Members

Below are active members of the Quantum Programming Community. Each profile includes contact links, research interests, and contributions.

Organizers

John Ye — UCLA

Area: Quantum Systems & Error Correction

Webpage: https://yezhuoyang.github.io/

John works on scalable quantum error-correction infrastructure, helper-qubit-aware scheduling, and logical error-rate estimation methodologies for large-scale quantum processors.

Jens Palsberg — Professor, UCLA

Webpage: https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/

Jens Palsberg is the faculty advisor of QuBruin.

Core members

Aarav Pabla — UCLA

Area: Quantum Systems & Error Correction

Webpage: https://github.com/apabla1

Aarav is interested in adapting fault-tolerant schemes for scalable quantum computing. He works on efficient quantum LDPC architectures and robust implementations of fault-tolerant protocols in the presence of realistic hardware noise.

Contest Award Winners

Members listed below participated in hackathons and competitions and contributed to award-winning projects featured on the Awards page.

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YQuantum 2025 — QuEra Track Winners

Mu Niu

Member of the QuEra Track winning team at YQuantum 2025. Mu is a PhD student working mostly on the theory of trapped ion and quantum simulation. He enjoys reading novels, playing soccer, and board games in free time.

Victor Yu

Member of the QuEra Track winning team at YQuantum 2025.

Hanyu Wang

Member of the QuEra Track winning team at YQuantum 2025.

Haochen Wang

Member of the QuEra Track winning team at YQuantum 2025.

YQuantum 2024 — Grand Prize 3rd Place

Qiyu Liu

Member of the Grand Prize 3rd Place team at YQuantum 2024.

Manvi Agrawal

Member of the Grand Prize 3rd Place team at YQuantum 2024.

Changsoo Kim

Member of the Grand Prize 3rd Place team at YQuantum 2024.

MIT Hackathon 2024 — Quandela Track Winners

Yarin Heffes

Member of the Quandela Track winning team at MIT Hackathon 2024.

Roberto Negrin

Member of the Quandela Track winning team at MIT Hackathon 2024.