IonQ Earns Four Best Paper Awards Ahead of IEEE Quantum Week 2026 for Breakthroughs in AI, Hybrid Computing, and Life Sciences
IonQ received four Best Paper Awards ahead of IEEE Quantum Week 2026 (QCE, Sept. 13-18, Toronto), selected from 857 global research submissions — four of only 27 Best Paper honors at the flagship quantum computing and engineering conference. The winning papers were conducted with QuantumBasel, NVIDIA, Synopsys, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Kipu Quantum, spanning generative-AI-assisted optimization, quantum fine-tuning of foundation AI models, quantum-accelerated linear algebra, and protein folding on a 64-qubit trapped-ion processor aimed at drug discovery.
Key figures
- Best paper awards
- 4
- Conference submissions
- 857
- Two qubit gate fidelity
- 99.99% (2025 world record)
- Additional accepted papers
- 5
- Protein folding qubit count
- 64
- Claimed performance increase
- 20x
- Conference best paper honors
- 27
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