ECE KORHAMMER SEMINAR SERIES Speaker: Jason Cong, UCLA Computer Science Department Title: Scalable Quantum Compilation Day: Wednesday, September 10, 2025 Time: 4:30 PM Location: B205 Engineering Quadrangle Hosts: Jeffrey Thompson and David Wentzlaff Abstract: Quantum compilation includes two major steps: quantum layout synthesis (QLS), which determines the space and time of each gate execution, and quantum circuit synthesis (QCS), which aims at obtaining most efficient circuits for execution. In this talk, I shall first present that our recent work on scalable QLS using multi-level optimization, graph edge coloring, and graph matching for both superconducting and neural atom based quantum systems. Then, I shall present our recent progress on QCS, including both initial state preparation with the shortest sequence of two-qubit gates, and T-gate minimization using the don’t-care conditions. Bio: Jason Cong is the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence Professor at the UCLA Computer Science Department (and a former department chair), with joint appointment from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He is the director of Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) and the director of VLSI Architecture, Synthesis, and Technology (VAST) Laboratory. Dr. Cong’s research interests include novel architectures and compilation for customizable computing, synthesis of VLSI circuits and systems, and quantum computing. He has over 500 publications in these areas, including 20 best paper awards, and 5 papers in the FPGA and Reconfigurable Computing Hall of Fame. He and his former students co-founded AutoESL, which developed the most widely used high-level synthesis tool for FPGAs (renamed to Vivado HLS and Vitis HLS after Xilinx’s acquisition). He is member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and the National Academy of Inventors. He is recipient of the SIA University Research Award, the EDAA Achievement Award, the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal, the Phil Kaufman Award, and most recently, the ACM Chuck Thacker Breakthrough Award “for fundamental contributions to the design and automation of field-programmable systems and customizable computing.” This seminar is supported with funds from the Korhammer Lecture Series.