Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, part of the Programming Languages Research Group and the Chicago Quantum Exchange.
My main interest is in applying techniques from programming languages and formal verification to the domain of quantum computation. Two of my main projects are the QWIRE quantum circuit language (with Jennifer Paykin) and the VOQC verified optimizing compiler (with Kesha Hietala). I’m currently interested in verified optimization, error-correction, type systems and programming abstractions for quantum computing.
I’m working on a book on verified quantum programming! Email me if you’d like to use the book for your own course.
If you’re interested in doing research with me: Please reach out!
Recent News
August 2025 Compositional Quantum Control Flow with Efficient Compilation in Qunity with Mikahil Mints, Finn Voichick and Leonidas Lampropoulos was accepted to OOPSLA 2025! This is the first implementation of the Qunity quantum programming language, now with generalized pattern matching!
August 2025 A Language for Quantifying Quantum Network Behavior with Anita Buckley and the team at USI Lugano was accepted to OOPSLA 2025! This builds upon our prior work on BellKAT, adding support for probabilistic reasoning.
January 2025 Our project proposal, Verifying Error-Correcting Codes for Broad Deployment, was selected for funding by IBM!
Courses
- Programming Languages, University of Chicago, Spring 2023
- Picturing Quantum Process, University of Chicago, Fall 2022
- Advanced Proof Automation, University of Chicago, Spring 2022
- Quantum Programming and Verification, University of Chicago, Spring 2021
- Programming Proofs, University of Chicago, Winter 2021, 2022.
- Discrete Mathematics, University of Chicago, Fall 2020, 2021, Winter 2023
- Program Analysis and Understanding, University of Maryland, Spring 2019
- Python Programming, University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2015 and Spring 2016