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ELMSFORD, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SEEQC, the Digital Quantum Computing company, today announced the addition of a scientific advisory board to its leadership. This addition comes at a time when the company is unveiling a new brand identity and expanding its team internationally, including the appointment of Shu-Jen Han as its vice president of engineering.

Scientific Advisory Board

SEEQCs new scientific advisory board consists of leading academics from across the world, including Javad Shabani, assistant professor of physics at NYU, professors from the University of Napoli Federico II, Francesco Tafuri and Giovanni Piero Pepe, and Maxim Vavilov, professor at the University of Wisconsin.

The company instituted this board of quantum scientists to guide SEEQCs team as they continue their mission to solve quantum computings' most challenging problems. The board will help ensure that SEEQC bases its products, research and development on sound scientific data.

By integrating this team of scientists into SEEQCs product roadmap, the company can internally peer-review its research and development and receive feedback and scientific advice more quickly than other commercial entities. This ensures that the company is receiving proper oversight and quality consultation as it advances its technological discoveries expanding quantums reach from academia to real-world application.

The fact that half of my fellow board members work in foreign universities, and many of us have international backgrounds, should not be overlooked. SEEQC is an international company, and it is incorporating that element of itself at every level, said advisory board member, Francesco Tafuri. By bringing together this group of international scientists, SEEQC is getting access to even more experience than by engaging exclusively with American universities. These individuals bring a rich and diverse history of scientific research and experience to the company with them.

Appointing New Vice President of Engineering

In addition to expanding its leadership with the advisory board, SEEQC has also appointed industry veteran Dr. Shu-Jen Han as its vice president of engineering. Han brings more than a decade of experience in the nanotechnology and semiconductor industry to SEEQC, as well as world-class expertise in logic and memory chip-making a critical component of scaling the companys system-on-a-chip quantum design.

Han started his career at IBM working in the semiconductor sector after receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University, later he managed the nanoscale device and technology group at IBMs T. J. Watson Research Center working on world-leading post-silicon transistor research. Han has valuable experience in advancing complex semiconductor chip technology from basic research to product qualification both as a director and later as senior director at HFC Semiconductors Advanced Memory Technology Division. He has authored over 90 technical publications, two book chapters and over 150 issued US patents.

Were thrilled to formally welcome Shu-Jen to SEEQC, and I am excited by the leadership and expertise hell bring to our global team of quantum engineers and researchers, said John Levy, CEO of SEEQC. Shu-Jen is one of the foremost minds in the semiconductor research and development world were grateful he chose to join SEEQC and our mission to bring scalable quantum computing to the enterprise world.

In his new role, Han will help build a scalable research and development organization, lead SEEQCs multi-disciplinary engineering groups and establish a clear roadmap for its commercialization. He also oversees the day-to-day operations of the companys newly renovated chip foundry, a fully operational chip manufacturing facility focusing on superconducting quantum and classic electronics.

Renewed Brand Commitment

As the company continues to evolve its technology and business model, it is also evolving its unique brand. Under the guidance of its creative director, Fredrik Carlstrm, SEEQC is rededicating itself to its original goal and mission statement under renewed branding and communication initiatives.

SEEQC was built upon the premise of approaching quantum differently than its predecessors and counterparts, and its new brand reflects that. The brand takes into account SEEQCs unique team, the integrated process in which design, manufacturing and testing are all done in-house, resulting in a unique approach to building a scalable quantum computer.

The new brand reflects SEEQC at its core not only as a company name but as an acronym: Scalable, Energy-Efficient Quantum Computing. Other aspects of the companys brand portfolio have been updated to evince different aspects of the companys technology. SEEQCs visuals evoke a feeling of efficiency, purpose and a close relationship with nature, just as its end-product uses elements of nature to solve classically intractable problems and address the worlds greatest challenges.

The new design and communication are a mirror image of SEEQCs approach to building scalable, re-configurable quantum computers around a family of chips designed to support a host of high-value problems for clients today, said Carlstrm. We want the brand we put forward to show what were really about and to show our ethos in everything we do from the design of our hardware and software to our offices, facilities, website and brand identity.

