About me

I’m a Ph.D. student at the Systems Research Group, Technical University of Munich (TUM), supervised by Prof. Pramod Bhatotia. My research interests lie in quantum software systems, where I design and build the systems software infrastructure required to scale quantum computing from the NISQ era toward fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC).

This spans the full software stack: compiler frameworks, operating system mechanisms, and hardware-software co-design, as well as formal approaches to correctness and verification. I develop and leverage intermediate representations (IRs), instruction set architectures (ISAs), and cross-layer optimizations to bridge the gap between high-level quantum programs and the constraints of underlying quantum hardware. More recently, I have been investigating quantum error correction, with a focus on real-time decoding on classical accelerators such as FPGAs and GPUs.

Previously, I worked in the distributed systems area, specifically in distributed shared logs, hardware-assisted replication protocols, and the implementation of fast reads in asynchronous replication protocols.

Before joining TUM, I graduated from the Computer Science Department, University of Crete, Greece, where I worked on highly parallel data structures and cloud scheduling.

Please call me Manos. Emmanouil is the formal birth name that is never used in Greece.

Research Interests

Quantum Software Systems, Quantum Compilers, Operating Systems, HW-SW Co-design, Quantum Error Correction, FTQC, HPC, Distributed Systems

Hobbies & Interests

I really love cinema (I have watched more than 800 films), so follow me on Letterboxd if you have an account ;) Letterboxd profile. I also like photography, focusing on landscapes, nature, and architecture. Despite being a computer scientist, I am pretty active: I enjoy hiking (I’m proud of my recent achievement of hiking the Andes at 5000 meters altitude), swimming, lifting weights in the gym, and running.