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Samsung and IISc open a new lab for quantum research in India

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October 20, 2026 by Ivy Delaney

Samsung Semiconductor India Research and the Indian Institute of Science have established a Quantum Technology Lab, a collaboration designed to bolster India’s quantum research capabilities. Led by Prof. Mayank Shrivastava of the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering at IISc, the lab will support dozens of students annually in physics, engineering, computer science and mathematics.

Balajee Sowrirajan, CVP & MD of SSIR, stated this partnership is “to spearhead breakthroughs in quantum technologies, by empowering a skilled workforce, fostering collaborative innovation, strengthening national competitiveness, and transforming industries with significant societal impact.” The new facility will focus on integrating key quantum components and addressing reliability challenges, aiming to position India as a global competitor in quantum innovation.

Prof. Mayank Shrivastava will lead the newly established Quantum Technology Lab at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), focusing on integrating cryogenic control chips with qubits, single photon sources and detectors to address critical reliability challenges in quantum technologies. This specialized infrastructure will not remain confined to IISc. The lab is designed to support faculty members from other colleges and institutions lacking resources for capital-intensive quantum research.

The collaboration between IISc and Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR) aims to support a dynamic ecosystem for interdisciplinary research and knowledge exchange, extending beyond purely academic pursuits. Govindan Rangarajan, Director of IISc.

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Rangarajan stated, “IISc has emerged as a leading hub for quantum technologies research. This new Quantum Technology Lab at IISc highlights our commitment to emerging and futuristic research threads.” He continued that this collaboration with SSIR will strengthen the Institute’s infrastructure and expertise, providing students and researchers with a unique opportunity to explore the possibilities of quantum technologies.

The lab’s design prioritizes a platform for industry collaborations, aiming to cultivate an environment for innovation and ultimately position India as a competitive force in the global quantum landscape. The facility’s significance extends beyond scientific advancement, with the potential to drive socio-economic growth through the application of quantum technologies.

Our partnership with IISc for the establishment of the Quantum Technology Lab is to spearhead breakthroughs in quantum technologies, by empowering skilled workforce, fostering a collaborative innovation, strengthening national competitiveness, and transforming industries with significant societal impact.

Balajee Sowrirajan, CVP & MD of SSIR
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Ivy Delaney has been working with neural networks and machine learning since the mid-nineties, back when a couple of hidden layers and a long afternoon of training counted as ambitious. She has watched the field go from academic curiosity to the thing quietly running underneath everything, and she brings that long view to quantum computing. For Quantum Zeitgeist she covers the ground where the two fields meet. That means quantum machine learning and the variational algorithms it leans on, and it also means the less glamorous but more interesting story of classical machine learning already doing real work inside quantum machines, decoding error-correcting codes, calibrating noisy hardware and learning the error models that simulators depend on. She writes about the hardware those algorithms have to run on too, and about the post-quantum cryptography scramble that the same hardware has set off. Her stories typically start with the paper, whether that is peer-reviewed work, conference proceedings or an arXiv preprint, with the source linked so you can hold a claim up against the research it came from. She is unimpressed by benchmarks that will not say what they beat, and by demonstrations that only work in the press release.

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