News

Sept 2026: Giving a talk based on our ISLPED'26 work at the QuCS Lecture Series!

Aug 2026: Presented our work on resource estimation and allocation in quantum computers at ISLPED'26 in Evanston, IL, Chicago!

July 2026: Graduated from PESU and joined IISc as a Predoctoral Fellow!

June 2026: Spent the summer at Fujitsu Research India working on quantum compilation and resource optimization (AutoQuREO)!

About me

I am a Walmart Predoctoral Fellow in CSA at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), where I am advised by Prof. Sumit K. Mandal. I am also affiliated with the Walmart Center for Tech Excellence at IISc.

I work on quantum computer systems, particularly compilers, runtimes, resource management, and hardware-software co-design for scalable and fault-tolerant quantum computing.

I will be a visiting researcher at the Fields Institute in Fall 2026, for the thematic program on quantum algorithms for differentiable equations.

Research

I am broadly interested in computer systems and architectures for quantum computing. My current research focuses on:

Quantum compiler and runtime systems
Fault-tolerant quantum computing
Quantum error-correction-aware compilation and mapping
Resource management and scheduling
Architecture–compiler co-design

Selected Publications

How Many Shots Does It Take? A Noise-Aware Quantum Resource Allocation Framework

Prateek P. Kulkarni, Sumit K. Mandal

ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2026
Extended version invited to IEEE TVLSI

[paper] [arXiv]

AutoQuREO: An Automated Framework for Quantum Resource Estimation and Optimization

Harshkumar Oza, Aritra Sarkar, Syed Naqi Abbas, Rahul Bhowmick, Aryan Prakash, Prateek P. Kulkarni, Krishna Kumar Sabapathy

Preprint, 2026

[arXiv]

Experience

Indian Institute of Science

Walmart Predoctoral Fellow
with Prof. Sumit K. Mandal

Jul. 2026 – Present

University of Cambridge

Research Assistant
with Prof. Prakash Murali

Apr. 2026 – Present

Fujitsu Research India

Research Intern
with Dr. Aritra Sarkar and Harshkumar Oza

Summer 2026

Education

PES University, Bengaluru, India (July 2022 - June 2026)
B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Specialization in Quantum Technology
Senior Project: Quantum Machine Learning on Photonic Processors

Selected Awards

3rd Prize, ACM Student Research Competition, MICRO 2025
SPARKS Predoctoral Research Fellowship, Indian Institute of Science, 2025
INAE Mentee, Indian National Academy of Engineering, 2026