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Claire Huo

Yuqian (Claire) Huo

Hey Y'all! I am a fourth year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University. I am honored to be supervised by Dr. Tirthak Patel working on quantum computing and applications. Before joining Rice, I completed my Master's degree at Washington University in St. Louis, where I was fortunate to work with Dr. Ning Zhang on Control Flow Integrity (CFI) for real-time systems.

My research interests include quantum computing, high-performance computing, and system security. I focus on quantum machine learning, reliability and performance optimization, parallel computing, and performance modeling.


Publications

Three Birds with one Stone: Improving Performance, Convergence, and System Throughput with Nest
Yuqian Huo, David Quiroga, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Tirthak Patel
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2026
[Paper] [Code]

Anchor: Reducing Temporal and Spatial Output Performance Variability on Quantum Computers
Yuqian Huo, Daniel Leeds, Jason Ludmir, Nicholas S. DiBrita, Tirthak Patel
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2026
[Paper] [Code]

WSBD: Freezing-Based Optimizer for Quantum Neural Networks
Christopher Kverne, Mayur Akewar, Yuqian Huo, Tirthak Patel, Janki Bhimani
International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), 2026
[Preprint]

Revisiting Noise-adaptive Transpilation in Quantum Computing: How Much Impact Does it Have?
Yuqian Huo, Jinbiao Wei, Christopher Kverne, Mayur Akewar, Janki Bhimani, Tirthak Patel
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2025
[PrePrint] [Code]

Position: Quantum Neural Networks Need Checkpointing
Christopher Kverne, Mayur Akewar, Yuqian Huo, Tirthak Patel, Janki Bhimani
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage), 2025
[Paper]

Modeling and Simulating Rydberg Atom Quantum Computers for Hardware-Software Co-design with PachinQo
Jason Ludmir, Yuqian Huo, Nicholas S. DiBrita, Tirthak Patel
Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2025
[Paper] [Code]

ReCon: Reconfiguring Analog Rydberg Atom Quantum Computers for Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks
Nicholas S. DiBrita, Daniel Leeds, Yuqian Huo, Jason Ludmir, Tirthak Patel
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), 2024
[Paper] [Code]

CIVSCOPE: Analyzing Potential Memory Corruption Bugs in Compartment Interfaces
Yi Chien, Vlad-Andrei Bădoiu, Yudi Yang, Yuqian Huo, Kelly Kaoudis, Hugo Lefeuvre, Pierre Olivier, Nathan Dautenhahn
Safety and Verification Proceedings (KISV), 2023
[Paper]

Teaching

Teaching Assistant - COMP 341: Intro to AI (Rice University), Fall 2024

Teaching Assistant - COMP 421: OS and Concurrent Programming (Rice University), Spring 2023

Teaching Assistant - CSE 332S: Object-Oriented Programming (Washington University in St. Louis), Spring 2021, Summer 2021, Fall 2021

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