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Of the 18, 11 were on the student track and 7 on the professional track. The online build weekend ran from 7 PM ET on October 9 to 7 PM ET on October 11. In that time, seven of the 18 teams entered 13 projects.",[16,17],"youtube-video",{"poster":18,"title":19,"yt":20},"\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Freel-poster.webp","NYU Tandon School of Engineering at the Qollab x IonQ Hackathon 2026","EBez0xL3WLY",[12,22,23],{},"The projects range from a virtual choreography and a generator for invented languages to portfolio selection and decrypting captured HTTPS traffic. Every one of them is open source on Qollab.",[25,26,28],"h2",{"id":27},"the-nyu-tandon-school-of-engineering-node","The NYU Tandon School of Engineering node",[12,30,31],{},"NYU Tandon signed on in September. John Di Bartolo, chair of the Department of Applied Physics, led the node with Deshane Lyew, the department's administrator.",[12,33,34,35,40],{},"Di Bartolo developed NYU Tandon's ",[36,37,39],"a",{"href":38},"https:\u002F\u002Fengineering.nyu.edu\u002Facademics\u002Fdepartments\u002Fapplied-physics\u002Fdegrees-and-programs\u002Fminors","Quantum Technology minor"," with NYU colleagues and SandboxAQ's educational outreach program. The minor opened to all NYU undergraduates in fall 2025, and Liam Bergerson of the node's 1st-place team is taking it. NYU Tandon and SandboxAQ hosted the school's first quantum hackathon, the Tandon hAQathon, in September 2023. A year later, NYU Tandon co-hosted NYC HAQ, a multi-university quantum hackathon, with City College of New York and Columbia University.",[12,42,43],{},"The projects were scored on novelty, technical execution, impact and documentation. The node's judging panel was Rupak Chatterjee, Vikram Duvvuri, Ben Nachumi, John Di Bartolo and Deshane Lyew.",[25,45,47],{"id":46},"_1st-place-quantum-beats-studio","1st place: Quantum Beats Studio",[12,49,50],{},"Quantum Beats Studio teaches quantum computing by sound: every Play measures a Qiskit circuit once and plays the result back. Dimitri Mignano, who studies data science and machine learning at Hofstra University, led the project. Liam Bergerson, his best friend since Regis High School in Manhattan, co-developed it and studies math and physics at NYU Tandon. They entered as 4 piece chicken nugget with two friends from Hofstra, computer science seniors Emilia Szynwald and Nickolaos Hatzigeorgiou.",[52,53],"blog-figure",{"alt":54,"caption":55,"src":56},"Dimitri Mignano, Liam Bergerson, Nickolaos Hatzigeorgiou and Emilia Szynwald, with a screenshot of Quantum Beats Studio","Dimitri Mignano, Liam Bergerson, Nickolaos Hatzigeorgiou and Emilia Szynwald","\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fquantum-beats-studio-winner.webp",[12,58,59],{},"The idea came from preparing for the competition. \"We had no idea where to start when it came to learning quantum for this competition.\" Even when something made sense, they could only explain it in the complex language they had just learned.",[12,61,62],{},"Players learn four moves by ear and solve four puzzles with them. Swap, the X gate, switches a car to rain. Shuffle, the H gate, sounds like a coin toss between the two. Sync, the CNOT gate, makes a Bell pair, so rain only ever comes with thunder. A phase gate called Turn, placed between two Shuffles, makes the sound of footsteps disappear completely, which no mix of classical coin flips can do. Then the puzzles come back in qubit notation, with X, H, P(θ) and CNOT, while the sound names fade out.",[12,64,65],{},"The most intense moment came in the 20 minutes before Sunday's deadline, when Dimitri and Liam had three tries to record their 3-minute demo video.",[12,67,68],{},"Duolingo inspired the project, and the team admires how it uses data to teach better. Next, they want to use data the same way with people learning quantum, to find what makes people quit and what keeps them going.",[70,71,74],"pull-quote",{"avatar":72,"name":55,"role":73},"\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fquantum-beats-studio-avatar.webp","Quantum Beats Studio",[12,75,76],{},"Before the hackathon, we really weren’t sure whether or not we wanted to pursue quantum technology. Post, we've found a problem