Gao group (NUS)
- Institution
- National University of Singapore (NUS)
- Lab / Centre
- Department of Physics · Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) · qcrew (Quantum Circuits Research & Engineering Workgroup)
- Also
- Affiliated with Singapore's National Quantum Computing Hub ecosystem (CQT + A*STAR IHPC + NSCC)
- Location
- Singapore
- Group website
- https://quantumcrew.org/
Yvonne Gao's qcrew at NUS is a Yale-trained superconducting + circuit-QED + bosonic-code group anchoring Singapore's experimental superconducting quantum-computing capability. The lab builds microwave-cavity hardware and develops non-Gaussian bosonic states for error-mitigated information processing, with two 2025 PRX Quantum papers on cavity-coupled qubits and a 2024 Nature Communications result on transposition across light-matter interaction regimes. Gao is an NRF Fellow (2020) and NUS Presidential Young Professor; the group sits inside CQT and contributes to the superconducting thread of Singapore's National Quantum Computing Hub.
Current focus: Modular bosonic cQED devices for robust quantum computing — Per qcrew's own framing (quantumcrew.org): building modular quantum devices to enable robust quantum computing and explore novel phenomena in quantum physics, across three thrusts — expanding the bosonic cQED hardware toolbox, leveraging non-Gaussian bosonic states, and developing bosonic quantum information processing techniques.
Milestones
- 2025 Two PRX Quantum papers on single qubits coupled to cavities in the standard bosonic cQED architecture blog
- 2024 On-demand transposition across light-matter interaction regimes in bosonic cQED (Nature Communications) paper
- 2021-03 Review — Quantum information processing with bosonic qubits in circuit QED (Quantum Sci. Technol.) paper
People
- Yvonne Y. Gao — Principal Investigator (Associate Professor, NUS Physics; CQT PI; NUS Presidential Young Professor) (since 2020) ↗
Funding
- National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore — NRF Fellowship — Class of 2020 fellowship funding the qcrew programme at NUS
- NUS Presidential Young Professorship — University-level appointment funding lab start-up
- Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) — Host research centre — Gao is a CQT Principal Investigator
- National Quantum Computing Hub (NQCH) — Singapore national platform pooling CQT + A*STAR IHPC + NSCC for the superconducting QC stack
References
- Joshi, Noh, Gao — Quantum information processing with bosonic qubits in circuit QED (Quantum Sci. Technol. 6, 033001, 2021) (paper)
- qcrew group landing page — publications, members, current projects (blog)
- NUS Physics faculty page — title, awards, NRF Fellow status (blog)
- NUS News profile of Gao on returning from Yale to set up qcrew (press)
- National Quantum Computing Hub — Singapore national platform context (blog)