Prateek P. Kulkarni

I am a Walmart Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Automation at the Indian Institute of Science, advised by Sumit K. Mandal. I work on quantum computer systems, especially where compiler, runtime, and architectural choices interact.

My research asks what information about a fault-tolerant computation should remain visible to the software stack. Rather than treating error correction, logical operations, scheduling, and hardware constraints as independent layers, I study how exposing their structure can guide compiler and runtime decisions. I am particularly interested in fault-tolerant compilation, QEC-aware mapping and scheduling, resource-aware runtimes, and compiler–architecture co-design.

I am currently working with Prakash Murali at the University of Cambridge on hardware-efficient realizations of Bivariate Bicycle and Gross-family qLDPC codes. I also spent Summer 2026 at Fujitsu Research India, hosted by Aritra Sarkar, working on quantum compilation and resource estimation.