SIPQNP 2026
Dates: February 19-20, 2026
Location: MIT Campus, Cambridge MA
Sponsored by: NSF Center for Quantum Networks
Program Committee
- Ryan Camacho, Brigham Young University
- Daniel Soh, University of Arizona
- Kanu Sinha, University of Arizona
- Brian Smith, University of Oregon
- Zheshen Zhang, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
- Saikat Guha, University of Maryland
Participants
| Name | Institution | Attending |
| Dan Kilper | Trinity College | Yes |
| Alexey Gorshkov | NIST | Yes |
| Zac Dutton | RTX BBN | Yes |
| Mo Soltani | RTX BBN | Yes |
| Prajit Dhara | RTX BBN | Yes |
| Prithwish Basu | RTX BBN | Yes |
| Allyson O’Brien | DARPA | Tentative |
| Babak Saif | NASA | Tentative |
| Ryan Camacho | BYU | Yes |
| Saikat Guha | UMD | Yes |
| Dirk Englund | MIT | Yes |
| Ulrik Andersen | DTU | Tentative |
| Sophia Economou | VTech | Yes |
| Daniel Soh | UArizona | Yes |
| Norbert Lutkenhaus | IQC | Tentative |
| Zheshen Zhang | UMich Ann Arbor | Yes |
| Linran Fan | UT Austin | Yes |
| Mohammad Hafezi | UMD | Yes |
| Dal Wilson | UArizona | Yes |
| Kanu Sinha | UArizona | Yes |
| Don Towsley | UMass Amherst | Yes |
| Brian Smith | UOregon | Yes |
| Raj Nehra | UMass Amherst | Yes |
| Stefan Krastanov | UMass Amherst | Yes |
| Animesh Datta | Warwick | Yes |
| Irina Novikova | WM | Tentative |
| Christos Gagatsos | UArizona | Tentative |
| Nicole Yunger Halpern | UMD | Yes |
| Sara Mouradian | UWashington | Yes |
| Janis Noetzel | TUM | Tentative |
| Chaohan Cui | UMD | Yes |
| Chao Li | MIT | Yes |
| Franco Wong | MIT | Yes |
| Aziza Suleymanzade | UC Berkeley | Yes |
| Robert Niffenegger | UMass Amherst | Yes |
| Ben Dixon | MIT-LL | Yes |
| Olivier Pfister | UVa | Yes |
| Raf Alexander | Xanadu | Tentative |
| Mehdi Namazi | Qunnect | Yes |
| Christine Wang | Diffraqtion | Yes |
| Norbert Linke | UMD | Yes |
| Siddharth Ramachandran | BU | Yes |
| Gayane Vardoyan | UMass Amherst | Tentative |
| Avik Dutt | UMD | Tentative |
| Filip Rozpedek | UMass Amherst | Yes |
| Christian Arez | ASU | Yes |
| Ranjith Nair | NUS | Tentative |
| Ed Barnes | VTech | Yes |
| Matt Shaw | JPL | Yes |
| Quntao Zhuang | USC | Yes |
| Oliver Slattery | NIST | Tentative |
| Don Boroson | MIT-LL | Tentative |
| Liang Jiang | U Chicago | Yes |
| Marko Loncar | Harvard | Tentative |
| Jungsang Kim | Duke | Yes |
| Sergey Polyakov | NIST | Tentative |
| Kartik Srinivasan | NIST | Tentative |
| Edo Waks | UMD | Yes |
| Paul Ampadu | NSF | Tentative |