I-9-11 · UCLA × Quantum × Medicine

The Program

01 Overview

A field study at the edge of medicine and the quantum.

Nine delegates from Taiwan spend sixty days at UCLA, from July 6 to September 3, 2026, reading the working edge where biomedical engineering meets quantum science.

The program is part of Taiwan's Youth Overseas Dream Fund (青年百億海外圓夢基金計畫), run by the Ministry of Education's Youth Development Administration. It is organized by Asia University with partner TAITA SoCal, hosted academically by the UCLA Center for Quantum Science & Engineering (CQSE), and co-organized with UCLA Samueli Engineering, the David Geffen School of Medicine, and the UCLA Joe C. Wen School of Nursing.

It is led by Professor Kang L. Wang, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and a director of CQSE. The delegation is small by design, nine students of mixed age and discipline, so every person presents, questions, and builds rather than spectates.

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  • Taiwan MOE · Youth Development Administration
  • Asia University · organizer
  • TAITA SoCal · partner
  • UCLA CQSE · academic partner
An MRI scanner in a medical imaging suite.
AI × brain disease · biomedical imaging
02 Four Signals

Four fields, read honestly.

Each theme maps to a waveform. Two are medicine, two are the quantum.

AI and neuroscience

Field A · Medicine

AI × Brain & Neuroscience

The most clinically mature thread. Deep learning reads MRI and PET, and in 2025 the first Alzheimer's blood test was cleared. AI stays decision-support, not autonomous diagnosis.

EEG sleep-spindle

Drug discovery and TCM

Field B · Medicine

AI × Drug Discovery & TCM

AI is accelerating pre-clinical work and reaching into Traditional Chinese Medicine. As of 2025, no AI-discovered drug has reached market.

mass-spectrum peaks

Quantum computing

Field C · Quantum

Quantum Computing × Molecular Prediction

The least mature, the most discussed. Today's noisy devices cannot yet model real drug molecules, and serious value sits in the 2030s.

diffraction comb

Biomedical-quantum convergence

Field D · Quantum

Biomedical Engineering × Quantum Convergence

The convergence is taking shape at top universities: quantum sensing, biomagnetic imaging, instrumentation, materials. Early, and this delegation's frontier.

coherence

03 One Day

How a single day is built.

Morning is input; afternoon is output. That is the program's rhythm.

  1. AM

    Morning: input

    A faculty or speaker lecture, a lab visit, or a topic introduction. Take notes, record questions, prepare for the afternoon.

  2. PM

    Afternoon: output

    A daily teach-back: three groups present for eight to ten minutes each, then Q&A, explaining the day in their own words. Then project studio.

  3. Close

    Daily closing

    A traceable learning log for each delegate: three takeaways, one still-confusing question, one next step.

  4. Weekend

    Weekends

    Self-guided city and innovation exploration, rest, and reflection. No formal output.

See the 9 weeks