Nathaniel Tornow

Nathaniel Tornow

PhD Student and SWE Intern

TU Munich and PlanQC

I'm an incoming PhD student with the Systems Research Group at TU Munich.

My research focuses on compilers and systems for scalable hybrid quantum-classical computing.

I'm also a software engineering intern at PlanQC, a startup building neutral-atom quantum computers.


Education

Topic: Compilers and Software Systems for Quantum Computing

Technical University of Munich logo
2022 - 2025
Technical University of Munich logo
2018 - 2022

Experience

Software Engineer Intern

PlanQC, Munich

Apr 2025 - Present
  • Development of a compiler for quantum circuits to PlanQC's native Neutral-Atom qubit instructions
Jul 2021 - Mar 2025
  • Research and implementation of scalable quantum-classical software systems (Python, CUDA-Quantum)
  • Research on compilers and runtime systems for integrating quantum computers into HPC (LLVM, C++)
  • Lectures: Discrete Probability Theory, Distributed Systems
  • Labs: Introduction to Programming, Systems Programming Lab, Distributed Systems Lab

Software Developer Working Student

Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Munich

Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
  • Full stack web development for the citizen-science portal Baysics (Django, JavaScript)

Publications

Nathaniel Tornow, Emmanouil Giortamis, Pramod Bhatotia

Emmanouil Giortamis, Francisco Romao, Nathaniel Tornow, Pramod Bhatotia

Nathaniel Tornow, Christian B. Mendl, Pramod Bhatotia

Emmanouil Giortamis, Francisco Romao, Nathaniel Tornow, Dmitry Lugovoy, Pramod Bhatotia

Dimitra Giantsidi, Emmanouil Giortamis, Nathaniel Tornow, Florin Dinu, Pramod Bhatotia


Talks

QVM: Quantum Virtual Machine

Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) site visit at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

May 2023

Extending vHive: Support for gVisor Sandboxes

Ease-Lab at the University of Edinburgh

Aug 2021

Academic Experience

Thesis Advisor

CompTN: A Compiler Infrastructure for High-Performance Tensor Network Computing (BSc , link )

External Reviewer

ASPLOS'24

Conference Student Volunteer

IEEE Quantum Week 2024