Lim, Gunho Lee, Junhyeong An, Minjin Choi, Eunok Bae and Taewan kim, had participated in KSIAM 2024 Annual Meeting held in BEXCO, Busan. Minjin Choi and Eunok Bae gave talks at the meeting, and Junhyeong An gave a poster presentation there.
2024/11/28, Junhyeong An successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations!
2024/11/10 ~ 2024/11/29, Donghoon Ha gave lectures on Quantum Computing Theory and Practice at Daegu Digital Innovation Promotion Agency.
2024/11/06, Soojoon Lee was appointed as a member of operating committee at International Center for Quantum Matter.
2024/10/14 ~ 2024/10/15, Our (former) members, Jeonghyeon Shin, Soojoon Lee and Youngrong Lim, gave invited talks at KISTI-KU-SNU Joint Workshop on quantum communication theory in quantum networks.
2024/10/06, Soojoon Lee organized a special session, "Quantum Information & Quantum Computation," at 2024 Annual Meeting of the Korean Mathematical Society, and our (associate) members, Jinhyeok Heo and Taewan Kim, gave two talks at the session.
2024/10/15 ~ 2024/10/16, Our (former) members, Jeong San Kim, Donghoon Ha, Jinhyeok Heo and Yonghae Lee, participated in RIKEN-KAIST-NCTS Joint Workshop on QIS, which was held in KAIST, and Jeong San Kim gave an invited talk at the workshop.
2024/10/04 ~ 2024/12/07, Soojoon Lee had served as a program committee member for QIP 2025: 28th Annual Quantum Information Processing Conference, which will be held from 22 February to 28 February, 2025.
2024/09/01, Haeum Kim joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome! However, since 13 September, he has been visiting Professor Jong Yeon Lee's research group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to work with Professor Lee for 1 year. His visit is conducted with full financial support from Quantum Information Research Support Center funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
2024/09/01, Junhyeok Jang joined our group as an undergraduate research intern. Welcome!
2024/08/26 ~ 2024/08/30, Our (former/associate) members, Jeong San Kim, Donghoon Ha, Jeonghoon Park, Jin Hyeok Heo, Youngrong Lim, Eunok Bae, Minjin Choi and Kabgyun Jeong have participated in the 24th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference, and some of them give 9 poster presentations at the conference.
2024/08/24, Soojoon Lee gave a mini-lecture on quantum information and quantum algorithms for high school students at Kyung Hee Science Talk Concert.
2024/08/18 ~ 08/23, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizer as well as a speaker for the 4th Summer School on Quantum Information Science.
2024/06/25 ~ 06/27, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizing committee member for Quantum Korea 2024, and some of our members including our former and associate members had participated in the event.
2024/04/21 ~ 04/23, Soojoon Lee had served as the organizing committee co-chair for 2024 Annual Meeting of the Quantum Information Society of Korea, Jeong San Kim had also served as an organizing committee member as well as a program committee member for the annual meeting, our almost all (former/associate) members participated in the meeting, and some of them gave invited/contributed talks and poster presentations.
2024/04/01, Jeonghoon Park joined our group as a research professor. Welcome!
2024/03/01, Kyu-Won Park joined our group as a research professor. Welcome!
2024/02/22, In Hee Yun joined our group (KHU QC Lab) as an undergraduate research intern. Welcome!
2024/01/23, Jeong San Kim took part in the inauguration of the Defense Quantum Computing & Sensing Technology Specialized Research Center. The center consists of four labs, and he will lead one of the labs responsible for developing defense quantum computing technology until October 2029 (Kriss News).
2024/01/13 ~ 01/19, Our (former/associate) members, Jeong San Kim, Donghoon Ha, Sekang Kwon, Ho-Joon Kim, Eunok Bae, Youngrong Lim and Kabgyun Jeong had participated in QIP 2024: the 27th Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing, and some of them gave 6 poster presentations there.
2024/01/15 ~ 01/19, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizer for the 3rd Winter School on Quantum Information Science.
2024/01/10, Soojoon Lee gave an invited talk on quantum information science and technology ecosystem in Korea at the 3rd K-Quantum Square Meeting (Chosun Biz News, Youtube).
2023/12/26 ~ 12/27, Our (former) members, Jeong San Kim, Ho-Joon Kim, Eunok Bae, Junhyeong An, and Jeonghoon Park gave talks at the 2nd CQNC Winter Workshop, which was held in Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul.
