Tuskegee University team is 2023 recipient of $100,000 IBM-SPIE HBCU Faculty Accelerator Award in Quantum Optics and Photonics

BELLINGHAM, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and the IBM-HBCU Quantum Center have selected a group of researchers and educators at Tuskegee University as this year’s recipient of the IBM-SPIE HBCU Faculty Accelerator Award in Quantum Optics and Photonics. The group includes the head of the university’s physics department Akshaya Kumar; Dimitar Dimitrov, a fellow physicist and committed student mentor; Fan Wu, who facilitates cutting-edge computat