Congratulations to my former PhD student Xiaoyuan Joey Liu for winning Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Achievement Award! Her thesis is titled "Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms on Quantum and Quantum Inspired Devices". Xiaoyuan is now a research scientist at Fujitsu working in the area of quantum computing. This award is given to a computer science graduate student in recognition of outstanding performance, and potential for future significant contribution to the field of computer science.
We solve algorithmic, modeling and computational problems in AI, machine learning, quantum computing, network science, graphs, combinatorial scientific computing and more.
Monday, May 23, 2022
Friday, August 21, 2020
New NSF grant to develop a simulator for quantum computing
NSF awarded grant to develop large-scale QAOA simulator! This is a collaborative project with the Yuri Alexeev@University of Chicago.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020
NSF grant to tackle COVID-19
Clemson news coverage: Artificial intelligence could aid in fight against COVID-19
Ilya Safro of @socclemson said that his team will soon roll out a new artificial intelligence system aimed at helping researchers explore the scientific literature as they strive for new discoveries to combat the novel coronavirus.https://t.co/TwQyZqEUra pic.twitter.com/fh3K8iAoWO
— Clemson Engineering, Computing & Applied Sciences (@ClemsonCECAS) April 21, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
From SoC@Clemson
Congrats to Dr. Ilya Safro on receiving funding from @DARPA to work on hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems, a 4 year collaborative research with @argonne. He is looking for Ph.D. students to join the Algorithms & Computational Science lab. pic.twitter.com/YfIYVc7HzO
— School of Computing (@socclemson) April 3, 2020
Friday, January 17, 2020
Congratulations to PhD student Ruslan Shaydulin
Congratulations to PhD student Ruslan Shaydulin, advised by Dr. Ilya Safro, for receiving 2020 Maria Goeppert Mayer fellowship for postdoctoral studies at Argonne National Lab. Ruslan will start in Fall 2020. He was selected among many candidates from top schools and different disciplines.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Multistart Methods for Quantum Approximate Optimization
Best student paper award at IEEE HPEC2019 goes to our lab! Congratulations to the leading student Ruslan Shaydulin!
Ruslan Shaydulin, Ilya Safro, Jeffrey Larson "Multistart Methods for Quantum Approximate Optimization", accepted at IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) 2019, preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.08768
Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms such as the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) are considered one of the most promising approaches for leveraging near-term quantum computers for practical applications. Such algorithms are often implemented in a variational form, combining classical optimization methods with a quantum machine to find parameters to maximize performance. The quality of the QAOA solution depends heavily on quality of the parameters produced by the classical optimizer. Moreover, multiple local optima in the space of parameters make it harder for the classical optimizer. In this paper we study the use of a multistart optimization approach within a QAOA framework to improve the performance of quantum machines on important graph clustering problems. We also demonstrate that reusing the optimal parameters from similar problems can improve the performance of classical optimization methods, expanding on similar results for MAXCUT.
Monday, November 26, 2018
Travel awards
Congratulations to Justin Sybrandt and Ruslan Shaydulin for receiving travel awards to present their papers at IEEE Big Data 2018 and APS 2018!
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Quantum Computing Quantum computers are expected to accelerate scientific discovery spanning many different areas such as medicine, AI, ...
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Quantum Computing Quantum computers are expected to accelerate scientific discovery spanning many different areas such as medicine, AI, ...
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We are excited to announce that our paper received the best student paper award at #IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing #HPEC2022! Leadi...
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We're pleased to share that our group has expanded with the addition of two PhD students. Bao Bach, joining from the Quantum Science an...