2023/12/07 ~ 12/08, Our (former) members, Jeong San Kim, Sekang Kwon and Yonghae Lee gave talks at Nagoya-KAIST GEnKO 2023 Workshop on Quantum Entanglement and Open Quantum Systems, which was held in Nagoya University, Japan.
2023/11/03, Our (former) members, Jeong San Kim, Eunok Bae, Youngrong Lim, Sekang Kwon and Haesol Han gave talks at 2023 KSIAM Annual Meeting held in Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju.
2023/10/28, Soojoon Lee gave an invited talk at 2023 KMS Annual Meeting held in Seoul National University, Seoul.
2023/10/01 ~ 12/31, Minjoo Kim joined our group as an undergraduate research intern. Welcome!
2023/09/21 ~ 09/22, Our (former) members, Haesol Han, Eunok Bae, Yonghae Lee, Soojoon Lee, Donghoon Ha and Youngrong Lim, gave invited talks at KISTI-KU-SNU Joint Workshop.
2023/08/28 ~ 09/01, Soojoon Lee and our former members, Youngrong Lim and Eunok Bae, had served as organizing committee members for the 23rd Asian Quantum Information Science Conference, and our (former/associate) members gave several poster presentations at the conference.
2023/08/21 ~ 08/25, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizer for the 2023 Summer School on Quantum Information Science.
2023/08/09 ~ 08/11, Our (former/associate) members, Soojoon Lee, Jeong San Kim, Eunok Bae, Kabgyun Jeong and Taewan Kim, gave lectures and research talks at 2023 KSIAM-NIMS Summer School on Quantum Computing: mathematical aspect of quantum computing.
2023/07/01 ~ 08/31, Yousung Jeon joined our group as an undergraduate research intern. Welcome!
2023/06/26 ~ 06/29, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizing committee member for Quantum Korea 2023, and most of our members including our former and associate members had participated in the event.
2023/06/21 ~ 06/23, Our former members, Youngrong Lim, Yonghae Lee and Eunok Bae together with our associate member, Kabgyun Jeong, had served as domestic partners at 2023 Korea Quantum Hackathon.
2023/06/10, Haesol Han was awarded the 2023 KWMS travel grant supported by Korean Women in Mathematical Sciences. With the financial support, she will participate in QMath Masterclass: Quantum Learning Theory, which was held from 21 August to 25 August at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2023/05/12, Soojoon Lee and Jeong San Kim gave invited talks at KISTI-SNU Joint Workshop.
2023/04/01, Min Namkung began to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Center for Quantum Information in Korea Institute of Science and Technology. All the best!
2023/03/02, Our former members, Eunok Bae and Minjin Choi, began to work as a project research fellow and a postdoctoral researcher at two new places, Korea Institute for Advanced Study and Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, respectively.
2023/03/02, Junhyeong An joined our group as a new member. Welcome!
2023/03/02, Ho-Joon Kim began to work at a new place, Department of Physics, Hanyang University. All the best!
2023/02/22 ~ 02/23, Our members, Jeong San Kim, Donghoon Ha and Min Namkung, gave 3 invited talks at KAIST-Nagoya GENKO Workshop: Entanglement and Quantum Markovian Process.
2023/02/17, Our former member, Eunok Bae, gave a talk at Workshop on AI and Quantum Information Applications in Fundamental Physics.
2023/02/03 ~ 02/10, Our (former/associate) members, Soojoon Lee, Jeong San Kim, Donghoon Ha, Min Namkung, Youngrong Lim, Yonghae Lee, Taewan Kim and Eunok Bae had participated in QIP 2023: 26th Conference on Quantum Information Processing, and some of them gave 5 poster presentations there.
2023/01/16, Our (former) members, Ho-Joon Kim, Donghoon Ha, Youngrong Lim, Yonghae Lee, and Eunok Bae gave invited talks at 2023 CQNC Winter Kick-off Workshop.
2023/01/12, Sekang Kwon placed third in the Qubit Touchdown Game Tournament, which was held at the 2022 Winter School on Quantum Information Science. Congratulations!
2023/01/08 ~ 01/13, Soojoon Lee organized the 2022 Winter School on Quantum Information Science, and gave two lectures on basic theories of quantum operations and distance measures at the school.
