About

Hello, I’m Ashish Kakkar and this is my personal webpage. I am a physicist working in quantum computing. These pages host notes on topics I find useful and links to recent work, with a current focus on superconducting qubits, quantum compilers, and quantum error correction.

Software

• Software Research software and related documentation, including systolicLDPC.

A brief history

As a senior scientist at Q-CTRL Inc. I have worked on model building and compilation for superconducting qubit hardware. Before that, I completed my PhD (2022) in quantum field theory at the University of Kentucky, advised by Anatoly Dymarsky. That work led me toward the interface of conformal field theory and quantum error correction. During that time, I also worked at Argonne National Laboratory through a summer fellowship and spent a short period at IonQ Inc. Earlier, I completed my BS-MS (2016) at IISER Pune, where I worked with Arjun Bagchi on Galilean limits of field theories.