Researchers win award for quantum circuit design and computing paper
July 31, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Collin Beaudoin, a graduate student in electrical engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his adviser, Swaroop Ghosh, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, received a Best Paper Award at the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (ISVLSI) Quantum Workshop. The forum, which took place July 7-9 in Greece, focused on advances in quantum circuit design and computing.
The paper, “Q-Fusion: Diffusing Quantum Circuits,” introduces a new method called Q-Fusion, which improves the efficiency of quantum circuits by designing them from scratch using diffusion models. The work contributes to the growing body of research dedicated to building robust and scalable quantum computing platforms.
“Designing quantum algorithms to solve domain-specific problems require strong theorical background,” Ghosh said. “As a result, the quantum algorithm development process is typically slow, requiring decades for just one impactful algorithm, which, in turn, is hampering the progress of quantum computing. We attempted to break that barrier in this paper by automating the search for quantum algorithms using artificial intelligence.”
The best paper award underscores Ghosh’s leadership in quantum and hardware security research. Earlier this year, Ghosh’s research group earned Best Paper Awards at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Great Lakes Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (GLSVLSI) and at the IEEE Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST).
“The Best Paper Award indicates that the quantum computing community trusts our approach as an important breakthrough in the area,” Ghosh said.
Beaudoin is currently completing an internship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute and will join Fairfield University as an assistant professor in fall 2025.
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- Collin Beaudoin and Swaroop Ghosh pose for headshots after winning the Best Paper award at the 2025 IEEE ISVLSI Quantum Workshop. Credit: Courtesy of Swaroop Ghosh, Collin Beaudoin.
