Pratyush Anand

Ph.D. Researcher, MIT EECS · Quantum Photonics Group

Quantum computing, AI–hardware co-design, and experimental photonics.

About

“I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

I am a PhD researcher in the Quantum Photonics group of Prof. Dirk R. Englund at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

My research focuses on quantum control protocols for efficient quantum computation. I also collaborate with Prof. Kaiming He on AI-based co-design of quantum hardware and quantum algorithms.

Explore my publications, projects, and notes to learn more about my work.

Education

2024 – Present Ph.D., EECS — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor: Prof. Dirk R. Englund · Quantum computing & AI co-design
2019 – 2022 M.Sc., Physics — ETH Zürich
Computational & quantum physics
2015 – 2019 B.Tech., Engineering Physics — IIT Madras

Research & Experience

2024 – Present Ph.D. Researcher — MIT Quantum Photonics (Englund Group)
Programmable quantum matter, microwave single-photon detection, RL-based quantum resource scheduling.
2024 AI Co-design Collaboration — MIT with Prof. Kaiming He
Dynamic inhomogeneous quantum resource scheduling (arXiv:2405.16380).
2023 – 2024 Research Assistant — MIT & NVIDIA Omniverse
Physics-based digital twins for quantum labs (GPU-accelerated simulation).
2022 – 2023 Research Assistant — Niels Bohr Institute (Lodahl Group)
Spin–photon interfaces and quantum-dot spin qubit systems.
2021 – 2022 Master's Thesis — Harvard University (Lukin Group)
Design, fabrication, and characterization of superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators.
2020 – 2021 Semester & Research Projects — ETH Zürich (Esslinger & Degen Groups)
FPGA laser stabilization; NV-center diamond distance measurements.
2019 Research Assistant — Harvard DUNE Neutrino Group
2018 CERN Summer Student — ATLAS Tile Calorimeter calibration
2017 Internship — NISER Bhubaneswar (experimental particle physics)

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Recent Publications

Pratyush Anand et al., Programmable Quantum Matter: Heralding Large Cluster States in Driven Inhomogeneous Spin Ensembles — arXiv:2509.02992 (2026, accepted PRX Quantum)
H. Raniwala, Pratyush Anand et al., Spin-optomechanical cavity interfaces by deep subwavelength phonon-photon confinement — npj Quantum Information (2025)
Pratyush Anand et al., Microwave single-photon detection using a hybrid spin-optomechanical quantum interface — npj Quantum Information (2025)
L. Li, Pratyush Anand, K. He, D. Englund, Dynamic inhomogeneous quantum resource scheduling with reinforcement learning — arXiv:2405.16380 (2024)

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Selected Highlights

NVIDIA Academic Grant (2025)
MIT Presidential Fellow (2024)
CERN Summer Student Programme — India (2018)
International Mathematics Olympiad Training Camp (2013)

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Get in Touch

anand43@mit.edu · Contact page · GitHub