Rylan Malarchick

Quantum systems & compilers

Quantum compilers, pulse-level control, and deterministic control layers.

My code lives at code.rylanmalarchick.com, self-hosted. GitHub is kept only for forks and pull requests to other projects.

Experience

Quantum Computing Summer School

Los Alamos National Laboratory · Jun 2026 – Present
  • Robust optimization for quantum circuit compilation

AIRHOUND, Autonomous UAV Perception System (PI and Perception Lead)

Engineering Physics Propulsion Laboratory · Sep 2024 – Apr 2026
  • Autonomous UAV perception platform for target detection and pursuit
  • Published in SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2026 Proceedings, paper 14030-26

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Intern (OSTEM)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · May 2025 – Aug 2025
  • ML framework for cloud base height retrieval

Education

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Daytona Beach, FL
  • B.S. Engineering Physics · May 2027
    Track: Spacecraft Instrumentation
    Minor: Computational Mathematics
  • M.S. Engineering Physics · May 2028
    Track: Thesis
  • NCAA Division II Cross Country & Track

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