Hi, I'm Arjun!

I recently graduated from Georgia Tech with a CS major concentrating in Systems Architecture and Theory. I will be beginning my PhD in EECS @ Berkeley this fall, focusing on quantum compilers and programming systems!

You can contact me @

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• @abhamra on Github
• arjun-bhamra on LinkedIn

Research

My research interests center around compilation, especially as it relates to quantum computing. My prior research has been in enabling this via Qwerty, a domain-specific language for writing quantum programs. More recently, I have been looking to improve hardware-aware quantum compilation, especially as QEC codes get better and can be mapped more naturally to the variety of qubit modalities that exist today.

I worked @ the Center for Novel Computing Heirarchies (CRNCH) in the TINKER Lab with Prof. Tom Conte and Austin Adams on quantum programming languages and compilers, and I will soon be joining Prof. John Kubiatowicz' lab at Berkeley. I also briefly worked with Prof. Aws Albarghouthi and Amanda Xu at UW Madison on parallelizing their synthesis-based peephole quantum circuit optimizer.

Publications

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

Work

I've spent most of my (limited) work life in the space of quantum compilers. This is what I've worked on these past few summers:

• (2023) I worked @ Quantinuum, where I designed a domain specific language for converting Repeat-Until-Success circuits into QIR.
• (2024) I worked @ IBM on rewriting their hardware Quantum Assembly compiler in Rust.
• (2025) I returned to IBM to work on quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems like the Traveling Salesman Problem

I also co-chaired dependently-typed, the compilers and programming languages club @ GT. As a part of the club, I gave talks on MLIR, compiler optimizations for data locality, and program synthesis.

You can find my CV 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 The Finals, Overwatch, and Battlefield 1/5)
• DND (we try not to minmax quite hard, here)
• Creative Writing (work in progress)
• My dotfiles setup

Most importantly, I love learning!

"Experience becoming [...] to make your soul grow" -- Kurt Vonnegut