Summary of Research
My research focus is the co-design of quantum hardware and software for utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. Such a quantum computer has the potential to dramatically reduce the resource requirements for computational problems in cryptography and chemical simulation compared to existing classical computers. Of particular interest to me is the development of noise-aware decoders for quantum error correction (QEC) codes, which leverage the known noise profile of a quantum processor to improve logical error suppression. More broadly, I am interested in scalable QEC protocols, in-situ logical noise characterization, and full-stack quantum architectures.
My past research has focused on advancing techniques for assessing the performance of quantum computers. This work includes the development of a streamlined software tool for creating scalable and robust benchmarks from quantum algorithms, and the application of sparse signal recovery techniques to quantum state tomography.
Publications
A. Miller, C. Ostrove, J. Hines, N. Siekierski, K. Young, R. Blume-Kohout, T. Proctor, "Scalable linearized gate set tomography," arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.11158, 2026.
N. Siekierski, K. Chandramouli, C. Kuemmerle, B. Bakalov, D. Baron, "Approximate Message Passing for Quantum State Tomography," arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12857, 2025.
N. Siekierski, S. Seritan, N. Patel, S. Niu, T. Lubinski, T. Proctor, "Software for Creating Scalable Benchmarks from Quantum Algorithms," arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.02134, 2025.
N. Patel, A. Giri, H. Pramod Patil, N. Siekierski, A. Chatterjee, S. Johri, T. Proctor, T. Lubinski, S. Niu, "Platform-Agnostic Modular Architecture for Quantum Benchmarking," arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08469, 2025.
N. Siekierski, A. Wilber-Gauthier, and S. Seritan, "Scalable Application-Oriented Benchmarking of Quantum Computers", in Computer Science Research Institute Summer Proceedings 2024, M. B. P. Adams, T. A. Casey, and B. W. Reuter, eds., Technical Report SAND2024-16688O, Sandia National Laboratories, 2024, pp. 270-276.
Awards
Outstanding Research Senior Award, North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Sciences (2026)
Outstanding Senior Award for Scholarly Achievement, NCSU College of Engineering (2026)
Outstanding Research Senior Award, NCSU Department of Mathematics (2026)
Outstanding Senior Award for Scholarly Achievement, NCSU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) (2026)
Terrific Team Award, NCSU ECE Senior Design (2025)
1st Place in Embedded Systems, NCSU ECE Senior Design (2025)
Integration Bee Champion, NCSU Department of Mathematics (2023, 2024)
Science Olympiad Scholarship (2022)