## Pratyush Anand
Ph.D. Researcher, MIT EECS
Email: [anand43@mit.edu](mailto:anand43@mit.edu)
[GitHub](https://github.com/panand2257/) | [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pratyush-Anand)
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## Research Summary
Ph.D. researcher in quantum information systems with work spanning quantum control, spin-photon and spin-optomechanical interfaces, and machine learning for quantum hardware-algorithm co-design. Contributions include high-efficiency microwave single-photon detection schemes, scalable entanglement-generation protocols, and reinforcement-learning approaches for quantum resource scheduling.
## Selected Contributions
- **Programmable quantum matter and scalable entanglement:** Developed control and compilation methods for large cluster-state generation in driven inhomogeneous spin ensembles; work accepted in *PRX Quantum*.
- **Quantum transduction and detection interfaces:** Co-developed hybrid spin-optomechanical approaches for microwave single-photon detection and cavity interfaces, resulting in peer-reviewed publications in *npj Quantum Information*.
- **AI for quantum systems:** Built a reinforcement-learning framework for dynamic inhomogeneous quantum resource scheduling, demonstrating substantial gains over rule-based baselines.
## Education
- **Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science**, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-Present
Advisor: Prof. Dirk R. Englund
- **M.Sc., Physics**, ETH Zurich, 2022
- **B.Tech., Engineering Physics**, IIT Madras, 2019
## Research Experience
- **Ph.D. Researcher**, MIT Quantum Photonics Group, 2024-Present
Quantum control, programmable quantum matter, spin-optomechanical interfaces, and AI-assisted quantum system design.
- **Research Collaboration**, MIT (with Prof. Kaiming He), 2024-Present
Machine-learning methods for robust quantum resource scheduling and hardware-algorithm co-design.
- **Research Assistant**, MIT and NVIDIA Omniverse collaboration, 2023-2024
Physics-based digital twins and simulation workflows for quantum laboratory systems.
- **Research Assistant**, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2022-2023
Spin-photon interfaces and quantum-dot spin-qubit platform development.
- **Master's Thesis Researcher**, Harvard University (Lukin Group), 2021-2022
Design, fabrication, and cryogenic characterization of superconducting resonator devices.
## Technical Skills
- **Programming:** Python, C/C++, MATLAB, JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, QuTiP
- **Hardware and Embedded:** Verilog, FPGA workflows, embedded C, real-time control
- **Modeling and Simulation:** COMSOL, Sonnet, Omniverse, Isaac Sim
## Selected Publications
1. **Pratyush Anand**, Louis Follet, Odiel Hooybergs, Dirk R. Englund, *Programmable Quantum Matter: Heralding Large Cluster States in Driven Inhomogeneous Spin Ensembles*, arXiv:2509.02992, 2026. (Accepted in *PRX Quantum*)
2. Hamza Raniwala, **Pratyush Anand**, Stefan Krastanov, Matthew Eichenfield, Matthew Trusheim, Dirk R. Englund, *Spin-optomechanical cavity interfaces by deep subwavelength phonon-photon confinement*, *npj Quantum Information* 11(1):120, 2025.
3. **Pratyush Anand**, Ethan G. Arnault, Matthew E. Trusheim, K. Jacobs, Dirk R. Englund, *Microwave single-photon detection using a hybrid spin-optomechanical quantum interface*, *npj Quantum Information* 11(1):164, 2025.
4. Linsen Li, **Pratyush Anand**, Kaiming He, Dirk R. Englund, *Dynamic inhomogeneous quantum resource scheduling with reinforcement learning*, arXiv:2405.16380, 2024.
## Honors and Recognition
- NVIDIA Academic Grant (2025)
- MIT Presidential Fellow (2024)
- CERN Summer Student Programme (2018)
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The PDF version of my CV is available below.