Three Quantathons.
Four research domains.
One centre.
A student research group in quantum computing, and the people who run Quantathon.
A qubit holds every state until something measures it.
Gates in order. The maths becomes a program you can run.
Entangle two qubits and neither one has its own answer.
What we work on.
Work from student–faculty research groups at the SRM Qkrishi Centre of Excellence in Quantum Information and Computing. Four active lines, each with people on it now.
Portfolio optimisation
Variational methods applied to asset allocation, where the classical problem grows intractable fast.Anomaly detection
Quantum and hybrid models for finding the rare event in a large, noisy dataset.Data protection with QKD
Key distribution protocols, and what it takes to run one outside a lab.Infrastructure placement
Combinatorial optimisation on real city data, using metro station siting as the test case.
Publications and preprints are listed here as they are indexed.
9 ways in.
Each one has a faculty mentor, a student head, and its own task round. Move through them.
Quantum Finance
Pricing, portfolios and risk on quantum hardware — and an honest account of where the classical method still wins.
Explore this domain →Since 2022.
- 2022Founded
Established under the SRM Qkrishi Centre of Excellence in Quantum Information and Computing.
- 2023Quantathon 1.0
The first edition: six tracks taking students from quantum fundamentals to real-world problems over two days.
- 2024Quantathon 2.0
Run online with a prize pool backed by Polygon, ETHIndia, and Aptos. Teams of one to four, free to enter, judged on working submissions.
- —Quantathon 3.0
Open to any student regardless of experience, with teams of up to four. Projects spanned quantum algorithms, machine learning, cryptography, and applied optimisation.
Quantathon, 3 editions in.
Latest edition
Quantathon 3.0
Open to any student regardless of experience, with teams of up to four. Projects spanned quantum algorithms, machine learning, cryptography, and applied optimisation.15–18 October 2024
Quantathon 2.0
Run online with a prize pool backed by Polygon, ETHIndia, and Aptos. Teams of one to four, free to enter, judged on working submissions.18–19 August 2023
Quantathon 1.0
The first edition: six tracks taking students from quantum fundamentals to real-world problems over two days.
Partners
- Qkrishi — Industry partner to the centre
- IBM — Quantum research and certification
- AWS — Compute credits via MeitY QCAL grants
- QRACE — Academic research alliance
Member work.
Projects are published from member records once a mentor has approved them, so what appears here is work that was actually reviewed. Nothing is listed yet — this is the first cycle running on the new system.
Who runs it.
The roster is generated from member accounts, so it stays current instead of being maintained by hand. It fills in as faculty mentors, domain heads, and members are added.
Your state is still undecided.
Most members joined with no quantum background. What you need is comfort with programming and the patience to read something hard more than once.
- 01
Application
Background, interests, and a short written response. One evening.
- 02
Review
Read by the domain lead and its faculty mentor.
- 03
Task round
Real assigned work with a deadline, reviewed by a mentor. This is the round that decides it.
- 04
Conversation
A short talk about what you built and why.
- 05
Decision
Accepted, waitlisted, or a clear no.