Group Members

Prof. Swamit Tannu

Assistant Professor CS, UW-Madison

Swamit Tannu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an affiliate faculty member of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. His research interests include quantum computing, computer architecture, and hardware security. Tannu received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Tech in 2020. He worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research (2015-2018), where he focused on quantum control architecture and superconducting logic. Tannu received the 2019 Best Paper Award at ACM Computing Frontiers. He is a member of MICRO Hall-of-Fame.

Research Interests: Quantum Computing, Computer Architecture, Sustainable, and Secure System Design

Graduate Students

Satvik Maurya

PhD Student

Satvik is a third year PhD student and his work focuses on control hardware architectures for near-term and fault-tolerant quantum computers.

Research Interests: Quantum Control Hardware, FPGA accelerators, High Performance Computing

Tianyi Hao

PhD Student

Tianyi Hao is a CS Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Prof. Swamit Tannu’s group. Prior to joining UW-Madison, he received his Bachelor’s degrees in CS and Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Master’s degree in CS at Stanford. His research interests include quantum algorithms, quantum optimization, and quantum circuit simulation.

Research Interests: quantum algorithms, quantum optimization, quantum circuit simulation

Chaithanya Naik Mude

PhD Student

Chaithanya is a second-year CS Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Swamit Tannu. His research focuses on designing robust and scalable quantum systems by leveraging the advancements in machine learning.

Research Interests: Quantum Computing, Reinforcement learning, Scalable Systems, Synthesis

Ayushi Dubal

PhD student

I’m a CS PhD student at UW-Madison, advised by Dr Swamit Tannu. I’m from Bangalore, India, am a Qiskit advocate, and have worked in multiple subdomains of quantum computing.

Research Interests: Improving the efficiency of near-term quantum algorithms, and exploring fault-tolerant quantum architectures.

Lakshika Rathi

MS student

I am a first-year graduate student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. My research extend across various facets of quantum technology, including machine learning, computer vision, information theory, networking, and more.

Research Interests: Quantum Computing, Machine Learning