Pranav Gokhale
I am the VP of Quantum Software at ColdQuanta. Previously, I was the CEO and Co-founder of Super.tech, which was acquired by ColdQuanta in May 2022. I received my PhD in quantum computation at UChicago, where I was advised by Fred Chong. My work focuses on breaking the abstraction barrier between quantum hardware and software, with the aim of realizing practical applications sooner than otherwise possible. My graduate research was funded by the NDSEG and Eckhardt Fellowships and led to several publications and patents. Prior to graduate school, I attended Princeton University, where I studied computer science and physics. For my interests and background outside of quantum computing, see my profiles on Quora and LinkedIn.
Publications
- Teague Tomesh, Pranav Gokhale, [+7]Victory Omole, Gokul Ravi, Kaitlin Smith, Joshua Viszlai, Xin-Chuan Wu, Nikos Hardavellas, Margaret R. Martonosi, Fred Chong. SupermarQ: A Scalable Quantum Benchmark Suite. HPCA-28. Apr 2022. HPCA Best Paper Award.
- Media: AWS, BCG, Press Release, Protiviti, TechUK, Whitepaper.
- Gokul Ravi, Pranav Gokhale, [+6]Yi Ding, William M. Kirby, Kaitlin N. Smith, Jonathan M. Baker, Peter J. Love, Henry Hoffmann, Kenneth R. Brown, and Frederic T. Chong. CAFQA: Clifford Ansatz For Quantum Accuracy. Feb 2022.
- Kaitlin N. Smith, Gokul Ravi, [+10]Nicholas T. Bronn, Andre Carvalho, Alba Cervera-Lierta, Frederic T. Chong, Michael Cubeddu, Akel Hashim, Liang Jiang, Olivia Lanes, Matthew J. Otten, David I. Schuster, Pranav Gokhale, Nathan Earnest, Alexey Galda. Summary: Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) Pulse-level Quantum Control Workshop. Feb 2022.
- Gokul Ravi, Kaitlin N. Smith, Pranav Gokhale, Andrea Mari, Nathan Earnest, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Fred Chong. VAQEM: A Variational Approach to Quantum Error Mitigation. HPCA-28. Feb 2022.
- Teague Tomesh, Kaiwen Gui, Pranav Gokhale, Yunong Shi, Martin Suchara, Margaret Martonosi, Fred Chong. Optimized Quantum Program Execution Ordering to Mitigate Errors in Simulations of Quantum Systems. ICRC. Dec 2021. ICRC Best Paper Award.
- Media: Argonne National Laboratory.
- Akel Hashim, Rich Rines, Victory Omole, [+5]Ravi K. Naik, John Mark Kreikebaum, David I. Santiago, Frederic T. Chong, Irfan Siddiqi, Pranav Gokhale. Optimized fermionic SWAP networks with equivalent circuit averaging for QAOA. Nov 2021.
- Gokul Ravi, Kaitlin N. Smith, Pranav Gokhale, Frederic T. Chong. Quantum Computing in the Cloud: Analyzing job and machine characteristics. IISWC 2021. Nov 2021.
- Samantha Koretsky, Pranav Gokhale, [+8]Jonathan M. Baker, Joshua Viszlai, Honghao Zheng, Niroj Gurung, Ryan Burg, Esa Aleksi Paaso, Amin Khodaei, Rozhin Eskandarpour, Frederic T. Chong. Adapting Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for Unit Commitment. IEEE QCE. Oct 2021
- Pranav Gokhale, Samantha Koretsky, Shilin Huang, Swarnadeep Majumder, Andrew Drucker, Kenneth R. Brown, Frederic T. Chong. Quantum Fan-out: Circuit Optimizations and Technology Modeling. IEEE QCE. Oct 2021.
- Ziqi Ma, Pranav Gokhale, Tian-Xing Zheng, Sisi Zhou, Xiaofei Yu, Liang Jiang, Peter Maurer, Frederic T. Chong. Adaptive Circuit Learning for Quantum Metrology. IEEE QCE. Oct 2021.
- Pranav Gokhale, Teague Tomesh, Martin Suchara, Frederic T. Chong. Faster and More Reliable Quantum SWAPs via Native Gates. Sep 2021. Top-ranking Submission in IBM Open Quantum Science Prize.
