IIT Bombay And The University Of Chicago Collaborate To Advance Scientific And Technological Collaboration

On September 8, the governments of India and the United States announced that the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) has become an international partner of the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), which has its headquarters at the University of Chicago. An additional initiative that will foster collaboration in areas including quantum information science, climate and energy, advanced microelectronics, artificial intelligence, and data science is a new scientific and technology relationship between the University of Chicago and IIT Bombay.

At a discussion between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G20 summit in New Delhi, India, the quantum announcement was underlined. It restates the objectives of the US-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET): to strengthen and broaden our strategic collaboration in technology and the defence industry cooperation between our two governments, companies, and academic institutions.

IIT Bombay has joined CQE as one of just five international academic partners, which is a crucial aspect of the cooperation. CQE, an academic centre for developing quantum information science and engineering, is based at the University of Chicago and is supported by the Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, and the US Department of Energy.