Beyond South Korea, IonQ has also forged partnerships back home with the University of Chicago, the University of Maryland, and the University of Washington. While the partnership with the University of Chicago was to establish the IonQ Center for Engineering and Science, the company allied with the University of Maryland through a dedicated quantum research center.Notably, IonQ has been partnering with KISTI in some form since 2022, when the two began collaborating to provide South Korea's research communi ...