The recent introduction of cutting-edge conversational AI uniquely enables outreach and engineering workforce development (EWD) tools. To take advantage of this technological advancement, we developed ChatCQN, which enables people of all backgrounds to learn about scientific research developing at the Center for Quantum Networks (CQN). ChatCQN contains up-to-date knowledge of all papers associated with the CQN and provides a user-friendly way to interface with these papers. This tool is useful for experts to learn about work at the Center, as well as to help people new to the field — including students at the high school and college levels — learn about research for the first time. This work was spearheaded by Hunter Kemeny, a former CQN REU student, Aatmik Mallya, a graduate student at Yale, as well as, Adrian Ariton and Alexandru Ariton, who are currently visiting students with Professor Dirk Englund at MIT.

Here is a demo video showing some examples of how to use ChatCQN.

Hunter Kemeny – CEO of ChatTutor. Hunter graduated from Duke University in 2023 with a degree in Physics and is a former CQN REU. In addition to building next-generation educational software, he is an incoming PhD student in Quantum Science and Engineering at Harvard University. 

Aatmik Mallya – CTO of ChatTutor. Aatmik graduated from Arizona State University in 2023 with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics. He is currently a Computational Biology PhD student at Yale University and is passionate about using cutting-edge technology to bring high-quality education to all.

Adrian Ariton – Adrian Ariton and Alexandru Ariton are undergraduate students at Politechnica University of Bucharest and are visiting students at MIT working with Professor Dirk Englund on digital twins and computer vision.

Alexandru Ariton – Adrian Ariton and Alexandru Ariton are undergraduate students at Politechnica University of Bucharest and are visiting students at MIT working with Professor Dirk Englund on digital twins and computer vision.