Rylan Malarchick

Quantum systems & compilers

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

My code lives at code.rylanmalarchick.com, self-hosted. GitHub is kept only for forks and pull requests to other projects.

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

Upstream Contributions

PennyLane Catalyst #2965 · MLIR canonicalization pattern for the quantum dialect (merged, Jul 2026)
Qiskit-Braket provider #342 · Abelian grouping of commuting observables in BraketEstimator (merged, Jun 2026)
Mojo standard library #6753 · IntLiteral/FloatLiteral arithmetic (open)