In the Summer and Fall of 2022, I was a member LaSER research project at UCLA. This project aims to aid a Quantum Computing experiment at UCLA by improving the experiment’s control software. I worked with a professor of computer science and two UCLA computer science master students on the project.

Background

In UCLA, there are currently three physics labs working on creating extremely reliable Qbits—the quantum bits that make up quantum computers—so quantum computers can become more effective in the future. While their experiments are going well, the physics labs are struggling with the higher-level management software that sets up, manages, and keeps track of the experiments. The goal of the LaSER group is to add a testing system to the control software to make it easier to bugfix the software and ultimately easier to improve the software.

My Contributions/Goals

So far on the project, I have focused my efforts on making the physics students’ quantum computing management code runnable on a local virtual server. This has mostly involved fixing compatibility bugs and dependency errors. Recently, I along with my master student partners began the process of starting the virtual server and running the code on it.

In the future, I aim to get the codebase’s test files working, and then I will help work on the project’s main goal: setting up the virtual test environment.