Rylan Malarchick

Quantum systems & compilers

Quantum compilers, pulse-level control, and deterministic control layers. Planning a PhD in quantum systems.

My code lives on Codeberg. GitHub is kept only for forks and pull requests to other projects.

Featured

control-plane-openness

Measuring Control-Plane Openness in Near-Term Quantum Computing: A Rubric, Its Validation, and an Application to Thirteen Vendor Stacks

arXiv:2605.15233
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lindblad-bench

Cache Hierarchy and Vectorization Analysis of Lindblad Master Equation Simulation for Near-Term Quantum Control

arXiv:2603.18052
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Experience

Quantum Computing Summer School

Los Alamos National Laboratory · Jun 2026 – Present
  • Mentors: Harsha Nagarajan, Abhijith Jayakumar
  • Robust optimization and quantum circuit design

AIRHOUND, Autonomous UAV Perception System (PI and Perception Lead)

Engineering Physics Propulsion Laboratory · Sep 2024 – Apr 2026
  • Autonomous UAV perception for target detection and pursuit
  • Presented at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2026 (paper 14030-26)
  • Methods paper published in ERAU Beyond: Undergraduate Research Journal

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Intern (OSTEM)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · May 2025 – Aug 2025
  • ML framework for cloud base height retrieval, under Dr. Dong Wu
  • Two papers (CBH retrieval; domain shift) pending NTRS release

Education

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Daytona Beach, FL
  • B.S. Engineering Physics · May 2027
    Track: Spacecraft Instrumentation
    Minor: Computational Mathematics
  • M.S. Engineering Physics · May 2028
    Track: Thesis
  • NCAA Division II Cross Country & Track