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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <title>QUEST - Home</title> <meta name="description" content="QUEST - UW Madison"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="/"> <link rel="shortcut icon" type ="image/x-icon" href="images/favicon.ico"> <script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-82472331-1', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> </head> <body> <div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation"> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="navbar-header"> <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbar-collapse-1" aria-expanded="false"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <a class="navbar-brand" href="/">QUEST @ UW - Madison</a> </div> <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="navbar-collapse-1"> <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/team/index.html">Team</a></li>  <li><a href="/publications/index.html">Publications</a></li> <li><a href="/software/index.html">Software</a></li>  <li><a href="/outreach/index.html">Outreach</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="row"> <div id="homeid" class="col-sm-8">  <p>Welcome to the official website of QUEST, we are Quantum and Emerging Systems and Architecture group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! Our team explores a wide range of disciplines within system and architectural design, quantum computing, hardware security, and sustainability. We are interested in developing new abstractions, architectures, and tools for quantum and classical computing systems.</p>  <div id="carousel" class="carousel slide" data-ride="carousel" data-interval="4000" data-pause="hover">  <ol class="carousel-indicators"> <li data-target="#carousel" data-slide-to="0" class="active"></li> <li data-target="#carousel" data-slide-to="1"></li> <li data-target="#carousel" data-slide-to="2"></li> <li data-target="#carousel" data-slide-to="3"></li> <li data-target="#carousel" data-slide-to="4"></li> <li data-target="#carousel" data-slide-to="5"></li> <li data-target="#carousel" data-slide-to="6"></li> </ol> <div class="carousel-inner" id="myCarousel"> <div class="item active img-fluid"> <img src="/images/teampic/teampic_2.jpg" alt="TEAM pic at ISCA 2023 excursion" /> </div> <div class="item img-fluid"> <img src="/images/teampic/hercules.jpg" alt="HERCULES at ISCA 2023" /> </div> <div class="item img-fluid"> <img src="/images/teampic/OSCAR.jpg" 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/> <em>Navnil Choudhury, Chaithanya Naik Mude, Sanjay Das, Preetham Chandra Tikkireddi, Swamit Tannu, Kanad Basu </em><br /> <a href="">NDSS 2025</a> | <a href=""> PDF </a> | <a href=""> Slides </a></p> <p>Understanding Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Superconducting Qubit Readout Architectures <br /> <em>Satvik Maurya, Chaithanya Naik Mude, Benjamin Lienhard, Swamit Tannu </em><br /> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.08962">QCE 2024</a> | <a href=""> PDF </a> | <a href=""> Slides </a></p> <p>Variational Quantum Algorithm Landscape Reconstruction by Low-Rank Tensor Completion <br /> <em>Tianyi Hao, Zichang He, Ruslan Shaydulin, Marco Pistoia, Swamit Tannu </em><br /> <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.10941">QCE 2024</a> | <a href=""> PDF </a> | <a href=""> Slides </a></p> <p>SuperBP: Design Space Exploration of Perceptron-Based Branch Predictors for Superconducting CPUs <br /> <em>Haipeng Zha, Swamit Tannu, and Murali Annavaram </em><br /> <a href="">MICRO 2023</a> | <a href=""> PDF </a> | <a href=""> Slides </a></p> <p>Scaling Qubit Readout with Hardware Efficient Machine Learning Architectures <br /> <em>Satvik Maurya, Chaithanya Naik Mude, William Oliver, Benjamin Lienhard, Swamit Tannu </em><br /> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3579371.3589042">ISCA 2023</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2023/HERQULES_Camera_Ready (3).pdf"> PDF </a> | <a href="downloads/HERQULES_ISCA.pptx"> Slides </a></p> <p>Enabling High Performance Debugging for Variational Quantum Algorithms using Compressed Sensing <br /> <em>Tianyi Hao<em>, Kun Liu</em>, Swamit Tannu </em><br /> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3579371.3589044">ISCA 