Evan McKinney is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh, co-advised by Dr. Alex K. Jones and Dr. Michael Hatridge. He completed his undergraduate studies at Iowa State University in Computer Engineering and Physics. Evan’s current research focuses on quantum computing architecture and optimizations for near-term applications.
Attended IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2024@ IBM Yorktown Heights, NY.
Workshop presentation @ StableQ (MICRO)’24, Austin, TX.
Invited talk @ Yale Quantum Institute
Quantum Back-End Software Developer Intern @ IBM Yorktown Heights, NY.
Conference paper @ HPCA’24, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Invited talk @ Amazon Braket.
Attended CircuitQED@20 @ Yale, CT.
Awarded FY24 C2QA Postdoc Seed Funding for collaboration with Dr. Eleanor Crane, MIT.
Recognized as a Qiskit-Advocate
Invited talk @ Qiskit Compiler Seminar Series.
Invited talk @ QuCS Lecture Series.
Conference paper @ ISCA’23, Orlando, Florida.
Invited talk @ XCITe, MIT.
Co-advised project awarded QCS-5 Grant from LPS/ARO reserach grant. Read more.
Conference talk @ APS March Meeting, Las Vegas.
Conference paper @ HPCA’23, Montreal, Canada.
Co-advised project awarded Charles E. Kaufman Foundation reserach grant. Read more.
Presented poster @ PQI.
Received NSF Honorable Mention.
Attended APS March Meeting @ Chicago.
Enrolled at University of Pittsburgh.
Attended The Quantum Computing Summer School @ LANL, Los Alamos.
Attended USEQIP @ IQP, University of Waterloo.
Graduated summa cum laude from Iowa State majoring in Computer Engineering and Physics.
McKinney, E., Falstin, G., Yusuf, I., Agarwal, G., Hatridge, M., Jones, A.K
StableQ Quantum System Stability and Reproducibility workshop (StableQ'24), 2024-09-26
McKinney, E., Hatridge, M., Jones, A.K
2024 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023-08-07
McKinney, E., Zhou, C., Xia, M., Hatridge, M., Jones, A.K
Proceedings of the 50th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2023-06-17
McKinney, E., Xia, M., Zhou, C., Lu, P., Hatridge, M., Jones, A.K
2023 IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), 2023-02-25
Graduate Teaching Fellow @ University of Pittsburgh
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Iowa State University