Petr Ivashkov

About me

I am a first-year PhD student in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

I am broadly interested in quantum computing and machine learning.

Before joining MIT, I spent six months at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, where I had the chance to work with Bernhard Schölkopf on JEPA-style world models. Before that, I was fortunate to work with Susanne F. Yelin at Harvard on my master’s thesis on learning open quantum-system dynamics, while completing my MSc at ETH Zürich. I completed my BSc in Physics at TUM.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2026 — Present
PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
ETH Zurich
2023 — 2026
MSc Quantum Engineering
Technical University of Munich
2020 — 2023
BSc Physics

Selected Papers

[*] equal contribution · see my Google Scholar for the full list

Sensorimotor World Models: Perception for Action via Inverse Dynamics

Petr Ivashkov, Randall Balestriero, Bernhard Schölkopf

arXiv (2026)

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Learning Arbitrary Lindbladians with Quantum Error Correction

Nikita Romanov, Petr Ivashkov, Weiyuan Gong, Ishaan Kannan, Andi Gu, Hong‑Ye Hu, Susanne F. Yelin

arXiv (2026)

[paper]
Ansatz-Free Learning of Lindbladian Dynamics In Situ

Petr Ivashkov*, Nikita Romanov*, Weiyuan Gong, Andi Gu, Hong‑Ye Hu, Susanne F. Yelin

arXiv (2026)

[paper] [poster]
QKAN: Quantum Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks with Applications in Machine Learning and Multivariate State Preparation

Petr Ivashkov, Po‑Wei Huang, Kelvin Koor, Lirandë Pira, Patrick Rebentrost

npj Quantum Information 12, 73 (2026)

[paper] [slides] [poster]
From Quantum-Enhanced to Quantum-Inspired Monte Carlo

Johannes Christmann*, Petr Ivashkov*, Mattia Chiurco, Guglielmo Mazzola

Phys. Rev. A 111, 042615 (2025)

[paper] [code]
High-Fidelity, Multiqubit Generalized Measurements with Dynamic Circuits

Petr Ivashkov, Gideon Uchehara, Liang Jiang, Derek S. Wang, Alireza Seif

PRX Quantum 5, 030315 (2024)

[paper] [talk] [code] [poster]