Post by Elias A. Lehman

Last Saturday Quantum Computing at Berkeley hosted the first undergrad-friendly Deep Tech Conference with the help of our industry partner Classiq Technologies. Here’s a bit about what went down: We received nearly 100 registrations, composed of new and familiar faces with attendees coming from as far as UPenn and all levels of higher educations. Extended Reality at Berkeley told us all about about the latest research in XR for workforce development, and how AR can help patients recover from strokes. Vivek Nair spoke on risings concern around privacy in the metaverse — his group identified >50k people with 94% accuracy with virtual motion data! SandboxAQ sent Ryder LiuLin and Favour Nerrise from their cryptography and navigation teams to share with us their cutting-edge research. Ieva Liepuoniute, Ph.D. from IBM presented on her chemistry simulations using IBM Quantum’s latest QPUs and what’s to come. Students from Undergraduate Lab @ Berkeley and Berkeley’s Society of Physics Students shared their work on representing quantum information classically. Finally, members of QCB’s machine learning and simulation teams (Owen Bardeen, Nathan Song, Jenny Chen, Samyak Surti, and Riley Peterlinz) gave a talk on their hard work this year. I’m so proud! I’m so glad to see people from backgrounds in physics, cryptography, AI, chemistry, and business congregate to trade ideas about the direction of technology. A special thank you to my Co-President Andris Huang for his effort behind this event. Also, thank you to QCB leadership for an amazing presidency. It’s been a pleasure growing this organization.