News

Latest and selective updates from the group.

🎈 Dec 2025: We welcome our new postdoc researcher, Dr. Mushir Thodika. Mushir has a lot of experience in quantum chemistry and material simulation. We have many plans to work together on quantum computing applications. Welcome Mushir!

🎉 Dec 2025: Prince does it again! Congratulations Prince, for winning the Graduate Student Travel award from UND. He will attend the APS March meeting in Denver.

🎉 May 2025: Many congratulations to Prince for winning the Graduate Student Travel award from the Division of Research and Economic development at UND. He will attend the Mid-west theoretical chemistry conference at Wayne State University.

🎤 April 2025: Ayush is grateful to be hosted by University of Minnesota for a quantum information talk.

🎤 March 2025: The wavefunction of Asthana group collapsed at APS global meeting in Anaheim, CA.

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🎉 March 2025: Check out Prince's new paper on the generalized eigenvalue problem in excited state methods for quantum computers: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09670. Congrats Prince.

🎉 Nov 2024: NSF Epscor Fellow grant awarded to Asthana group. NSF Epscor Fellow award will allow us to collaborate with Dr. Bo Peng at PNNL and develop quantum algorithms for early fault-tolerant quantum computers. NSF award.

🎈 Sept 2024: New undergraduate student joins the group (who will work in collaboration with Yen Lee Loh). Welcome Sean!

🎤 Sept 2024: Ayush delivered keynote talk in IEEE Quantum week workshop on "Chemical Applications of Quantum Computing".

🎉 Sept 2024: First NSF grant awarded to Asthana group. NSF ExpandQISE award in collaboration with Prof. Ed Barnes and Prof. Sophia Economou from Virginia Tech. NSF award.

🎈 Aug 2024: New graduate student joins the group. Welcome Olusayo!

🎈 July 2024: We welcome our new postdoc researcher, Dr. Srivathsan Sundar. We will work together on quantum computing applications in chemistry. Welcome Sri!

🎤 March 2024: Ayush gave invited talks in APS March Meeting, NREL Questaal Workshop, Concordia College.

🎉 Nov 2023: New funding from UND early career grant in collaboration with Dr. Ahmed Abdelhadi (SEECS) and Dr. Mark Hoffmann (Chem). UND Today.

🎉 Nov 2023: Amazon Braket graciously provided quantum and classical hardware resources to Asthana group for research.

🎓 2023: Ayush gave invited talks in IEEE Quantum Week, IIT Bombay, TIFR Mumbai, University of Hyderabad, UND Physics.

🎈 Aug 2023: New graduate student, Prince Kwao, joined the lab. Welcome Prince!