Unlocking Quantum Potential: How AI is Contributing to the Future of Quantum Technologies and Society

“Seeing the Quantum World through the Eyes of AI.” A deep neural network receives experimental data from a quantum system, such as an atom, a molecule, or a particle of light. The network is then asked to form its own representation of the state of the system, and to make predictions about the outcomes of future experiments. Through training, the network learns to create useful representations of the quantum world and to discover hidden properties of complex quantum systems made of many particles.

New devices in the Quantum Photonics Lab. Prof. Chiribella’s team runs a photonic laboratory for the experimental demonstration of fundamental quantum principles and new quantum devices based on them. Remarkably, this laboratory is the only quantum photonic laboratory worldwide to be hosted by a Computer Science department.

Making HKU an international hub for Quantum Information Science. In summer 2025, HKU celebrated the United Nations “Year of the Quantum” by hosting the 25th anniversary edition of the Asian Quantum Information Science Conference, the premier meeting for quantum information science in the Asia-Pacific region, in which Prof.