Employment History

• Associate Scientific Director, Quantum Algorithms and Applications, Moderna, 09/2023 – present
• Senior Staff Research Scientist, Stealth Startup, 01/2023 – 09/2023
• Principal Scientist, Quantum Computing, Menten AI, 09/2021 – 01/2023
• Research Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 03/2017 – 08/2021
• Research Scientist, University of Chicago, 09/2016 – 03/2017
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Argonne National Laboratory, 10/2012 – 09/2016

Professional Education

• Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, University of Birmingham (UK), 2012
• B.Sc., Applied Mathematics and Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 2008

Honors and Awards

• IBM Open Science Prize Winner, 2021
• IBM Pulse Access Award, 2020
• Argonne Director’s Competitive Grant, 2015
• Moreton Prize, University of Birmingham 2012, 2011
• Postgraduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Birmingham, 2009
• Midlands Physics Alliance Graduate School Scholarship, UK, 2008
• Overseas Research Student Scholarship, UK, 2008
• HSP Huygens Scholarship, Netherlands, 2008 (declined)

Professional Memberships

Chicago Quantum Exchange, American Physical Society, Materials Research Society

Funding

• NSF EAGER “Large Scale QAOA Quantum Simulator”, 2020 – 2022
• NSF I-Corps (UChicago Polsky Center), 2020 – 2021
• NSF DMR Award “Transport, Fluctuation, and Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in Atomically Thin Crystalline Van der Waals Superconductors”, with P. Kim (Harvard) and V. Vinokur (Argonne), 2018 – 2021
• NSF BSF Award “Non-equilibrium phase transitions in thin superconductors”, 2019 – 2021
• Argonne Laboratory Directed R&D Grant “Theory of Out-of-Equilibrium Phase Transitions”, 2015 – 2018

