Chaithanya Naik Mude

Ph.D. candidate, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Advised by Prof. Swamit Tannu

University of Wisconsin–Madison

cnaik@cs.wisc.edu

CV (PDF)

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, advised by Prof. Swamit Tannu. I work at the intersection of computer architecture and quantum computing: systems that make quantum error correction and qubit readout reliable enough to scale. That includes leakage speculation for QEC (MICRO 2025), hardware-efficient machine learning for superconducting and neutral-atom readout (ISCA 2023, DAC 2025, Phys. Rev. Applied), and crosstalk side channels on multi-tenant machines (NDSS 2025, QCE 2024). I previously completed my M.Tech. and B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.

Research interests. Quantum error correction and leakage-aware decoding; superconducting and neutral-atom qubit readout; hardware-efficient ML for quantum control; quantum circuit synthesis; side-channel security of multi-tenant quantum systems.

Currently

  • Product Solutions Research Intern at Quantum Machines (Feb 2026–present): calibration of superconducting control stacks and readout pipelines for neutral-atom systems.
  • ML decoder for the surface code that folds leakage speculation into decoding and uses adaptive RL to track evolving hardware error profiles.
  • Unified adaptive ML (GAIL) for (R_z)/unitary synthesis across dynamic hardware configurations.

news

Feb 01, 2026 Started as a Product Solutions Research Intern at Quantum Machines, working on calibration of superconducting control stacks and readout pipelines for neutral-atom systems.
Oct 29, 2025 Efficient Measurement of Neutral-Atom Qubits with Matched Filters appeared in Physical Review Applied.
Oct 18, 2025 Accurate Leakage Speculation for Quantum Error Correction appeared at MICRO 2025 in Seoul.
Jun 22, 2025 Efficient and Scalable Architectures for Multi-level Superconducting Qubit Readout appeared at DAC 2025. Named a DAC Young Fellow.
Feb 24, 2025 Crosstalk-induced Side Channel Threats in Multi-Tenant NISQ Computers appeared at NDSS 2025.

selected publications

  1. Accurate Leakage Speculation for Quantum Error Correction
    Chaithanya Naik Mude and Swamit Tannu
    In 58th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, 2025
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  2. Efficient Measurement of Neutral-Atom Qubits with Matched Filters
    Robert M. Kent, Linipun Phuttitarn, Chaithanya N. Mude, Swamit Tannu, Mark Saffman, Gregory Lafyatis, and Daniel J. Gauthier
    Physical Review Applied, 2025
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  3. Efficient and Scalable Architectures for Multi-level Superconducting Qubit Readout
    Chaithanya Naik Mude, Satvik Maurya, Benjamin Lienhard, and Swamit Tannu
    In 62nd Design Automation Conference, 2025
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  4. Enabling Fast and Accurate Neutral Atom Readout through Image Denoising
    Chaithanya Naik Mude, Linipun Phuttitarn, Satvik Maurya, Kunal Sinha, Mark Saffman, and Swamit Tannu
    arXiv preprint, 2025
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  5. Crosstalk-induced Side Channel Threats in Multi-Tenant NISQ Computers
    Navnil Choudhury, Chaithanya Naik Mude, Sanjay Das, Preetham Tikkireddi, Swamit Tannu, and Kanad Basu
    In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, 2025
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  6. Understanding Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Superconducting Qubit Readout Architectures
    Satvik Maurya, Chaithanya Naik Mude, Benjamin Lienhard, and Swamit Tannu
    In IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, 2024
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  7. Scaling Qubit Readout with Hardware Efficient Machine Learning Architectures
    Satvik Maurya, Chaithanya Naik Mude, William D. Oliver, Benjamin Lienhard, and Swamit Tannu
    In 50th International Symposium on Computer Architecture, 2023
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