By Ethan Wang ’26 with Wendy Plump
Department of Chemistry
Together, Ethan Wang ’26, an economics concentrator, and Wonju Lee, whose college career pauses as he serves in the South Korean Marine Corps, documented their year of learning quantum computing at Princeton Chemistry in our Quantum Bootcamp series. (Here are columns one, two, three, four, five.) In this, the sixth and final column, we offer a Q&A with Wang for a little perspective on what he’s learned.
The originator of and instructor for the project, postdoc Benjamin Lienhard of the Rabitz Group, will teach a quantum computing Wintersession program with Wang this month. A testimony to the subject’s appeal, the session is oversubscribed and a wait list is in place. In the meantime, enjoy this piece as encouragement for novice quantum students everywhere.