I am a second-year computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago studying quantum computer systems with Fred Chong. Previously, I graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in physics and a minor in computer science.
Hardware-software co-design is essential in quantum computing, both to get the best performance out of a given quantum device and to effectively guide the next generation of hardware. My research currently focuses on methods to improve the performance of quantum error correction on real quantum devices. I have most recently been working on software mitigation of time-varying noise (such as cosmic ray impacts and shifting two-level system defects) in the surface code. Previously, I have also published work in quantum control pulse optimization and a pair of papers on compiling with ququarts. My work so far has mostly had superconducting hardware in mind, but I have also worked with trapped ion and neutral atom architectures. I am currently working on moving more into the quantum error correction space, focusing on topics such as biased-noise QEC and decoding.