School of Interdisciplinary Engineering & Sciences

Quantum Computing Lab

Quantum Advantage for Information and Discovery Lab at SINES NUST undertakes pursuits where quantum information is employed for artificial intelligence and scientific discovery tasks, hence its acronym – QUAID. True to its acronym (which also means “The Leader”), its mission is to be at the forefront of quantum discovery and computing and to develop use-cases for quantum computing and information.

PI’s Profiles:

Dr Imran Akhtar from SINES NUST is the principal investigator (PI) of  QUAID Lab. The Lab is also being co-supervised by Dr Hammad Tanveer Butt from College of EME and Dr Faisal Shafait from SEECS, who are Co-PIs.

Dr Hammad Tanveer Buttare PhD in Computer Science from TU Kaisersalutern, Germany.

Dr Faisal Shafait are PhD in Computer Science from TU Kaisersalutern, Germany.

Expertise/Capabilities of lab:

  1. Modeling and Design of a Quantum Processor.
  2. Quantum Cryptanalysis
  3. Quantum Machine Learning / AI
  4. Quantum Computing for CFD
  5. Quantum Computing for Bioinformatics

Lab Equipment /Resources:

  1. Cloud access to IBM Quantum
  2. Access to HPC SINES
  3. Qiskit, PennyLane
  4. Tensorflow Quantum

Projects:

  1. Framework and Resource Estimate for Quantum Cryptanalysis.   This project of QUAID Lab is in collaboration with M/s National Systems, Islamabad and focuses on demonstration of quantum resource estimates needed to implement Grover’s algorithm for an exhaustive search of candidate keys used in symmetric encryption.
  2. Design of a scalable Superconducting Quantum Processor.       For the first time in Pakistan, we are trying to design a Quantum Processor for quantum computing. Currently, a layout of a 4-qubit Quantum Processor has been accomplished and EM simulations to derive quantum Hamiltonian are in process.
  3. Quantum computing for CFD. Quantum computing algorithm are a boon for computational fluid dynamics. The aim of this project is to implement a quantum algorithm and quantum machine learning framework for CFD use-cases.
Miscellaneous
  1. Subject Matter Expert on Quantum Key Distribution Project. Dr Hammad Tanveer Butt (Co-PI) is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Quantum Key Distribution Project as well as Quantum Cryptanalysis undertaken by M/s National Systems, Islamabad.

Human Resources:

Typical Enrollment of lab researchers: 2-3 researchers/interns

Contact Us:

Dr Hammad Tanveer Butt
Email: [email protected]
Contact No.: 0321-5372460