Michael Schleppy, a PhD student in Distinguished Professor Emina Soljanin's group, was offered an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. The award is highly prestigious, and this year, it was even more competitive because of the steep cuts in the NSF GRFP budget.
Michael's research proposal, "Quantum Games for Cryptographic and Distributed Communication Applications," focuses on quantum games as a framework to explore and design secure, robust, and efficient protocols even when using untrusted devices. The proposal has a strong educational component. By extracting the core principles and presenting them in an accessible format as quantum and classical games, we can teach high school students and early undergraduates many fundamental concepts from quantum information science.
Congratulations to Michael and Emina!
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