- Zain H. Saleem, Teague Tomesh, Michael A. Perlin, Pranav Gokhale, Martin Suchara. Quantum Divide and Conquer for Combinatorial Optimization and Distributed Computing. Jul 2021.
- Teague Tomesh, Pranav Gokhale, Eric R. Anschuetz, Frederic T. Chong. Coreset Clustering on Small Quantum Computers. Electronics Journal. Jul 2021.
- Pranav Gokhale, Olivia Angiuli, Yongshan Ding, Kaiwen Gui, Teague Tomesh, Martin Suchara, Margaret Martonosi, Frederic T. Chong. Minimizing State Preparations in Variational Quantum Eigensolver by Partitioning into Commuting Families. IEEE Quantum Week QCE. Oct 2020. QCE Best Paper Award and IBM Q Best Paper Award.
- Media: IBM Research Blog, HPCwire
- Pranav Gokhale, Ali Javadi-Abhari, Nathan Earnest, Yunong Shi, Frederic T. Chong. Optimized Quantum Compilation for Near-Term Algorithms with OpenPulse. MICRO (virtual). Oct 2020.
- Yongshan Ding, Pranav Gokhale, Sophia Fuhui Lin, Richard Rines, Thomas Propson, Frederic T. Chong. Systematic Crosstalk Mitigation for Superconducting Qubits via Frequency-Aware Compilation. MICRO (virtual). Oct 2020. Honorable Mention for IEEE Micro Top Picks.
- Rozhin Eskandarpour, Pranav Gokhale, Amin Khodaei, Frederic T. Chong, Esa Passo, Shay Bahramirad. Quantum Computing for Enhancing Grid Security. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Jun 2020.
- Jonathan M. Baker, Casey Duckering, Pranav Gokhale, Natalie C. Brown, Kenneth R. Brown, Frederic T. Chong. Improved Quantum Circuits via Intermediate Qutrits. ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing.
- Yunong Shi, Pranav Gokhale, [+11]Prakash Murali, Jonathan M. Baker, Casey Duckering, Yongshan Ding, Natalie C. Brown, Christopher Chamberland, Ali Javadi-Ahbari, Andrew W. Cross, David I. Schuster, Kenneth R. Brown, Margaret Martonosi, Frederic T. Chong. Resource-Efficient Quantum Computing by Breaking Abstractions. Proceedings of the IEEE. Jun 2020.
- Pranav Gokhale, Jonathan M. Baker, Casey Duckering, Natalie C. Brown, Kenneth R. Brown, Frederic T. Chong. Extending the Frontier of Quantum Computers with Qutrits. IEEE Micro Top Picks from the Computer Architecture Conferences. May 2020.
- Kaiwen Gui, Teague Tomesh, Pranav Gokhale, Yunong Shi, Frederic T. Chong, Margaret Martonosi, Martin Suchara. Term Grouping and Travelling Salesperson for Digital Quantum Simulation. APS March Meeting. Jan 2020.
- Pranav Gokhale, Yongshan Ding, Thomas Propson, Christopher Winkler, Nelson Leung, Yunong Shi, David I. Schuster, Henry Hoffmann, Frederic T. Chong. Partial Compilation of Variational Algorithms for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Machines. MICRO in Columbus, OH. Oct 2019.
- Pranav Gokhale, Frederic T. Chong. \(O(N^3)\) Measurement Cost for Variational Quantum Eigensolver on Molecular Hamiltonians. Aug 2019.
- Pranav Gokhale, Jonathan M. Baker, Casey Duckering, Natalie C. Brown, Kenneth R. Brown, Frederic T. Chong. Asymptotic Improvements to Quantum Circuits via Qutrits. ISCA in Phoenix, AZ. Jun 2019. IEEE Micro Top Pick Award.
- Yunong Shi, Nelson Leung, Pranav Gokhale, Zane Rossi, David I. Schuster, Henry Hoffmann, Frederic T. Chong. Optimized Compilation of Aggregated Instructions for Realistic Quantum Computers. ASPLOS in Providence, RI. Jan 2019.
