About the lab

Founded by Professor Don Towsley in 2022, ACQuIRe focusses on researching advanced topics in classical and quantum information systems and networks, and secure communications. Located at the Manning College of Information and Computer Science, ACQuIRe is also part of the multi-institutional NSF funded Center for Quantum Networks.

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Kenneth's poster presentation at the QuNew conference

07/19/2023

Kenneth will be presenting a poster at the Quantum Networks Workshop at the Wylie Center and Tupper Manor at Endicott College, near Boston between July 19 and 21, 2023 Read more...

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Professor Towsley's keynote talk at Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC)

06/22/2023

Professor Towsley is presenting a keynote on the Quantum Internet: Recent Advancements and Challenges, on June 22nd 2023. The talk will present recent results, opportunities, and challenges for quantum networks, and will focus on similarities to, and differences from classical networks. Read more...

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Prateek and Shahrooz elected as members of CQN's Student Leadership Council

04/1/2023

Prateek and Shahrooz have been elected as the members of the Student Leadership Council (SLC) of the NSF funded Centre of Quantum Networks. Prateek will serve as the Vice-Chair assisting in managing all SLC activities, while Shahrooz will serve as the Innovation Ecosystem Officer where he will be a bridge between students from our CQN project colleges and companies supporting CQN. Congratulations to Shahrooz! Read more...

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Shahrooz Pouryousef interning at Cisco's Quantum Lab

05/1/2023

Shahrooz started started his summer internship at Cisco quantum lab, where he will collaborate with Hassan Shapourian and Alireza Shabani on how to plan quantum networks to maximize quantum utility. Read more...

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Two Lab members presented their works in IEEE INFOCOM 2023 conference

05/18/2023

Nitish Panigrahy presented their work on the Capacity Region of a Quantum Switch with Entanglement Purification, and Shahrooz presented their work on A Quantum Overlay Network for Efficient Entanglement Distribution. Congratulations to both for their amazing talks! Read more...

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Kenneth visit at the University of Arizona

06/16/2023

Kenneth visited the Guha group at the University of Arizona in May 2023, where he presented his work at the AQuI seminar.

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Kenneth presented at Leiden University for the aQa seminar.

06/14/2023

Kenneth presented his work on Calculating average noise in repeater chains at Leiden University in the Netherlands as part of the aQa Seminar on June 14, 2023 Read more...

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Janice receives 2023 Donald F. Towsley Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science

06/16/2023

Created in 2019 to honor Professor Don Towsley, this scholarship provides support to a student pursuing a PhD in Computer Science whose research interests lie in networking science, measurements and performance analysis. Read more...

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Matheus receives CICS Portfolio Distinction Award

06/16/2023

CICS graduate students are required to pass a portfolio as qualifying exam. Once the portfolios are received, the Graduate Program Committee carefully evaluates them and makes its recommendations to the faculty. The faculty voted that Matheus's portfolio met a high standard of completion and was awarded distinction. Read more...