Samajdar Named 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize Winner

Rhine Samajdar, who earned his PhD in physics from the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Harvard Griffin GSAS) in 2022, has been named one of twelve recipients of the 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize. 

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Rhine Samajdar

The Boeing Quantum Creators Prize was established in 2021 and expanded in 2023 with support from Boeing. The award recognizes early-career researchers whose work contributes new ideas to the fast-growing field of quantum information science and engineering, an area with the potential to transform technology and society. Prize recipients receive a trophy, a $3,500 monetary award (where legally permissible), and the opportunity to present their research at the Chicago Quantum Summit on November 3 and 4. 

Samajdar, now a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, conducts research at the interface of quantum information science and condensed matter physics. His work builds on his doctoral studies at Harvard, where he investigated quantum simulation with neutral atom arrays. By exploring the potential of programmable quantum systems to model complex physical phenomena, Samajdar contributes to the advancement of next-generation quantum technologies. 

With this recognition, Samajdar joins a distinguished group of early-career researchers who have been honored with the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize since its inception. Past recipients have gone on to prestigious fellowships, research positions at leading companies such as IBM and Google Quantum AI, and faculty appointments at institutions including the University of California, Berkeley; Yale University; Stanford University; and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. 

The 2025 Boeing Quantum Creators Prize highlights the innovative work of young scholars like Samajdar, whose research continues to shape the future of quantum information science. 

This announcement was engineered by Paul Massari using GPT 5.0 and information drawn from a press release from the Chicago Quantum Exchange.