- Jarrod R. McClean, Kevin J. Sung, Ian D. Kivlichan, Yudong Cao, Chengyu Dai, E. Schuyler Fried, Craig Gidney, Brendan Gimby, Pranav Gokhale, [+25]Thomas Häner, Tarini Hardikar, Vojtěch Havlíček, Oscar Higgott, Cupjin Huang, Josh Izaac, Zhang Jiang, Xinle Liu, Sam McArdle, Matthew Neeley, Thomas O'Brien, Bryan O'Gorman, Isil Ozfidan, Maxwell D. Radin, Jhonathan Romero, Nicholas Rubin, Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, Kanav Setia, Sukin Sim, Damian S. Steiger, Mark Steudtner, Qiming Sun, Wei Sun, Daochen Wang, Fang Zhang, Ryan Babbush. OpenFermion: The Electronic Structure Package for Quantum Computers. Jun 2018.
- Ali Javadi-Abhari, Adam Holmes, Shruti Patil, Jeff Heckey, Daniel Kudrow, Pranav Gokhale, David Noursi, Lee Ehudin, Yongshan Ding, Xin-Chuan Ryan Wu, Yunong Shi. ScaffCC: Scaffold Compiler Collection. Jun 2018.
- Ali Javadi-Abhari, Pranav Gokhale, Adam Holmes, Diana Franklin, Kenneth R. Brown, Margaret Martonosi, Frederic T. Chong. Optimized Surface Code Communication in Superconducting Quantum Computers. MICRO in Boston, MA. Aug 2017.
- Pranav Gokhale. Implementation of Square Root Function Using Quantum Circuits. Undergraduate Awards. Jan 2014. Highly Commended.
- Eric Silver, John D. Gillaspy, Pranav Gokhale, [+8]Elliot P. Kanter, Nancy S. Brickhouse, R. W. Dunford, Kate P. Kirby, T. Lin, Joseph McDonald, D. Schneider, Soenke Seifert, Linda Young. Work Towards Experimental Evidence Of Hard X-Ray Photoionization In Highly Charged Krypton. AIP Conference Proceedings. Aug 2010.
Speaking
- Panelist at UChicago Quantum Workshop in London, France. Jun 2022.
- Panelist at UChicago Quantum Workshop in Paris, France. Apr 2022.
- Panelist at Inside Quantum Technology, The Future of Quantum Computer Languages, in San Diego. May 2022.
- Panelist at DOE Congresional Panels on Quantum. Mar–May 2022.
- Panelist at DeepTechU in Chicago. May 2022.
- Panelist at UChicago Startups: From Idea to Founding a Company. Apr 2022.
- Speaker at UChicago Entrepreneurship in Science and Medicine. Apr 2022.
- Keynote Speaker at Quantum Computing Applications in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Workshop in Copenhagen, Denmark. Apr 2022.
- Speaker at Commercial Club of Chicago meeting, Chicago: Redefining Winning in Tech. Mar 2022.
- Q-CHOP: Quantum Constrained Hamiltonian OPtimization talk at APS March Meeting in Chicago. Mar 2022.
- Panelist at Polsky Center Immersion Day in Chicago. Mar 2022.
- Post-Quantum World Podcast guest for episode Benchmarking Quantum Computers with Super.tech. Mar 2022.
- Speaker at "Computing Big Fish to Fry" program (5 Lakes Insitute). Feb 2022.
- Honoree/Speaker at Chicago Inno Startups to Watch. Feb 2022.
- Presenter at UChicago Research Computing Center and Quantum Society Workshop. Jan 2022.
- Panelist at Quantum Computing Testbeds Stakeholder Workshop. Dec 2021.
- Quantum Circuit Hacks.
- Nov 2021. HackPrinceton Talk.
- Apr 2021. Uncommon Hacks (UChicago Hackathon) Talk.
- Feb 2021. UChicago Quantum Club Seminar.
- EPiQC Distinguished Alumni panelist. Nov 2021.
- Panelist at Chicago Quantum Summit. Nov 2021.
- The Landscape of Energy Startups. Panelist at ComEd Community of the Future: Bronzeville Technology and Energy Expo. Oct 2021.
- Technical Talks at IEEE Quantum Week (QCE 2021). Oct 2021.
- Adapting Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for Unit Commitment.
- Quantum Fan-out: Circuit Optimizations and Technology Modeling.
- Recent Results on Quantum Approximate Optimization. Quantum AI Workshop at QCE 2021. Oct 2021.
- Intro to Quantum. Sep 2021.
- Technical Entrepreneurship Class at Northwestern University.
- Emerging Technologies Class at University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business.
- Post-Quantum World Podcast guest for episode Use Cases of Quantum. Jun 2021.
- Quantum Computing: Hope vs. Hype panelist at IOT Solutions World Congress. May 2021.
