Congratulations to Andrew Reynoso, a rising third-year Physics graduate student in the Rubenstein Group, for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! Andrew is working on new approaches for many-body nonequilibrium phase transitions.

Team QUICK, Quantum-Informed Simulations of Covalent Kinase Inhibitors, led by Professor Rubenstein has won the first round of the NIH Quantum Computing Grand Challenge. Members of Team QUICK also include Norman Tubman, Grant Rotskoff, Ryan LaRose, James Fraser, and David Delgado.

Motivated by our extensive work in Computational Biology and Quantum Computing, our group is deeply invested in understanding how today’s quantum computers can be used to model and simulate biologically relevant systems.

We develop new, high-accuracy approaches for studying the electronic structure of solid state materials, heterogeneous catalysts, and molecules. We are known for our stochastic methods both for ground state and finite temperature problems that determine quantum properties using random numbers.