Rylan Malarchick
Quantum Controls & Hardware-Aware Compilation
BS/MS Engineering Physics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I model Hamiltonians and noise on superconducting qubits, optimize control pulses via GRAPE, and build the compiler infrastructure to close the loop between circuits and hardware. Three preprints on arXiv, hardware-validated on IQM Garnet. Former NASA GSFC intern.
Active Research
QubitOS
Open-source quantum control kernel. GRAPE pulse optimizer, Rust HAL server (gRPC), pluggable backends (QuTiP, IQM Garnet). 1,321 tests.
QubitPulseOpt
GRAPE with Lindblad master equation for T₁/T₂ noise on transmon qubits. 99.14% X-gate fidelity in 20ns. Hardware-validated on IQM Garnet. 822 tests.
QCO-Integration
End-to-end fidelity analysis: circuit optimization → pulse simulation → hardware execution. 371 circuits on IQM Garnet. Pulse duration strongest fidelity predictor (r=-0.74).
AIRHOUND
Autonomous UAV pursuit system. RF-DETR + TensorRT on Jetson (3.6ms, 275.7 FPS). PI on team of 7.