2022/12/06, Sanguk Lim successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations!
2022/11/29, Min Namkung won the first prize of the lottery in K-Quantum Square Meeting 2022. Congratulations!
2022/11/25, Jong Jun Park and Sanguk Lim gave talks at 2022 KSIAM Annual Meeting held in Jeju SONO Calm, Jeju.
2022/09/14, The website for the Center for Quantum Sapient Workforce opened. Soojoon Lee and Jeong San Kim are faculty members of the center, and several students in KHUQI are also student members of the center.
2022/09/14, Minjin Choi's daughter was born. Happy birthday!
2022/09/01, Jeong San Kim was appointed the Head of Department of Applied Mathematics in Kyung Hee University, and he will serve for two and half years.
2022/09/01, Our previous member, Yonghae Lee, began to work as an assistant professor at Division of Liberal Studies in Kangwon National University.
2022/09/01, Jeonghyeon Shin started her Ph.D course through the KHU-KIST collaboration program, and hence began to work at Quantum Information Theory Group in Korea Institute of Science and Technology at the same time.
2022/08/22 ~ 08/26, Soojoon Lee gave lectures on basic theories of quantum algorithms at 2022 Summer School on Quantum Information Science.
2022/07/20 ~ 07/25, Our collaborator, Dr Hayata Yamasaki, had visited our group, and had discussed several topics related to recent research works with our members. He became an assistant professor at Department of Physics in the University of Tokyo from September, 2022.
2022/07/19, Ho-Joon Kim gave an invited talk at the satellite session on Quantum Information and Low Dimensional Systems of the ISPSA 2022, which was held at Ramada Plaza Jeju Hotel, Jeju, Korea.
2022/07/08, Sekang Kwon gave a talk at the IBM Quantum satellite session - Young Scientists' Workshop in Nano Korea 2022 Symposium, which was held at Kintex, Korea.
2022/06/30 ~ 07/01, Soojoon Lee and Jeong San Kim had served as members of the organizing and program committee for the International Conference on Quantum Computing 2022, which had been held at Hotel JW Marriott, Seoul, Korea.
2022/06/28, Jeonghyeon Shin gave a poster presentation at the 5th Quantum Information Conference 2022, which was held at Korea Institute for Advanced Study.
2022/06/27 ~ 06/29, Sekang Kwon, Byung Chan Kim, Haesol Han, Woojeong Chung and Gunho Lee had participated in Quantum Hackathon Korea 2022, which had been held at Hotel Samjung & Hotel JW Marriott, Seoul, Korea.
2022/05/27 ~ 06/04, Jeong San Kim and Min Namkung had visited the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Calgary, and they gave two talks there.
2022/05/23, Jeonghyeon Shin successfully defended her MSc thesis. Congratulations!
2022/04/19, A university consortium center (Main: Korea University) for quantum information workforce education has been awarded a nine-year grant for the education center program from the Korea Ministry of Science and ICT (from 2022 to 2030). The center is called the Center for Quantum Sapient Workforce. Because both Soojoon Lee and Jeong San Kim are regular members of the center, new students in our group can be provided with educational programs and financial support from the center.
2022/03/01, Gunho Lee joined our group as a new member. Welcome!
2022/02/23, Our previous member, Eunok Bae, has won a five-year research grant (from March 2022 to February 2027) for early-career researchers from the National Research Foundation of Korea. Congratulations!
2022/02/10, Sekang Kwon won the special prize in Qiskit Hackathon KOREA 2022. Congratulations!
2022/01/10 ~ 01/21, Soojoon Lee gave online lectures on basic theories of quantum information at 2022 Winter School on Quantum Information Science.
2021/12/06, Haesol Han successfully defended her MSc thesis. Congratulations!
2021/12/03, Jin Hyeok Heo and Haesol Han gave talks at KSIAM Annual Meeting held in Bexco, Busan.
2021/11/29, Jin Hyeok Heo successfully defended his MSc thesis. Congratulations!
2021/11/02, Soojoon Lee's Japanese article about the Korean government's support for quantum computing research has been posted on the Science Portal Asia Pacific website operated by the Japan Science and Technology Agency.
2021/10/01, Since October 2021, Jeonghyeon Shin has visited Prof. Dr. Robert T. König's research group at Technical University of Munich to study several problems showing the quantum advantage for 8 months. Her visit has been conducted with full financial support from Quantum Information Research Support Center funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.
