Dhanvi Bharadwaj

PhD student working on Quantum Computing Architecture

Apr 13, 2026 04/13/26	Awarded “Exceptional Preliminary Exam”. Officially a PhD candidate!
Mar 20, 2026 03/20/26	Recieved the HAIQ Travel Grant to present a poster on SPIQ @ ASPLOS '26. See you in Pittsburgh!
Aug 26, 2024 08/26/24	Started my PhD in CSE at University of Michigan!
May 20, 2024 05/20/24	Started my summer internship at NVIDIA in the beautiful San Francisco bay area!
May 12, 2024 05/12/24	Graduated with my undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison!

Selected Publications

arXiv '26

SPIQ: Scalable Clifford-Based Classical Initialization for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Dhanvi Bharadwaj, Yuewen Hou, Guang-Yi Li, and 1 more author

2026

Bib Pdf Poster

:::bibtex
@misc{bharadwaj2026scalablecliffordbasedclassicalinitialization,
    author = "Bharadwaj, Dhanvi and Hou, Yuewen and Li, Guang-Yi and Subramanian Ravi, Gokul",
    title = "SPIQ: Scalable Clifford-Based Classical Initialization for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm",
    year = "2026",
    eprint = "2602.14327",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "quant-ph",
    url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14327"
}

ASPLOS '26

TreeVQA: A Tree-Structured Execution Framework for Shot Reduction in Variational Quantum Algorithms

Yuewen Hou, Dhanvi Bharadwaj, Gokul Subramanian Ravi

ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, March 2026

Bib Pdf

:::bibtex
@inproceedings{tree_vqa,
    author = "Hou, Yuewen and Bharadwaj, Dhanvi and Subramanian Ravi, Gokul",
    title = "TreeVQA: A Tree-Structured Execution Framework for Shot Reduction in Variational Quantum Algorithms",
    booktitle = "ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems",
    year = "2026",
    month = "March",
    url = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12068"
}

QCE '23

Characterizing Quantum Classifier Utility in Natural Language Processing Workflows

Kathleen Hamilton, John Gounley, Dhanvi Bharadwaj, and 5 more authors

IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, Sept. 2023

Bib Poster

:::bibtex
@inproceedings{osti_2397467,
    author = "Hamilton, Kathleen and Gounley, John and Bharadwaj, Dhanvi and Chandra Shekar, Mayanka and Date, Prasanna and Coello Perez, Antonio and Suh, In-Saeng and Tourassi, Georgia",
    title = "Characterizing Quantum Classifier Utility in Natural Language Processing Workflows",
    booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering",
    doi = "10.1109/QCE57702.2023.10286",
    url = "https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2397467",
    place = "United States",
    organization = "Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)",
    year = "2023",
    month = "Sept."
}

Talks

Aug 10, 2025

IEEE MWSCAS Quantum Architectures Workshop @ Lansing

SPIQ - Scalable Parameter Initialization for QAOA on NISQ and Fault-Tolerant devices

Mar 21, 2025

Building Bridges @ Indiana University Indianapolis

Designing Hybrid Systems to Achieve Quantum Advantage

Dec 13, 2024

Quantum Student Lunch Seminar @ University of Michigan

Overview of Clifford Simulation and Stabilizer Formalism for Quantum Circuits

Hobbies & Interests

Photography & Cinematography (Lightroom is my all-time favorite piece of software)

Sand Volleyball (My postgrad hobby pick)

I’m all about exploring music and catching live shows (My spotify)

Traveling (I've explored 18 countries and counting)

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