Partnership with QuantWare

To further advance its technology, SEEQC has partnered with Dutch quantum startup QuantWare. With additional support from the University of Napoli Federico II, the companies will co-develop an advanced Quantum Processor Unit (QPU) with integrated cryogenic digital control logic. This partnership combines SEEQCs proprietary platform with QuantWares scalable QPU design, resulting in the worlds first commercially available platform, capable of overcoming key scalability engineering challenges.

About SEEQC:

SEEQC is developing the first fully digital quantum computing platform for global businesses. SEEQC combines classical and quantum technologies to address the efficiency, stability and cost issues endemic to quantum computing systems. The company applies classical and quantum technology through digital readout and control technology and a unique chip-scale architecture. SEEQCs quantum system provides the energy- and cost-efficiency, speed and digital control required to make quantum computing useful and bring the first commercially-scalable, problem-specific quantum computing applications to market.

The company is one of the first companies to have built a superconductor multi-layer commercial chip foundry and through this experience has the infrastructure in place for design, testing and manufacturing of quantum-ready superconductors. SEEQC is a spin-out of HYPRES, the worlds leading developer of superconductor electronics. SEEQCs team of executives and scientists have deep expertise and experience in commercial superconductive computing solutions and quantum computing. SEEQC is based in Elmsford, NY with facilities in London, UK and Naples, Italy.

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Employees are increasingly accessing corporate information and accounts from their personal phones. As a result, SMiShing attacks now pose a serious threat to corporate information. How serious is this threat? Consider this statistic; 20% of energy industry employees were exposed to a mobile phishing attack in the first half of 2021. That is a 161% increase from the second half of 2020. Across the board, companies lost an alarming $54,241,075 because of social attacksincluding SMiShing according to the 2020 FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center report.

The word SMiShing comes from combining SMS (Short Message Service), the technology behind texting, with phishing, the practice of stealing personal or financial information through deceptive emails. Basically, SMiShing is phishing but by another means, namely text messages on mobile devices.

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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Rock Island District will get $1.2 billion in Fiscal Year 2022, as a result of federal funding in two recently enacted laws the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; and the 2022 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act.

The $1.2 billion for the Rock Island District will enable it to carry out projects and programs in the Upper Mississippi River Valley.

This is a historic day for the Rock Island District, Col. Jesse Curry, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, said in a Thursday release. This represents funding that vastly outnumbers figures our Districts annual budget has ever seen. Its testament to our professional workforce that they are trusted to carry out the kind of workload this funding will bring.

Rock Island District is set to receive two priority construction new starts, one through the Navigation and Ecosystem Sustainability Program (NESP) and new start funding for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project.

NESP has been authorized for more than a decade, awaiting construction funding to bring about this critical, multi-billion dollar program, said Kim Thomas, Deputy for Programs and Project Management for the Rock Island District. Our regional team has fully utilized several years of preconstruction, engineering and design (PED) funds to develop construction ready projects and now will be able to start delivering on the significant navigation improvements as well as the environmental enhancements laid out within the NESP authorization. This funding is the first step toward construction.

The Brandon Road Interbasin Project, which is designed to stop the spread of invasive carp and other species into the Great Lakes, received $226 million to complete the preconstruction, engineering and design phase (PED) and initiate construction.

Support for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, which is a complex ecosystem protection effort designed to prevent upstream movement of invasive carp and other aquatic nuisance species into the Great Lakes from the Illinois Waterway, is also a key element for keeping one of Rock Island Districts critical environmental efforts on track with continued design and its anticipated construction timeline, Thomas said.

TheBrandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, Ill., has been identified as the critical pinch point where layered technologies could be used to prevent movement of invasive carp populations into the Great Lakes.

Pre-construction engineering and design of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project was initiated Dec. 29, 2020, when the state of Illinois signed a design agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District. This phase of the project, known as PED, is estimated to last three years, cost $28.9 million, and be cost shared 65 percent federal, 35 percent non-federal.

In addition to the new start construction funding, Rock Island District will receive nearly $170 million to carry on critical operations and maintenance work through the Districts area of responsibility.

So much of our operational infrastructure, like locks and dams, lakes, and recreation sites, are aging, Curry said. Our managers and maintenance crews do an excellent job of keeping this infrastructure operating efficiently but even in areas where weve made recent investments, there is a need for more to safeguard long term reliability of this infrastructure. Infrastructure that is critical to our nations economy, environment, and well-being of our communities.