2021/09/01, Min Namkung joined KHU QC Lab and our group as a new postdoc researcher. Welcome!
2021/09/01, Eunok Bae began to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Department of Mathematics, Hanyang University. All the best!
2021/08/19, Yonghae Lee's 2nd child was born. Happy birthday!
2021/07/26 ~ 08/05, Soojoon Lee gave online lectures on basic theories of quantum algorithms and quantum information at 2021 Summer School on Quantum Information Science.
2021/06/02, Eunok Bae and Minjin Choi successfully defended their PhD dissertations. Congratulations!
2021/06/01, Minjin Choi began to work at QuNova computing, the first quantum-computing startup in Korea. All the best!
2021/05/25, Donghoon Ha's paper published in npj Quantum Information was reported in several domestic media (National Research Foundation of Korea, News1, Nobel Science, Patent News: Science). Congratulations!
2021/05/10, The website for Seoul Center for Quantum Computation (SCQC) opened. Soojoon Lee is a member of SCQC.
2021/03/01, Byung Chan Kim, Sanguk Lim and Woojeong Chung joined our group as new members. Welcome!
2021/03/01, Yonghae Lee began to work as a postdoctoral researcher at a new place, Quantum Information Theory Lab, School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST. All the best!
2020/12/17, Sekang Kwon's 1st daughter was born. Happy birthday!
2020/11/10, Ho-Joon Kim gave a lightning talk at Beyond IID in Information Theory 8, and its extended version is available on YouTube.
2020/08/26 ~ 27, Jeong San Kim, Yonghae Lee and Kabgyun Jeong gave invited talks at International Conference on Quantum Computing 2020.
2020/08/21, Kyung Hee University Quantum Computing Laboratory (KHU QC Lab) opened. Congratulations!
2020/08/05, Soojoon Lee had served as an organizing committee member for International Conference on Quantum Computing 2020.
2020/08/01, Donghoon Ha joined our group as a new postdoc researcher. Welcome!
2020/07/28, Soojoon Lee was appointed a Review Board member of the National Research Foundation of Korea. For about 37 months (to August 2023), he serves as a Program Manager to conduct various works including consultation for project planning in the area of quantum information science.
2020/05/27, Our two regular members, Soojoon Lee (PI) and Jeong San Kim (PI) have won two research grants from National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea, respectively, and two associate members, Kabgyun Jeong (PI) and Youngrong Lim (Co-PI), have also won another one research grant from NRF. All the grants have a common theme, quantum algorithms and their applications, and a total of eight research teams including our three ones have been awarded the grants. Each team receives 550 million KRW (roughly 460,000 USD) from June 2020 to February 2023 through the grant to conduct the research. Congratulations!
2020/03/09, Our paper, "Hybrid quantum linear equation algorithm and its experimental test on IBM Quantum Experience" published in Scientific Reports, was placed as one of the top 100 downloaded physics papers for Scientific Reports in 2019. (Top 100 in Physics page of Scientific Reports)
2020/03/01, Jin Hyeok Heo joined our group as a new member. Welcome!
2020/02/02 ~ 15, Ho-Joon Kim had visited Prof. Martin B. Plenio's group in University of Ulm for research collaboration.
2019/11/01, Soojoon Lee was appointed the deputy dean of College of Science in Kyung Hee University, and he had served as the deputy dean until September 2021.
2019/09/15, Eunok Bae had visited Fang Song's group at Texas A&M University from September 2019, and she had been there to work with him by February 2020.
2019/09/13, Joonsoo, Yonghae Lee's 1st son, was born. Happy birthday!
2019/08/23, Eunok Bae won the 2nd prize in the AQIS Best Student Poster Award (http://aqis-conf.org/2019/best-student-poster-award-winner/). Congratulations!
2019/08/21, Yonghae Lee was awarded the best thesis prize, and gave a speech on behalf of graduates at the graduation ceremony of Kyung Hee University (https://www.hankookilbo.com/News/Read/201908211239744673). Congratulations!
2019/08/12, Our collaborator, Dr Hayata Yamasaki had visited our group for 2 weeks.
2019/07/12, Soojoon Lee gave an invited talk at International Conference on Quantum Computing 2019, which was held in Seoul, Korea.
2019/06/06, Soojoon Lee began serving as an Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports.