QNu Labs, incubated at IIT Madras Research Park and backed by India’s National Quantum Mission (NQM), has trained and certified SRM Institute of Science and Technology’s first cohort of faculty qualified to deliver professional Quantum Communication courses.
The engagement also establishes a dedicated Quantum Communications Lab at SRMIST, equipped with real, industry-grade quantum-safe products – the same technology deployed across India’s defence and banking networks.
According to QNU Labs, students and researchers now have genuine hardware to build on, not simulations, fuelling research, innovation, and industry-ready talent from day one.
Skilling the faculty, not just the students, is “what lets a university scale quantum education from one certified batch to hundreds of quantum professionals entering the workforce over the coming academic year”.
The company said the lab exists because a group of SRM faculty members chose to be students again — showing the curiosity to take on an unfamiliar discipline and the sustained effort to complete rigorous certification, and it is their initiative that will carry quantum education forward at SRM.
“This lab at SRM, built with DST’s support and QNu Labs’ expertise, is a landmark step in that journey, taking quantum research out of isolated centres and into the hands of the students who will define India’s quantum future,” said JBV Reddy, head of Quantum Technology Cell at National Quantum Mission, DST.
C. Muthamizhchelvan, vice chancellor of SRM Institute of Science and Technology, said the partnership gives their students access to sovereign, deployed quantum technology — not just textbooks. It’s how SRM prepares the next generation to lead the field globally, from India with QNu Labs.”
Sunil Gupta, CEO and co-founder of QNu Labs, said that with the laboratory, SRM Institute of Science and Technology and QNu Labs are investing in exactly that future — “one that is secure, sovereign, and powered by Indian innovation”.
