High School Student Earns Accolades for Summer Research with Gorshkov Group
Jason Youm, a high school student who performed summer research with JQI Fellow Alexey Gorshkov, placed in the top dozen competitors in the physics and astronomy category at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). He presented research completed under the mentorship of Gorshkov and JQI graduate student Joseph Iosue where he performed calculations to help investigate how quantum computers can perform certain tasks significantly faster than their traditional counterparts.