Team PauliZ with team members Alapan Chaudhuri, (CSD UG3);  Kushagra Garg, (CND UG3); Rutvij Menavlikar, (CSD UG3); Shreyas Pradhanm (CND UG3) and Zeeshan Ahmed, (CSD UG3) secured first place in Quantum Chemistry Challenge of QHack 2022 conducted from 14 – 25 February. The team won two spots for one month summer internships in Tokyo with QunaSys. Prof Shantanav Chakraborty, CQST, and Aditya Morolia, DD5 CND student working  under the supervision of Prof. Shantanav Chakraborty guided Team PauliZ in their project work.

QHack is a quantum computing hackathon organized by Xanadu with participation from 100+ countries with 800+ teams and 24 sponsors (including IBM Quantum, Google Quantum AI and more).

Every year, QHack brings together people from all over the world to celebrate quantum computing. QHack 2022 was bigger, better, and groovier than ever; featuring world-class live stream talks, coding challenges, an open-hackathon, a design competition, a meme contest, and life-changing prizes.

QHack website: https://medium.com/xanaduai/qhack-2022-cb5ad92573e2