St Xavier’s College of Management and Techno-logy in Patna October 6 conferred the Xavier Pride of Bihar Award 2020 on Saikat Guha, the new director of Centre for Quantum Networks under the University of Arizona in the United States.
The award was presented during an online interactive session the Patna-born scientist had with the students of the Jesuit college. Guha was appointed the director of CQN in August this year. His team has been given the task of developing the internet of the future, ruled by quantum mechanical pro-perties.

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