Department: Princeton Quantum Initiative Year of Study: G1 Undergraduate School: University of Colorado Boulder Undergraduate Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hello, I m Arjun, and I grew up in Boulder, Colorado. I received my B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. During most of my undergrad, I worked in Prof. András Gyenis lab on protected superconducting qubits and microwave engineering for cryogenic environments. Early on, I designed, simulated, and validated a new sample holder for our lab s dilution fridge, and later began contributing to superconducting qubit design, simulation, and measurement. Outside of quantum, I founded CU Boulder's Formula SAE Electric team and served as the Project Manager for our 2026 debut season.
I grew up playing American football and soccer, and today I remain a big NFL, Premier League, and Formula 1 fan. I like to stay healthy by weightlifting, and I spend my free time knocking a ball around with friends, playing video games, or tuning into a must-watch contest.
At Princeton, I work on scalable superconducting qubits for quantum computing, a new type of computation that could transform battery development, alternative fuels, pharmaceuticals, and more by enabling robust molecular simulation. Superconducting qubits are manmade circuits (micrometer-scale circuitry etched into superconducting metal films) that exhibit quantum behavior; you could call them "artificial atoms." Qubits are the building blocks of quantum processors in the same way digital bits are of the computer chips in your phone, laptop, etc., but unlike modern digital technology, packing many qubits (hundreds of thousands, maybe one day millions) densely onto a single chip is a massive engineering problem: it must be solved to achieve large-scale quantum computers that are useful in solving practical problems. We are looking into "flip-chip" architectures as a solution to this problem, graduating from 2D designs to 3D structures to place qubits and control lines on separate planes and maximizing chip surface area while improving qubit stability and logic gate correctness. We design and make qubits in the MNFC with state-of-the-art nanotechnology fabrication tools, and measure them in a dilution fridge capable of temperatures below 10 milliKelvin, making it one of the coldest environments in the universe.
Not available to participate in Summer ReMatch+ program.
