Ding receives IEEE QTC Distinguished Early Career Award
Yongshan Ding, assistant professor of computer science, is the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Quantum Technical Community (QTC) Distinguished Early Career Award, with the citation: “For outstanding contributions in quantum computing and engineering.” This honor is presented annually to an early-career researcher who has made contributions above and beyond those considered normal for a person at such an early stage.
Ding’s research tackles a fundamental question in quantum computing: how can imperfect quantum machines operate reliably and efficiently? Ding’s approach is to design intelligent software that works hand in hand with hardware. His group develops compiler, runtime, error-mitigation/correction tools that draw out the best capabilities of quantum devices, making them more programmable, more performant, and more fault tolerant. The ultimate goal is to close the gap between today’s limited hardware and the transformative potential of large-scale quantum computing.
The IEEE QTC Distinguished Early Career Award follows Ding’s recognition last year with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, which supports his work on designing the foundational building blocks of scalable quantum systems. His CAREER project focuses on how to orchestrate quantum operations across both software and hardware layers, ensuring that limited and error-prone devices can be used effectively while laying the groundwork for more powerful systems in the future. Central to this project is translating theory into practice: his research realizes novel error correction codes not just as theoretical constructs, but as functional components of working quantum systems.
Beyond his research, Ding is the co-author of the textbook Quantum Computer Systems: Research for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers (Morgan & Claypool, 2020), serves as a key member of the Yale Quantum Institute, and leads Yale’s new Certificate in Quantum Science and Engineering, launched in fall 2025, which aims to prepare Yale students to meet the surging demand for quantum expertise.
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Sep 17, 2025