we’re intrigued by and want to continue building on it. We’re excited to continue learning, and understanding how to break down barriers in quantum and make a real impact.",[78,79],"project-card",{"builder":80,"description":81,"owner":82,"thumb":83,"title":73,"to":84},"Dimitri Mignano, Liam Bergerson, Nickolaos Hatzigeorgiou, Emilia Szynwald","A music studio that turns quantum circuit runs into beats.","dimimimi98","\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fquantum-beats-studio.webp","\u002Fu\u002Fdimimimi98\u002Fquantum-beats-studio",[25,86,88],{"id":87},"_2nd-place-dqi-clearer-hops","2nd place: DQI: Clearer Hops",[12,90,91],{},"DQI: Clearer Hops uses Decoded Quantum Interferometry to pick frequency-hopping schedules for an industrial sensor fleet that sends telemetry through crowded radio spectrum. Ethan Feldman, a senior in applied physics at NYU, built it on his own under the team name Ducks are surprisingly cool.",[12,93,94],{},"Each transmitter picks a six-hop frequency schedule, and every clear hop is a chance to send data. Ethan took the query-access idea from a paper on DQI. He asked whether it could choose good schedules when only a few fresh checks of channel availability are possible.",[52,96],{"alt":97,"caption":98,"src":99},"Ethan Feldman, with a screenshot of DQI: Clearer Hops","Ethan Feldman","\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fdqi-clearer-hops-winner.webp",[12,101,102],{},"A 24-qubit Qiskit circuit samples the six-hop schedules. On an ideal simulator, the DQI schedules had a mean clear-hop rate of 78.9%. In this synthetic test, any classical strategy limited to the same six queries reaches at most 75.8%. Making that comparison fair was the hardest part. He gave the classical side unlimited computation and relaxed its hopping constraints. As a control, an exact planner reads the full channel data, which shows that the quantum comparison holds only while queries are limited.",[12,104,105],{},"For now the channel data is synthetic. Next, Ethan wants to swap in real, time-stamped radio traces and compare runs on quantum hardware against exact classical planning.",[70,107,110],{"avatar":108,"name":98,"role":109},"\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fdqi-clearer-hops-avatar.webp","DQI: Clearer Hops",[12,111,112],{},"Before this weekend, I thought of quantum computing mainly through its algorithms and hardware. Now I pay more attention to the information-access model and the full cost of putting an algorithm into a real workflow.",[78,114],{"builder":98,"description":115,"owner":116,"thumb":117,"title":109,"to":118},"A quantum algorithm for clearer radio hops, measured against a six-query classical bound.","xyz","\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fdqi-clearer-hops.webp","\u002Fu\u002Fxyz\u002Fdqi-clearer-hops",[25,120,122],{"id":121},"_3rd-place-one-black-hole","3rd place: One Black Hole",[12,124,125],{},"In One Black Hole, you catch, release and regroup simulated black-hole radiation to help a character called Bo recover a qubit that fell in. Ethan entered it solo and placed a second time.",[52,127],{"alt":128,"caption":98,"src":129},"Ethan Feldman, with a screenshot of One Black Hole","\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fone-black-hole-4-winner.webp",[12,131,132],{},"The story starts from the black-hole information puzzle. Quantum physics says information should not disappear, but information that falls into a black hole seems to be lost. Ethan wanted people to investigate the puzzle by handling radiation in small quantum-circuit models.",[12,134,135],{},"Ethan's advice for quantum newcomers is to run the recovery with two pieces of radiation in Bo's tray, then compare one and three.",[12,137,138],{},"Next, Ethan wants to test the story with students who are new to quantum physics. He also entered a third project, Quantum Catdraw.",[70,140,143],{"avatar":141,"name":98,"role":142},"\u002F_content\u002Fimages\u002Fhackathon-2026\u002Fnyu-tandon\u002Fone-black-hole-4-avatar.webp","One Black Hole",[12,144,145],{},"The hardest part was connecting the decoder, evaporation curve, radiation scanner, and outside environment into one story without implying they simulate a real black hole. 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