Hi, I’m Arjun!

I’m a 4th year CS major @ Georgia Tech concentrating in Systems Architecture and Theory. I’m currently learning about quantum computing, compilers, and PL theory!

You can contact me @

• arjun [dot] bhamra25 [at] gmail.com
• @abhamra on Github
• arjun-bhamra on LinkedIn

Research

My research interests center around compilation and programming languages, especially as they relate to quantum computing. Broadly, I want to design software that is easy to use and lifts as much weight off the shoulders of developers. My prior research has been in enabling this via Qwerty, a domain-specific language for writing quantum programs. More recently, I have been exploring concepts in program synthesis and search-based compiler techniques for DSLs. Always something new to learn!

I work @ the Center for Novel Computing Heirarchies (CRNCH) in the TINKER Lab with Dr. Tom Conte and PhD student Austin Adams on quantum programming languages and compilers!

Publications

• ASDF: A Compiler for Qwerty, a Basis-Oriented Quantum Programming Language:
  Austin J. Adams, Sharjeel Khan, Arjun S. Bhamra, Ryan R. Abusaada, Anthony M. Cabrera, Cameron C. Hoechst, Travis S. Humble, Jeffrey S. Young, Thomas M. Conte
  2025 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
  
• Qwerty: A Basis-Oriented Quantum Programming Language:
  Austin J. Adams, Sharjeel Khan, Arjun S. Bhamra, Ryan R. Abusaada, Travis S. Humble, Jeffrey S. Young and Thomas M. Conte
  2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)

Work

I’ve spent most of my (limited) work life in the space of quantum compilers; in the summer of 2023, I worked @ Quantinuum, where I designed a domain specific language for Repeat-Until-Success circuits. The following summer, I worked @ IBM on rewriting their hardware Quantum Assembly compiler in Rust. This past summer (2025), I returned to IBM to work on quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems.

I also co-chair dependently-typed, the compilers and programming languages club @ GT.

A more complete resume can be found here.

What do I do?

I read somewhere recently that when asked about what someone does, the first answer is some sort of work related answer, and any hobby or passion is designated second-place. Perhaps that’s because of how the question was phrased, but it’s an interesting thought. Anywho, here are some things I find curious, interesting, fun, and the like :]

• Drumming
• Music, particularly Jazz and Funk, although I’ll listen to basically anything that isn’t country
  • A favorite playlist
• Anime and animated shows (FMAB, TLOVM, A:TLA, Arcane, and Blue Eye Samurai are some standouts!)
• FPS Games (currently playing Marvel Rivals and Battlefield 1/5)
• DND (we try not to minmax quite hard, here)
• Creative Writing (work in progress)
• My dotfiles setup

And now, a nice quote

“Experience becoming […] to make your soul grow”

• Kurt Vonnegut