Submitted
Malarchick, R. (2026). "End-to-End Fidelity Analysis of Quantum Circuit Optimization: From Gate-Level Transformations to Pulse-Level Control." Submitted to ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. arXiv:2601.20871.
- 371 circuits analyzed end-to-end; hardware-validated on IQM Garnet 20-qubit processor
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- GitHub Repository
Malarchick, R. (2025). "When Does Numerical Pulse Optimization Actually Help? Error Budgets, Robustness Tradeoffs, and Calibration Guidance for Transmon Single-Qubit Gates." Submitted to Quantum. arXiv:2511.12799.
Preprints
Malarchick, R., Steed, A. (2026). "Parallelizing the Variational Quantum Eigensolver: From JIT Compilation to Multi-GPU Scaling." arXiv:2601.09951.
- 117× speedup on 4× H100 GPUs
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- GitHub Repository
Pending Publications (Awaiting NASA Approval)
Malarchick, R. (2026). "Deep Learning for Cloud Base Height Retrieval from Thermal Infrared Imagery: A NASA ER-2 Case Study." Pending journal submission.
Malarchick, R. (2026). "Physics-Informed Feature Engineering and Domain Shift Challenges for Atmospheric Machine Learning: Lessons from Cloud Base Height Retrieval." Pending NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS).
Affiliation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (OSTEM Internship, Summer 2025)
Conference Presentations
Malarchick, R. et al. (2026). "Predictive Target Pursuit for Autonomous UAVs using RF-DETR with Depth-Aware State Estimation and Physics-Informed Trajectory Prediction." SPIE Defense + Security 2026 (Poster, April 28, 2026).
- Manuscript due April 8, 2026