IIT Madras becomes first Indian institute to join IBM Quantum Network

IIT Madras becomes first Indian institute to join IBM Quantum Network: IBM On 12th September 2022, announced that Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) has become the first Indian institution to join the IBM Quantum Network to advance quantum computing skills development and research in India.

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IIT Madras will be a member of the IBM Quantum Network. IIT Madras will have cloud-based access to IBM’s most advanced quantum computing systems and IBM’s quantum expertise to explore practical applications and realize the wide-ranging benefits of this technology for business and society.

IIT Madras will focus on advancing core algorithms in research areas including Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Optimization, and applications research in finance. In 2021, IIT Madras joined IBM’s Quantum Education Program in order to offer its students and faculty access to IBM quantum learning resources, quantum tools, and quantum systems for education and research purposes. IBM Quantum and IIT Madras became a part of offering a course on quantum computing on the NPTEL Platform to more than 10,000 participants in August 2021.