- Lehigh@Nasdaq Disruptive Engineers panelist. Apr 2021.
- Fed Supernova quantum startup showcase presenter (Capital Factory). Mar 2021.
- Quantum Entrepreneurship Career Launcher speaker (UChicago). Feb 2021.
- Startup Panel moderator at Chicago Quantum Summit. Nov 2020.
- Quantum in Finance panelist at BCG + P33 event. Oct 2020.
- Innovation's Next Frontier: Quantum Computing panelist at ThinkChicago: Ideas. Oct 2020.
- Optimized Quantum Compilation for Near-Term Algorithms with OpenPulse.
- Oct 2020. Presentation at MICRO 53.
- May 2020. Presentation for UChicago QIP Seminar.
- Apr 2020. Presentation for DOE TEAM seminar.
- Enabling and Accelerating the Realization of Scalable Quantum Computing.
- July 2020. AFOSR Quantum Information Science and Atomic/Molecular Physics Program Review in Arlington, VA (virtual).
- Practical Aspects of Building a Software Stack for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Devices.
- [Postponed due to COVID-19] Tutorial at ASPLOS 2020 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Polsky Entrepreneurial Outlook: Quantum 2020.
- Feb 2020. Panelist for event at Polsky Center in Chicago, IL. Event Link.
- Term Grouping for VQE.
- Nov 2019. Presentation at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India.
- Oct 2019. Presentation at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, IL.
- Oct 2019. Poster at MICRO 52 in Columbus, OH. Poster PDF.
- Aug 2019. Presentation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN.
- Jun 2019. Presentation at Quantum Resource Estimation (QRE) Workshop in Phoenix, AZ. Slides.
- Partial Compilation of Variational Algorithms for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Machines.
- Oct 2019. Presentation at MICRO 52 in Columbus, OH. Slides.
- Commercial Outlook for Quantum Computing.
- Aug 2019. Presentation to UChicago Booth MBA students during electives week.
- Asymptotic Improvements to Quantum Circuits via Qutrits.
- Aug 2019. Poster at NDSEG Conference in San Diego, CA.
- Jun 2019. Presentation at ISCA in Phoenix, AZ.
- Apr 2019. Master's Presentation at UChicago.
- Jan 2019. Poster at QIP in Boulder, CO. Best Poster Award. Poster PDF.
- Dec 2018. Poster at STAQ Kickoff in Durham, NC.
- Oct 2018. Poster at MICRO 51 in Fukuoka, Japan.
- Variational Quantum Eigensolver (EPiQC Tutorial).
- Jun 2019. STAQ Quantum Ideas Summer School in Durham, NC.
- Jun 2019. DAC in Las Vegas, NV.
- Mar 2019. DATE in Florence, Italy.
- Oct 2018. MICRO in Fukuoka, Japan.
- Jun 2018. ISCA in Los Angeles, CA. Youtube.
- Quantum Computers: At the Cusp of Reality. Dec 2018. STIx Conference at U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. Slides.
- Also featured on AAAS Sci on the Fly podcast.
- Quantum Computing Crash Course + Variational Quantum Eigensolver. Jul 2018. ATPESC in St. Charles, IL. Slides. Youtube.
Service
- In 2018, I signed the Giving What We Can pledge to donate at least 10% of my income to effective charities.
- Program Commitee, IEEE QCE (Quantum Computing & Systems track and Quantum Algorithms & Applications track). Oct 2021.
- Mentor, I2Q "I too can Quantum" workshop. Jun 2021.
- Organizer, Pulse-level Quantum Control for Quantum Applications Workshop. May 2021.
- Member of P33 Quantum Council. Jan 2021 - present.
- Program Committee, Applied Quantum Artificial Intelligence (AQAI) Workshop. Oct 2020.
- Session Chair, IEEE Quantum Week (QCE20). Oct 2020.
- Program Committee, Quantum Resource Estimation (QRE) Workshop. May 2020.
- Organizer, Quantum + Power Grid Workshop. Feb 2020.
- Paper reviewer, see Publons for a subset of review verifications.
- Volunteer for several outreach activities: Hour of Code, ACM-W mentorship program, compileHer.
- Research mentor for undergraduates and MS students: Chris Winkler, Clover Zheng, David Owusu-Antwi, Maddie DeVoe, Samantha Koretsky, Thomas Propson, Ziqi Ma.