Li wins IEEE Best Paper award
Jr-Shin Li and doctoral student Yuan-Hung Kuan honored for quantum control research
Jr-Shin Li, the Newton R. and Sarah Louisa Glasgow Wilson Professor of Electrical & Systems Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, won the Best Paper award at the annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Conference on Quantum Control, Computing and Learning (IEEE qCCL) held July 1-3, 2026.
Li’s paper, “Quantum Ensemble Control in Bose-Einstein Condensates,” was co-authored by Yuan-Hung Kuan, a doctoral student in electrical & systems engineering. In this paper, Li and Kuan investigate the quantum ensemble control problem of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), within the Gross–Pitaevskii (GP) framework. Their research introduces a novel approach for controlling BECs exhibiting internal and external heterogeneities in system dynamics by mapping infinite-dimensional GP dynamics into a separable Hilbert space through a moment operator. This method enables analytically and numerically tractable control scenarios in a finite-dimensional moment-kernelized space, effectively bridging the gap between theoretical models and practical quantum engineering.
The IEEE qCCL brings together leading experts, researchers and practitioners at the intersection of quantum technologies, control theory and machine learning. Li delivered this year’s keynote speech, “Quantum Ensemble Control: Foundations, Evolution, and Future Challenges.”
Li’s research spans systems, computational, learning and data sciences, with particular expertise at their intersections. He is particularly interested in complex, large-scale systems arising from emerging applications in quantum physics, biology, neuroscience, medicine, public health and complex networks, as well as learning and analytics for the big data generated by these high-dimensional systems. His research program is transdisciplinary, emphasizing the fundamentals of systems science and applied mathematics while offering research opportunities both within the field and in interdisciplinary applications.
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