Mihir Talati

Dual Degree · B.S. Computer Science (Honors — Quantum Information track) & B.S. Physics (Honors) · GPA 3.974

Education

University of Maryland — College Park

Computer Science (Honors) · Physics (Honors)

Expected Graduation · May 2027GPA · 3.974

Scholarships & Distinctions

Angelo Bardasis Scholarship — Physics
John D. Gannon Scholarship — Computer Science
Dean's List — Every Semester

Work Experience

Researcher · CAAR REU

Combinatorics, Algorithms, and AI for Real Problems

Jun 2025 – PresentJoint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)

Constructing a new family of CSS quantum error-correcting codes for qudits from classical quadratic residue codes.
Validated novel fault-tolerant QEC codes using finite field theory and parallel Python tooling on an HPC cluster.
Proved transversal Clifford and T gate support and tested self-orthogonality and distance across large search spaces.

Undergraduate Researcher · Bright Beams Collective

IREAP Research Experience for Undergraduates

Sep 2023 – Dec 2024Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics

Built custom machine learning and gradient-based optimizers to derive design parameters for a planned beamline.
Ran accelerator simulations to analyze lattice stability and beam quality under varied operating configurations.
Produced animations of betatron motion for outreach presentations and technical discussions.

Software Engineering Intern · JODO PAY

Invoicing System Automation

Jun 2022 – Jul 2022

Automated invoice generation and dispatch for clients, reducing manual processing by 40 staff hours each week.
Integrated Google Workspace APIs to manage templates, customer data, and error handling workflows.

Projects

Nyx — Declarative System & Knowledge Infrastructure

Reproducible NixOS + literate org-roam vault

2024 – Present

Built a modular, reproducible NixOS system (NyxOS/NyxNet/NyxSys) with declarative host, network, and service boundaries.
Designed a distributed org-roam vault — one searchable knowledge graph whose notes live inside each project repo, bound to code via ROAM_REFS.
Authored a literate Doom Emacs configuration and agent-driven tooling, codifying an engineering praxis (single source of truth, declared mirrors, atomicity) enforced by CI canaries.

Quantum State Tomography via QML

GitHub · github.com/Mihir-Null

Sep 2024 – Jul 2025

Co-developed a variational circuit tomography approach, exploring loss landscapes, embedding strategies, and optimizers.
Executed 2,000+ experiments across multi-GPU clusters with a custom orchestrator for reproducible benchmarking.
Co-authored "Quantum state reconstruction with variational quantum circuit" (arXiv:2507.01246).

MIT iQuHack — QuEra Challenge

Honorable Mention

Feb 2025

Designed a compilation pipeline mapping diverse quantum circuits — including QAOA and Steane codes — to QuEra hardware.
Optimized pulse sequences for neutral atom instruction sets, contributing to the team's honorable mention finish.

Quantum Machine Learning Research

Undergraduate Research Portfolio

Aug 2023 – Dec 2024

Implemented quantum image processing with parameterized circuit kernels integrated into CNN architectures.
Created a hybrid transitional optimizer to mitigate barren plateaus in QAOA, presented at the FYIRE Summit 2024.

Terrapin Rocket Team — Kalman Filters

Guidance, Navigation, and Control

Aug 2023 – Jan 2024

Developed six- and nine-state Kalman filters fusing multi-sensor telemetry for rocket position estimation.
Supported the team's winning entry at the 2024 Spaceport America Cup.

Robotics @ UMD — Computer Vision

Testudog Automation

Aug 2023 – Jan 2024

Developed Haar cascade pipelines for the Testudog robotics platform deployed on a Jetson-powered Boston Dynamics Spot.

Club Administration Automation

Workflow Automation Suite

Nov 2024 – Feb 2025

Automated Discord announcements, email campaigns, Instagram publishing, and room reservations for university clubs.
Currently deployed across multiple organizations to streamline administrative overhead.

Housing Market Analysis

Predictive Pricing Models

Jun 2024 – Jul 2024

Trained feedforward neural networks for price prediction using engineered features derived from public listings and census data.
Applied PCA and statistical analysis to identify high-signal attributes and reduce overfitting.

Independent Game Development

National Game Jam Winner

2020 – 2023

Published two action platformers, including a custom 2D soft-body simulation available via Two Guys Studios on itch.io.
Placed second in the 2021 Mindbox National Design Championship; finalist in the 2020 edition.
Built a procedural map generation toolkit leveraging noise algorithms and custom pathfinding.

Organizations

Vice President · Quantum Coalition

Jan 2024 – Present

Promoted to Vice President after serving as Industry Chair (Jan 2024 – Aug 2025).
Co-organized the QRISE research competition with 200+ international participants.
Partnered with the UN and ITU to deliver the QC-FLIQ hackathon for the International Year of Quantum (500+ attendees).

President · Undergraduate Quantum Association

Jan 2025 – Present

Led organizational strategy, programming, and outreach after serving as an officer since 2020.
Produced the Quantum Leap Career Nexus with 240+ attendees and partners including IBM, Microsoft, and IonQ.

Co-Founder · ACM@UMD

Sep 2023 – Present

Restarted the university chapter, launched a new website, and grew membership beyond 145 students.
Led workshops focused on shell scripting, AI, quantum computing, and heuristic search techniques.

Publications

Quantum state reconstruction with variational quantum circuit

Accepted — Quantum Machine Intelligence (2025); arXiv:2507.01246

Introduces a quantum machine learning approach to tomography for high-dimensional states.
Benchmarks loss landscapes, embedding strategies, and optimizer behavior across noise models.
Highlights scalability results enabled by custom experiment orchestration.

A Very Quick Guide to Special Relativity

Published — 2021

Authored and published an accessible primer covering time dilation through mass–energy equivalence.
Focused on first-principles explanations for students exploring modern physics.

Certifications

Qiskit (v0.2x) · IBM

Relevant Courses

Graduate Quantum Information (CMSC657) Computer Science Honors Seminar Differentiable Programming for Agentic AI (CMSC498Z) Natural Language Processing (CMSC470) Data Science (CMSC320) Design & Analysis of Algorithms (CMSC451) Object-Oriented Programming in Java (CMSC132) Applied Probability & Statistics (STAT400) Honors Advanced Modern Physics (PHYS400) Quantum Mechanics II (PHYS402) Accelerator Simulation Multivariate Calculus Linear Algebra Differential Equations

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