2nd Annual Mechanick Quantum Biosensing Workshop
Opportunities in Quantum Biosensing: Bridging the Gap from Innovation to Impact
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Kim Engineering Building, Kay Boardrooms, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
Agenda
8:30 am Breakfast and on-site late registration open (if space remains available)
9:00 am Welcome and Opening Remarks - John Sawyer, UMD and Steve Rolston, Physics
Session I: Innovations in Quantum Sensing
9:15 am Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines Stable-Isotope-Based Quantum Effects in Biological and Health Processes
9:45 am Saikat Guha, University of Maryland
10:15 am Peng Zheng, JHU Harnessing Vibro-Polaritons for Developing Quantum-Enabled Vibrational Spectroscopy
10:30 am Avik Dutt, University of Maryland Scalable multimode quantum-enhanced absorption spectroscopy using nanophotonic squeezed frequency combs
10:45 am Coffee break
Session II: Advances in Quantum Biosensing
11:00 am Phillip Reineck, RMIT Australia Visible to near-infrared II nanoscale emitters for quantum sensing
11:30 am John Blanchard, University of Maryland
12:00 pm Surbhi Singla, GMU Driven Abrikosov Vortex Resonances for Narrowband Bioelectromagnetic Sensing
12:15 pm Rosalin Mohanty, UMD A New Window into Brain Health: Optical Biosensing with Monolayer Semiconductors
12:30 pm Lunch (provided to registered participants) - poster setup in Leidos Lab
Session III: Translating Quantum-Bio Innovation to impact
1:30 pm Introduction (NIH and AFOSR representatives, if available)
1:40 pm Rong Chen, Univ. of Maryland School of Medicine, Machine learning for neural decoding
1:50 pm Jack Diab, Narang Group, UCLA Quantum-enhanced bioaerosol detection
2:10 pm Yun Chen, Johns Hopkins University, Engineered Magnetosensitive Proteins to Initiate or Modulate Chemical Reactions
2:30 pm Alexey Gorshkov, UMD, entanglement enhanced sensing
2:50 pm Miko Wieczorek, Mayo Clinic, Quantum Sensing in Healthcare
3:10 pm Tim Zhang, UMD AFOSR Quantum biosensing testbed
3:20 pm Concluding remarks
3:30 pm Refreshments
3:30 pm Poster Session (in Leidos lab, Clark Hall next door)