Rodrigo Gastón Cortiñas
Rodrigo G. Cortiñas is a Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI devoted to realizing quantum simulation, quantum error correction, and elucidating the foundational resources underlying quantum information. A specialist in theory and experimental application of quantum mechanics, he pioneered laser trapping techniques for Rydberg atoms, bosonic error corrected qubits, parametric processes in superconducting circuits, and quantum simulation of chemistry. Prior to Google, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Quantum Institute and earned his Ph.D. in atomic physics from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction
Cameron Maxfield
Guifre Vidal
Bob Buckley
Jonathan Waltz
Christopher Wood
Reza Molavi
John Mark Kreikebaum
Rajeev Acharya
David Sobel
Abeer Vaishnav
Ali Hadjikhani
Ryuho Kudo
Wendy Leung
Brett Buchea
Ningfeng Zhu
Shirin Montazeri
Jamie Yao
Bicheng Ying
Eric Mascot
Lenny Fuste
Zhenjie Zou
Matt Lloyd
Clarke Smith
Kris Ottosson
Emma Ropes
Felix Borjans
Rebecca Potter
Sean Harrington
Jeremy Hilton
David Enriquez
Stephen Heslin
Paula Heu
Daniel Lundahl
Elliot Young
Alex Crook
Fedor Kostritsa
Roberto Rodriguez
Chia Ni
Kim Ming Lau
Priyanka Thiruraman
Martin Damyanov
Logan Oas
Dmitry Abanin
Oscar Higgott
Aaron Shorter
Steve Habegger
Aniket Maiti
Ryan Kaufman
Valerie Ehimhen
Sayra Alcaraz
Marcos Flores
Elizabeth Rossi
Aria Shahingohar
Dario Rosenstock
Travis Weidel
Steven Waltman
Kristi Wong
Murat Sarihan
Arun Kumar
Vladimir Shvarts
Matt Reagor
Alfredo Torres
Michael Qian
Anthony Megrant
Charles Neill
Christopher Hudspeth
Michael Hamilton
Bill Huggins
Laura De Lorenzo
Tan Ha
Ran Zhang
Dar Gilboa
Nicholas Bushnell
Sherman Peek
David Rhodes
Leigh Martin
Mike Shearn
Vlad Kurilovich
David Browne
Spencer Small
Brian Ballard
Will Oliver
Lior Ella
Orion Pritchard
Josh Cogan
Rachel Resnick
Dmitri Maslov
Jose Guerrero
Paul Masih Das
Theodore White
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Nikita Astrakhantsev
Can Knaut
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Yaxing Zhang
Aaron Szasz
Alexander Lill
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Xiaoxuan Jin
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Arpit Ranadive
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Agnetta Cleland
Maddie Taylor
Dogan Timucin
Ross Alcaraz
Hui Kang
Johannes Bausch
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Robert Gasca
Kevin Satzinger
Meghan Voorhees
Silas Chen
Laleh Beni
Andrew Dunsworth
Jamal Busnaina
Pavel Laptev
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Shannon Wang
Paul Donohoe
Paul Conner
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Tim Burger
ILYA Drozdov
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Austin Fowler
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Francisco Heras
Hung-Shen Chang
Michael Broughton
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Juan Atalaya
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Alex Sztein
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Pavol Juhas
Bryan Cochrane
Murray Ich Nguyen
Ashley Maloney
Will Livingston
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Jeremiah Ford
Christopher Garrick
Sayan Das
David Peterson
Eifu Tomita
Suhas Ganjam
Reno Hiltermann
Dylan Bowers
Bryce Kobrin
Yu Chen
Dan Riley
Leon Brill
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Mike Hucka
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Sebastian Molina
Tiano Lange-Dei
Georg Aigeldinger
Ashley Huff
Wing Li
ZLATKO MINEV
Monica Hansen
Sebastian Schroeder
Walt Askew
Dietrich Graumann
Elias Portoles
Stijn de Graaf
Matt Cockrell
Harold Cook
Masaya Fukami
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Ed Gonzales
Robert Geiger
Amir Karamlou
Loick Le Guevel
Ebrahim Forati
Justin Vargas
Doug Thor
Joel Grebel
Lucia De Rose
LILY LI
Dave Landhuis
Emma Rosenfeld
Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang
Kenny Lee
Shaun Jevons
Ping Yeh
Amira Abbas
Kunal Arya
Henry Schurkus
Hector Bates
Ganesh Ramachandran
Sergey Vdovichev
Brayden Ware
Max Schaefer
Cheng Xing
Brandon Langley
Anthony Cabrera
Michel Devoret
Cody Jones
Vlad Sivak
Mert Torunbalci
Ben Kueffler
Chaitali Joshi
Raja Gosula
Joy Lee
Alexander Korotkov
Thomas Edlich
Aditya Locharla
Nathan Lacroix
George Sterling
Hao Tran
Kostyantyn Kechedzhi
Trond Andersen
Alexandre Bourassa
Aaron Lunt
Alan Fung
Alex Pizzuto
Salvatore Mandra
Alex Greene
Vitali Kutsko
Kannan Sankaragomathi
Sofia Springer
Vinicius Ferreira
Raymond Orosco
Nature (2026)
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The promise of fault-tolerant quantum computing is challenged by environmental drift that relentlessly degrades the quality of quantum operations. The contemporary solution, halting the entire quantum computation for recalibration, is unsustainable for the long runtimes of the future algorithms \cite{reiher2017elucidating,gidney2025factor}. We address this challenge by unifying calibration with computation, granting the quantum error correction process \cite{ryan2021realization,krinner2022realizing,sivak2023real,acharya2024quantum, bluvstein2024logical,bluvstein2025architectural,lacroix2025scaling} a dual role: its error detection events are not only used to correct the logical quantum state, but are also repurposed as a learning signal, teaching a reinforcement learning (RL) agent \cite{silver2017mastering,mnih2015human,levine2016end, shalev2016safe,ouyang2022training} to continuously steer the physical control parameters and stabilize the quantum system during the computation. We experimentally demonstrate this framework on a Willow superconducting processor, improving the logical stability of the surface code 3.5-fold against injected drift. By synthesizing our full suite of technological advances, including RL fine-tuning of the entire system and near-optimal decoding \cite{senior2025scalable, beni2025tesseract}, we achieve record performance of the surface and color codes, with average logical error per cycle of $\varepsilon_L=7.7\times10^{-4}$ and $\varepsilon_L=8.2\times10^{-3}$ respectively. Simulations of surface codes up to distance-15 with tens of thousands control parameters confirm the scalability of our RL framework, revealing an optimization speed that is independent of the system size. This work thus enables a new paradigm: a quantum computer that learns to self-improve directly from its errors and never stops computing.
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