This new funding coming from the IIJA will not only provide much of that needed investment to infrastructure, but it will also bring thousands of great jobs of all types to the region, he added.

Rock Island District encompasses large portions of Illinois and Iowa, as well as smaller sections of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Missouri. It operates three flood risk management reservoirs in Iowa two in the Des Moines area (Saylorville Lake and Lake Red Rock), as well as one outside Iowa City at Coralville Lake. The District also operates and maintains 12 locks and dams on the Mississippi River, starting at Lock & Dam 11 in Dubuque and ending at Lock & Dam 22 in Saverton, Mo.

Each spending plan will be in continued support of Administration goals of expanded access to Americas ports through dredging, as well as building resilience in the face of global climate change, while benefitting economically disadvantaged communities and regions, and advancing environmental justice, the release said.

The Army will work with community partners to leverage these historic Civil Works funds for investments that strengthen national supply chains through our commercial navigation mission, help communities impacted by climate change to increase their resiliency, advance environmental justice, and invest in communities that have too often been left behind, said Michael L. Connor, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.

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Civil, Maritime & Environmental Engineering

Location: Highfield CampusClosing Date: Friday 25 February 2022Reference: 1667622DA

Supervisory Team: Adam Sobey (CMEE), Markus Brede (ECS) and Amy Parkes (Industry)

Data driven modelling of supply chain constraints in maritime transport

Project description

Recent incidents, such as the blocking of the Suez Canal or lack of workers at Chinese ports due to COVID, demonstrate the importance of maritime trade. Ships carry >90% of world trade, moving 3.5 billion tonnes of cargo (expected to triple by 2050) and 350 million passengers through 1,200 ports every year. These goods and people are carried by ~56,000 merchant ships ranging from small domestic ferries to 400m long containerships which transport 23,000 shipping containers at a time. The result of this is a complex flow network defined by port capacities, trade requirements, and routing choices of a large number of diverse ships. It is vital that we become more efficient in how we move goods around the world and that the resilience in these shipping networks is maintained and increased.

Understanding and optimising these large networks is a challenging task, due to the size and the number of follow-on effects that cascade from an initial decision. We need to simplify these networks, without loss of information, to allow clear decision making and to ensure that we understand the implications of decisions made around where to deliver goods and in what timeframe.

In this interdisciplinary project you will develop novel tools at the boundary between complexity science, supply chain theory and maritime engineering, to explore shipping networks to optimise the behaviour of ships with an aim to enhancing resilience and reducing the complexity of the network.

You will be supported by the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute as part of a cohort of multi-disciplinary SMMI scholars. Supervision will be provided by Adam Sobey in the Maritime Engineering group and Markus Brede in the Agents, Interaction and Complexity groups at the University of Southampton. In addition you will work closely with the Marine and Maritime group, in the Data-Centric Engineering Programme in The Alan Turing Institute, the UKs national AI institute.

The project is also supported by Arcsilea, who provide bespoke consultancy to inform maritime policy on decarbonisation, with industrial supervision provided by Dr Amy Parkes. However, we want you to help us grow the network of partners through the project using early research to generate wider interest from the maritime industries and those who use shipping to transport goods.

We are looking for a driven candidate with expertise in, or interest in learning about, Data Driven Modelling, Machine Learning, Networks, Complexity Science and Maritime transport. Wed particularly like to see candidates interested in making real world changes to reduce maritime emissions through development of world-leading fundamental approaches in complexity science.

Entry Requirements

A very good undergraduate degree (at least a UK 2:1 honours degree, or its international equivalent).

Closing date: 25 February 2022

Funding: For UK students, Tuition Fees and a stipend of 15,609 tax-free per annum for up to 3.5 years.

How To Apply

Apply online https://www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/how-to-apply/postgraduate-applications.page. Select programme type (Research), 2022/23, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, next page select PhD Engineering & Environment (Full time). In Section 2 of the application form you should insert the name of the supervisor Adam Sobey

Applications should include:

For further information please contact: feps-pgr-apply@soton.ac.uk

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