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

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 fourth-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.

Beryl Jiang

PhD Student

Beryl is a third-year Ph.D. student in Computer Sciences at the UW–Madison under the supervision of Prof. Swamit Tannu. Her research focuses on compilation techniques for efficient magic state management in fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Research Interests: Quantum compilation, quantum architecture, quantum resource management

Eugene (Yu-Chun) Lin

PhD Student

Eugene is a Ph.D. student in Computer Sciences, working with Dr. Swamit Tannu. His recent research focuses on hardware-aware quantum error correction schemes and decoder design.

Research Interests: Quantum error correction, decoders, and fault-tolerant quantum computer architectures

Max Phillips

PhD Student

Max is a CS Ph.D. student at UW–Madison, advised by Dr. Swamit Tannu. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from Ohio Northern University. His research interests broadly include quantum computer architecture and hardware acceleration, with a particular focus on optimizing quantum-classical interfaces to enable scalable, fault-tolerant quantum systems.

Research Interests: Quantum computer architecture, hardware accelerators, scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computers