{"id":4534,"date":"2026-04-09T15:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T19:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/?p=4534"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:52:42","slug":"solving-combinatorial-optimization-with-qc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/2026\/04\/solving-combinatorial-optimization-with-qc\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving Combinatorial Optimization with QC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<article style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color: #333;line-height: 1.6;max-width: 800px;margin: 0 auto;padding: 10px 0\">\n\n    <table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;margin-bottom: 30px;border: none\">\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;width: 160px;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Vision<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #444;vertical-align: top\">Explore how quantum computing can be applied to combinatorial optimization in a practical and meaningful way.  The project began with building a strong foundation in quantum computing concepts, Qiskit, and optimization methods, and it has now evolved toward implementation and demonstration.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Mission<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #444;vertical-align: top\">The mission of this project is to build and apply the skills needed to solve selected optimization problems with quantum computing tools. We are doing this by studying relevant theory, implementing algorithms such as QAOA in Qiskit, testing them on small benchmark problems, and presenting our progress and results clearly as a team.<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;width: 160px;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Team Members<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #111;vertical-align: top\">Hanwen Xing, Matteo Johnson, and Anthony Gelasi<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n        \n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Client<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;color: #111;vertical-align: top\">Dr. Zulal Sevkli<\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n\n        <tr style=\"border-bottom: 1px solid #eee\">\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 0;font-weight: bold;color: #666;vertical-align: top;text-transform: uppercase;font-size: 13px;letter-spacing: 0.5px\">Site<\/td>\n            <td style=\"padding: 15px 10px;vertical-align: top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xinghanwen2.github.io\/Solving-Combinatorial-Optimization-with-Quantum-Computers\/index.html\" style=\"color: #005a8d;text-decoration: underline;font-weight: 500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Page<\/a><\/td>\n        <\/tr>\n    <\/table>\n\n    <nav style=\"font-size: 14px;margin-top: 40px;border-top: 1px solid #eee;padding-top: 20px\">\n        <a href=\"spring-2026-project-list\" style=\"color: #005a8d;text-decoration: none;font-weight: 500\">&laquo; Back to Project List<\/a> \n        <span style=\"margin: 0 15px;color: #ccc\">|<\/span>\n        <a href=\"spring-2026-qa-schedule\" style=\"color: #005a8d;text-decoration: none;font-weight: 500\">Q&amp;A Schedule &raquo;<\/a>\n    <\/nav>\n\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Solving Combinatorial Optimization with Quantum Computers\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B8h43FhLsH4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore how quantum computing can be applied to combinatorial optimization in a practical and meaningful way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3017,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,40,104],"tags":[116,118],"class_list":["post-4534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","category-faculty","category-rd","category-spring-2026","tag-qtm","tag-rd","post_format-post-format-chat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3017"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4534\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/cse-senior-design-expo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}