The BQSKit Team

Costin Iancu
Senior Staff Scientist
Costin is the PI on the BQSKit project and a senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.

Ed Younis
Computer Systems Engineer
Ed is the lead software engineer on the BQSKit project and the developer of the QFAST and QFactor tools. He graduated from UC Berkeley where he studied quantum computing, and now he works as a computer systems engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab where he designs and builds quantum compiler tools.

Wim Lavrijsen
Computer Systems Engineer
Wim is a software engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working on the AIDE-QC project and the Advanced Quantum Testbed. His work involves the AQT control software stack on Zurich Instruments hardware, classical optimizers for hybrid algorithms, quantum algorithm design, and circuit synthesis.

Marc Davis
Graduate Student
Marc is a Computer Science Ph.D. Student at MIT. He is the developer of the QSearch tool, and his primary research interest is software and algorithms for quantum computing.

Mathias Weiden
Graduate Student
Mathias is a graduate student at UC Berkeley interested in the intersection of computer architecture and quantum computing. He is currently experimenting with topology-aware circuit partitioning methods.

Lindsay Bassman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lindsay is a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab interested in advancing materials simulations on quantum computers. She takes a multi-faceted approach involving the development of new algorithms, high-level programming libraries, and methods of quantum circuit compilation for dynamic simulations of materials.

Roel Van Beeumen
Research Scientist
Roel is a computational research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His main research fields are Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing. His research interests range from numerical linear algebra and numerical software to quantum algorithms and quantum circuit synthesis.

Alon Kukliansky
Graduate Student
Alon is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School. Alon has vast experience in developing, deploying, and utilizing mission-critical HPC systems. His current research areas are quantum computer architectures and quantum computation.

Ji Liu
Postdoctoral Appointee
Ji Liu is a postdoctoral appointee at Argonne National Laboratory interested in improving quantum computer programmability, debuggability, and reliability. He currently works on quantum compiler optimization and noise mitigation for NISQ computers.

Justin Kalloor
Graduate Student
Justin is a graduate student at UC Berkeley currently researching quantum computing systems. His primary interests include quantum circuit compilation techniques and large-scale system design.
Past Members:
- Xin-Chuan Ryan Wu, Graduate Student, University of Chicago (Now at Intel)
- Ethan Smith, Undergraduate Student UC Berkeley
- Tirthak Patel, Graduate Student, Northeastern University (Now Assistant Professor at Rice)