2023</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2023/ISCA_2023_camera_ready (4).pdf"> PDF </a> | <a href="downloads/OSCAR_pre_ISCA2023_v1.7.pdf"> Slides </a></p> <p>Synthesizing Quantum-Circuit Optimizers <br /> <em>Amanda Xu, Abtin Molavi, Lauren Pick, Swamit Tannu, Aws Albarghouthi </em><br /> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3591254">PLDI 2023</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2023/2211.09691 (3).pdf"> PDF </a></p> <p>COMPAQT: Compressed Waveform Memory Architecture for Scalable Qubit Control <br /> <em>Satvik Maurya, Swamit Tannu </em><br /> <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9923861">MICRO 2022</a> | <a href="downloads/COMPAQT_CameraReady.pdf"> PDF </a> | <a href="downloads/compaqt_micro22.pptx"> Slides </a></p> <p>Qubit Mapping and Routing via MaxSAT <br /> <em>Abtin Molavi, Amanda Xu, Martin Diges, Lauren Pick, Swamit Tannu, Aws Albarghouthi </em><br /> <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9923822">MICRO 2022</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2022/2208.13679 (2).pdf"> PDF </a></p> <p>HAMMER: boosting fidelity of noisy Quantum circuits by exploiting Hamming behavior of erroneous outcomes <br /> <em>Swamit Tannu, Poulami Das, Ramin Ayanzadeh, Moinuddin Qureshi </em><br /> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3503222.3507703">ASPLOS 2022</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2022/HAMMER_preprints.pdf"> PDF </a></p> <p>Laser Tag: Flipping Bits in DRAM using Laser Induced Localized Heating <br /> <em>Saurav Mathur, Nirmit Jallawar, Swamit Tannu </em><br /> <a href="https://dramsec.ethz.ch/papers/mathur-dramsec22.pdf">DRAMSec 2022</a> | <a href=""> PDF </a> | <a href=""> Slides </a></p> <p>The Dirty Secret of SSDs: Embodied Carbon <br /> <em>Swamit Tannu, Prashant Nair </em><br /> <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv220710793T/abstract">HotCarbon 2022</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2022/DRAMSec (3).pdf"> PDF </a> | <a href=""> Slides </a></p> <p>ADAPT: Mitigating Idling Errors in Qubits via Adaptive Dynamical Decoupling <br /> <em>Poulami Das<em>, Swamit Tannu</em>, Siddarth Dangwal, Moinuddin Qureshi </em><br /> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3466752.3480059">MICRO 2021</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2021/2109.05309 (7).pdf"> PDF </a></p> <p>JigSaw: Boosting Fidelity of NISQ Programs via Measurement Subsetting <br /> <em>Poulami Das, Swamit Tannu, Moinuddin Qureshi </em><br /> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3466752.3480044">MICRO 2021</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2021/2109.05314 (2).pdf"> PDF </a></p> <p>Quantum Computing and the Design of the Ultimate Accelerator <br /> <em>Moinuddin Qureshi, Swamit Tannu </em><br /> <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9537177">MICRO 2021</a> | <a href="downloads/Papers/2021/Quantum_Computing_and_the_Design_of_the_Ultimate_Accelerator (1).pdf"> PDF </a></p>  </div> <div id="newsid" class="col-sm-4" > <div class="well"> <h4>News</h4> <p>October 2024<br><p>Our work on Crosstalk-induced Side Channel in Multi-Tenant Quantum Computers will appear at NDSS 2025</p> </p> <p>September 2024<br><p>Two publications from our research group will be presented at QCE 2024</p> </p> <p>Summer 2024<br><p>Quest lab will be supported via <a href="https://research.wisc.edu/research-forward-round-4/"> Wisconsin Research Forward Award </a></p> </p> <p>Summer 2024<br><p>Satvik selected for Heidelberg Forum</p> </p> <p>Summer 2024<br><p>Edward Halim will join QUEST Research Group as CS summer RA</p> </p> <p>Summer 2024<br><p>Satvik and Ayushi will intern at IBM Research</p> </p> <p>Summer 2024<br><p>Lakshika will intern at Sandia National Lab</p> </p> <p>Summer 2024<br><p>Tianyi will intern at JP Morgan Chase Quantum Team</p> </p> <p>Summer 2024<br><p>Chaithanya is attending Near-term Quantum Algorithm Summer School at Sherbrooke</p> </p> <h4><a href="/allnews.html">... see all News</a></h4> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer" class="panel"> <div class="panel-footer"> <div class="container-fluid"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <p>&copy 2023 QUEST-UWM. 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