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PhD, Computer Science

• Advisor: Dr. Gokul Ravi
• Focus: Quantum Computing Architecture
• MICDE Fellow 2024

Bachelor of Science, Physics

• Cumulative GPA: 3.9/4.0
• Hilldale Research Fellow 2023

Quantum Computing Software Intern

• Implemented the Simple Update algorithm with CuPy and C++ to optimize matrix product states, enhancing the accuracy of tensor network contractions involving 2-qubit gates and MPOs.
• Designed a preprocessing method to introduce gauge structures into user-provided MPS.
• Collaborated with Senior Engineers during team-led CUDA workshops, refining GPU programming techniques and ensuring industry-level coding standards throughout development.

Software Engineer Intern

• Conducted detailed profiling and performance analysis on qBraid Lab with Quantum Volume circuits, identifying and resolving kernel bottlenecks.
• Led comprehensive benchmarking studies on SOTA NVIDIA GPU hardware systems, exploring the effect of depolarizing noise on density matrix-based simulation techniques.

Quantum Machine Learning Intern

• Developed and implemented Quantum Machine Learning models using Pennylane and Qiskit frameworks, focusing on 2-6 qubits to assess predictive capabilities on highly multivariate and non-linear datasets.
• Optimized fidelity and cross-entropy loss methods for our models, to reduce loss function values by an average of 20%.
• Utilized state-of-the-art techniques such as data re-uploading to solve limitations posed by the no-cloning theorem and enhance the performance of our quantum models by 30%.
• Implemented and refined quantum circuit architectures such as SU(4) and IsingZZ coupling for multiclass classification tasks on imbalanced datasets.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Utilized Python to implement computational techniques to correct strain-overshoot in viscoelastic relaxation experiments, to help improve the accuracy of dynamic moduli calculations.
• Collaborated with researchers to execute data analysis using SciPy that identified an opportunity to reduce noise from resonance effect.
• Investigated the viscoelastic properties of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNT) across broad frequency and amplitude ranges using dynamic mechanical analyzer.

Quantum Software Lead

• Led a team of 5 students to organize the inaugural IBM Qiskit Fall Fest at UW-Madison consisting of Workshops, Tutorials, and a Hackathon.
• Developed interactive workshops for 80+ students in Quantum Simulations and Error-Correction.
• Taught introductory topics related to quantum computing and linear algebra.
• Organized career talks for students with leading experts in quantum computing from industry and academia.

qiskit-research

• Expanded pauli twirling functionality in IBM Qiskit's research library by adding gate-set generation support and modularizing code for scalability.
• Implemented comprehensive tests to ensure robustness and validate new two-qubit gate features.

TorchQuantum

• Implemented 15 unsupported quantum gates to expand the functionality of the PyTorch-based framework for fast GPU-supported circuit simulations.
• Integrated various quantum circuits and template layers to improve library's versatility at unitaryHack 2023.

• MICDE Fellowship for research in HPC+X fields

• Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship