Quantum Game Club

A community of engineers and scientists interacting with quantum computers and creating games and interfaces.

Our Story

The idea of “The Quantum Game Club” is to form a community of engineers and scientists and provide them with the necessary education and resources to have fun interacting with quantum machines and create games and interfaces. We work with leading companies in quantum space including Microsoft, IonQ, and Quantum Computing Inc., as well as research labs actively working to develop state-of-the-art virtual and physical layers of future quantum systems.

Our mission is to create and foster a diverse community of intellectual engineers and scientists by providing the necessary education and resources to have fun inventing quantum activities and to share knowledge and excitement while interacting with quantum machines and concepts. We envision developing device abstraction concepts and human-machine interfaces related to quantum technologies.

What We Do

Education

In collaboration with Microsoft Azure Quantum, Entanglement Institute, and IonQ, we help create a community of scientists, engineers, and hobbyists who can develop projects that can be run on a quantum computer. We teach basic quantum concepts and provide necessary resources, including free access to a quantum computer, where students will work in groups to develop creative quantum-based ideas.

Research

The objective of the Quantum Game Club for its students is to transition from theoretical knowledge to practical implementation. Research projects provide tangible outcomes that can be showcased to prospective employers or academic programs, further assisting members in their careers in quantum computation. Collaborations on these projects also serve as an introduction for newer members to critical skills such as problem-solving and teamwork, all while contributing to the field through publication and conference presentations.

Outreach

The quantum computing industry allocates considerable resources toward education. Our industry collaborators engage in both informal and formal learning activities with the club by presenting workshops and seminars to our students and even mentoring some of them. These track records show the collaborative nature of the field and how the industry is pushing the adoption of quantum programming skills by supporting collaborative projects.

Meet the Team

Quantum Game Club consists of leaders and innovators from the IQ-PARC team.

Professor Hosseini is an experimental quantum physicist and engineer and a faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern University. His research is on the development of quantum optical devices and systems for future quantum communication and sensing technology.

Dongyang Li is a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering and the current president of Quantum Game Club. As a member of a quantum workforce development initiative at Purdue University and Northwestern University, Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC), Dongyang worked to address the education and access gap in quantum technologies. Dongyang holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University.