QC@UCI first became an official UCI club during Fall 2019.
The idea of QC@UCI was born in the Summer of 2019 when Tony Tong and Omar Costa Hamido met in Switzerland at the Quantum Information for Developers summer school at ETH, Zürich.
Diptanshu Sikdar
Diptanshu is a third-year computer science student at UC Irvine. He is interested in quantum machine learning algorithms and has over four years of experience in the quantum software field.
President
Stewart Smith
Stewart is a a fourth-year computer science major. He is interested in the algorithmic and theoretical side of quantum computing.
Vice President
Krishna Vempati
Krishna is a third-year computer science major. He is passionate about AI applications, especially through the use of quantum and classical algorithms.
Treasurer
Computer Science
Arya Mhaiskar
Arya is a a third-year computer science student at UCI. She is intrigued by the unique approach of quantum computing, and in her free time, she enjoys biking, singing, and journaling.
Marketing Director
Sandy Irani
Sandy Irani is a full-time Computer Science professor at UC Irvine. She has been researching Quantum Computation with a special focus on Quantum Complexity Theory.
Advisor
Shion Fukuzawa
Shion is a PhD student in computer science at UC Irvine. He is interested in theoretical computer science, specifically computational geometry and quantum computing. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games, baking, and taking walks.