Publications

• D. Alevras, M. Metkar, T. Friedhoff, J.-E. Park, M. LaDue, V. Kumar, W. Davis, A. Galda, Co-Optimization of Codon Usage and mRNA Secondary Structure Using Quantum Computing, under review (2025).
• V. Kumar, D. Alevras, M. Metkar, E. Welling, C. Cade, I. Niesen, T. Friedhoff, J.-E. Park, S. Shivpuje, M. LaDue, W. Davis, A. Galda, Towards Secondary Structure Prediction of Longer mRNA Sequences Using a Quantum-Centric Optimization Scheme, under review, arXiv:2505.05782 (2025).
• M. Demidik, F. Utro, A. Galda, K. Jansen, D. Blankenberg, L. Parida,
  Quantum Machine Learning Framework for Longitudinal Biomedical Studies, accepted in ACS Chemical Reviews (2025), arXiv:2504.18392 (2025).
• A.M. Smaldone, Y. Shee, G.W. Kyro, C. Xu, N.P. Vu, R. Dutta, M.H. Farag, A. Galda, S. Kumar, E. Kyoseva, V.S. Batista,
  Quantum Machine Learning in Drug Discovery: Applications in Academia and Pharmaceutical Industries, accepted in ACS Chemical Reviews (2025), arXiv:2409.15645.
• D. Alevras, M. Metkar, T Yamamoto, V. Kumar, T. Friedhoff, J.-E. Park, M. Takeori, M. LaDue, W. Davis, and A. Galda, mRNA Secondary Structure Prediction Using Utility-Scale Quantum Computers, 2024 IEEE QCE, 488 (2024).
• A. Kazmina et al., Demonstration of a parity–time symmetry breaking phase transition using superconducting and trapped-ion qutrits, Physical Review A 109, 032619 (2024).
• D. Herman, C. Googin, X. Liu, A. Galda, I. Safro, Y. Sun, M. Pistoia, Y. Alexeev, Quantum Computing for Finance, Nature Reviews Physics (2023).
• A. Galda, E. Gupta, J. Falla, X. Liu, D. Lykov, Y. Alexeev, and I. Safro, Similarity-Based Parameter Transferability in the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm, Frontiers in Quantum Science and Technology, 2 (2023).
• S. Chaudhary, P. Huembeli, I. MacCormack, T.L. Patti, J. Kossaifi, A. Galda, Towards a scalable discrete quantum generative adversarial neural network, Quantum Science and Technology 8, 035002 (2023).
• M. Pandey, T. Zaborniak, H. Melo, A. Galda, V.K. Mulligan, Multibody molecular docking on a quantum annealer, arXiv:2210.11401 (2022).
• M. Chalupnik, H. Melo, Y. Alexeev, A. Galda, Augmenting QAOA Ansatz with Multiparameter Problem-Independent Layer, 2022 IEEE QCE, 97 (2022).
• A. Kakkar, J. Larson, A. Galda, R. Shaydulin, Characterizing Error Mitigation by Symmetry Verification in QAOA, 2022 IEEE QCE, 635 (2022).
• K. Smith, G.S. Ravi, T. Alexander, N.T. Bronn, A. Carvalho, A. Cervera-Lierta, F.T. Chong, J.M. Chow, M. Cubeddu, A. Hashim, L. Jiang, O. Lanes, M.J. Otten, D.I. Schuster, P. Gokhale, N. Earnest, A. Galda,  Programming physical quantum systems with pulse-level control, Frontiers in Physics 10, 900099 (2022).
• A. Cervera-Lierta, M. Krenn, A. Aspuru-Guzik, A. Galda, Experimental high-dimensional Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entanglement with superconducting transmon qutrits, Physical Review Applied 17, 024062 (2022).
• I. MacCormack, C. Delaney, A. Galda, N. Aggarwal, P. Narang, Branching Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks, Physical Review Research 4, 013117 (2022).
• T.J. Maldonado, J.Flick, S. Krastanov, A. Galda, Error rate reduction of single-qubit gates via noise-aware decomposition into native gates, Nature Scientific Reports 12, 6379 (2022).
• I. MacCormack, A. Galda, A.L. Lyon, Simulating Large PEPs Tensor Networks on Small Quantum Devices, arXiv:2110.00507 (2021).
• A. Galda, M. Cubeddu, N. Kanazawa, P. Narang, N. Earnest-Noble,  Implementing a Ternary Decomposition of the Toffoli Gate on Fixed-Frequency Transmon Qutrits, arXiv:2109.00558 (2021).
• A. Galda, X. Lin, D.Lykov, Y. Alexeev, I. Safro, Transferability of QAOA parameters between random graphs, 2021 IEEE QCE, 171 (2021).
• R. Shaydulin, A. Galda, Error Mitigation for Deep Quantum Optimization Circuits by Leveraging Problem Symmetries, 2021 IEEE QCE, 291 (2021).
• C. Delaney, K. P. Seshadreesan, I. MacCormack, A. Galda, S. Guha, P. Narang, Demonstration of quantum advantage by a joint detection receiver for optical communications using quantum belief propagation on a trapped-ion device, arXiv:2102.13052 (2021).
• Z. B. Tan, A. Laitinen, N. S. Kirsanov, A. Galda, M. Haque, A. Savin, D. S. Golubev, V. M. Vinokur, G. B. Lesovik, P. J. Hakonen, Thermoelectric current in a graphene Cooper pair splitter, Nature Communications 12, 138 (2021).
• D. Lykov, R. Schutski, A. Galda, V. Vinokur, Y. Alexeev, Tensor Network Quantum Simulator With Step-Dependent Parallelization, arXiv:2012.12430 (2020).
• Yu. Tikhonov, S. Kondovych, J. Mangeri, M. Pavlenko, L. Baudry, A. Sené, A. Galda, S. Nakhmanson, O. Heinonen, A. Razumnaya, I. Luk’yanchuk & V.M. Vinokur, Controllable skyrmion chirality in ferroelectrics, Nature Scientific Reports 10, 8657 (2020).
• X. Zhang, A. Galda, X. Han, D. Jin, V.M. Vinokur, Broadband Nonreciprocity Enabled by Strong Coupling of Magnons and Microwave Photons Physical Review Applied 13, 044039 (2020).
• A. Galda, V.M. Vinokur, Exceptional points in classical spin dynamics, Nature Scientific Reports 9, 17484 (2019).
• A. Galda, V.M. Vinokur, Parity-time symmetry breaking in spin chains, Physical Review B 97, 201411(R) (2018).
• [Review] A.A. Varlamov, A. Galda, A. Glatz, Fluctuation spectroscopy: From Rayleigh-Jeans waves to Abrikosov vortex clusters, Reviews of Modern Physics 90, 015009 (2018).
• M. Lankhorst et al., Scaling universality at the dynamic vortex Mott transition, Physical Review B 97, 020504(R) (2018).
• A. Galda, V.M. Vinokur, Linear dynamics of classical spin as Möbius transformation, Nature Scientific Reports 7, 1168 (2017).
• L. Rademaker, V.M. Vinokur, A. Galda, Universality and critical behavior of the dynamical Mott transition in a system with long-range interactions, Nature Scientific Reports 7, 44044 (2017).
• A. Galda, V.M. Vinokur, Parity-time symmetry breaking in magnetic systems, Physical Review B 94, 020408(R) (2016).
• V. Tripathi, A. Galda, H. Barban, V.M. Vinokur, Parity-time symmetry-breaking mechanism of dynamic Mott transition in dissipative systems, Physical Review B 94, 041104(R) (2016).
• Glatz, A. Galda, A.A. Varlamov, Effect of fluctuations on the NMR relaxation beyond the Abrikosov vortex lattice, Physical Review B 92, 054513 (2015).
• A. Galda, A.S. Mel’nikov, V.M. Vinokur, Resonant tunneling of fluctuation Cooper pairs, Featured in DOE’s Science Highlights and Argonne’s Featured Stories, Nature Scientific Reports 5, 8315 (2015).
• V. Yurkevich, A. Galda, O.M. Yevtushenko, Igor V. Lerner, Duality of weak and strong scatterer in a Luttinger liquid coupled to massless bosons, Physical Review Letters 110, 136405 (2013).
• A. Galda, I.V. Yurkevich, Igor V. Lerner, Effect of electron-phonon coupling on transmission through Luttinger liquid hybridized with resonant level, Europhysics Letters 93, 17009 (2011).
• A. Galda, I.V. Yurkevich, Igor V. Lerner, Impurity Scattering in a Luttinger liquid with electron phonon coupling,  Featured as Editor’s Suggestion, Physical Review B 83, 041106(R) (2011).