Hello, I am
Adam Godel
Boston University Student
About Me
I am a sophomore student studying mathematics and computer science at Boston University. While I am interested in a multitude of topics within my major, my main interests are quantum computing and web development. I have worked on a handful of research projects for quantum computing companies as well as web projects for nonprofits. You can read more about my achievements below.
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My Positions
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Quantum Solutions Launchpad Fellow, Womanium
April 8th, 2025-Present
I am a Womanium QSL Fellow working on the "Quantum Benchmarking of Majorana Systems" project in collaboration with the US Naval Nuclear Laboratory. This several month fellowship involves working on a professional quantum computing project with a few other students and mentors aiming to produce a publication and open-source library by the end of the experience.
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Lead Software Engineer, Iperuranium
January 27th, 2025-Present
I am serving as lead software engineer for Iperuranium, a student-run startup working on making a social media app primarily aimed at venture capitalists. I oversee four software engineers working on frontend, backend, and database development, delegating tasks and reviewing their code.
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Director of Engineering, BU Hack4Impact
December 23rd, 2024-Present
I am co-leading BU Hack4Impact's Impact Program with Director of Product Ludovica Pujia, managing four teams of student interns working on web development projects. I focus primarily on the software development side, hiring software engineers to populate the four teams and advising them on the expectations and responsibilities of their roles.
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Junior Development Team Lead, BU Hack4Impact
September 3rd, 2024-Present
I am serving as a workshop lead for BU Hack4Impact's Junior Development Team. I instruct and manage weekly workshops covering web development and essential programming skills for students (primarily CS majors) aiming to establish a foothold in the field of software engineering. I lead the workshops introducing frontend development using React and databases using MongoDB.
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Course Assistant, CS112: Introduction to Computer Science 2
September 3rd, 2024-Present
I am serving as a course assistant for the second semester introductory computer science course at BU, which is taught in Java and focuses on data structures. I took the course in Fall 2023 and received an A. I help lead a lab section and hold office hours to assist students with completing assignments and understanding key concepts of the course.
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Lead Software Engineer, BU Hack4Impact
July 7th, 2024-December 23rd, 2024
I served as lead software engineer for one of BU Hack4Impact's Impact Teams, a student-led 501(c)(3) that develops software for nonprofits to meet their humanitarian needs. I worked to revamp the website of the BU Center for Gender, Sexuality & Activism from the ground up over the course of the fall semester, managing a software development team comprised of myself and a few other software engineers.
My Projects
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Directed Reading Program: Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
January 22nd–May 1st, 2025
I participated in the BU math department's directed reading program, where I met weekly with PhD student John Ivanhoe. Using John Conway's A Course in Functional Analysis and David Griffiths' Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, we built up a physical intuition for mathematical concepts such as the Fourier Transform through derivations of solutions for the Schrödinger equation and the uncertainty principle. We also looked at the quantum phase estimation algorithm. The meetings culminated in a 10 minute presentation to the BU math department at the end of the semester.
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YQuantum 2025: Travelers-Capgemini Challenge
April 12th-April 13th, 2025
I participated in YQuantum 2025, the annual Yale quantum computing hackathon, to investigate the viability of a recursive search maximum independent set algorithm for graph coloring and its applicability to risk minimization in insurance. We used the Los Angeles County Fire Hazard Zones database to simulate 20–200 acre zones with a certain wildfire severity level as graphs, creating an algorithmic approach that better ensures that insurance companies diversify their portfolios.
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iQuHACK 2025: Alice & Bob Challenge
January 31st-February 2nd, 2025
I won second place at iQuHACK 2025, the annual MIT quantum computing hackathon. Working with four other students from BU, I investigated the quantum physics of cat qubits, the qubit model used by Alice & Bob in hopes of reducing bit flip errors at the cost of only a small increase of phase flip errors. We put ourselves in the shoes of an Alice & Bob quantum engineer for 24 hours, working on modeling Wigner plots of concepts such as Zeno gates, quantum decoherence, and parametric optimizations.
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CGSA Website
August 25th-December 23rd, 2024
I worked on this project to revamp the website of the BU Center for Gender, Sexuality & Activism as lead software engineer for BU Hack4Impact. The website includes native forms and a blog section with an admin page where site admins can view form responses and make blog posts that are also automatically emailed to students in their newsletter. The site was made using React and NodeJS, and uses MongoDB, Netlify, and Heroku for hosting.
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Glued Trees
May 28th-June 26th, 2024
This project is the continuation of my winning project for QRISE 2024. I worked with Classiq, a quantum computing software company, to create a quantum circuit implementation for the glued trees algorithm that can run on real quantum hardware for qubit sizes too large to simulate. I created an algorithm that can run for an arbitrary number of qubits, as well as an educational website that introduces the problem and describes my implementation. The algorithm is featured as part of the Classiq library and documentation. I also wrote an article for Classiq describing the algorithm.
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Our Republic
May 12th-May 14th, 2024
This website is a resource that displays the Chronicling America database provided by the Library of Congress, with options to filter by state and LCCN. Additionally, you can submit your information at the bottom of the home page and it will be displayed in a table on the community page. This website was made as a technical assessment and is a formal demonstration of my web development skills, specifically both frontend and backend development using React and Node.js.
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Travel Inferno
April 2nd-April 19th, 2024
For my CC102 class, I created a fictional travel website for Dante's Inferno that contains information about all nine circles of Hell along with tongue-and-cheek tips about things to do or note there. This was my first major web development project, and is not meant to be any sort of professional or rigorously made website. It was a fun way to work on my HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills! The website was featured in the final issue of the BU Core newsletter for Spring 2024.
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QRISE 2024: Classiq Project
March 4th-April 12th, 2024
I was selected as a winner of QRISE 2024, the Quantum Research & Industry Skills Exchange. I worked with Katie Emerson, a first-year computer science student at Wellesley College, to create a quantum circuit implementation for the glued trees problem using coupled harmonic oscillators as described in this paper. We were able to create an implementation using the Classiq software development kit that works for up to 10 qubits efficiently, equivalent to 512 columns per tree. As a winner of the research exchange, I had the opportunity to present our results to Classiq on May 28th, 2024.
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iQuHACK 2024: QuEra Challenge
February 2nd-4th, 2024
I won second place at iQuHACK 2024, the annual MIT quantum computing hackathon. Working with four other students from Northeastern and Yale, I investigated the maximum independent set problem with vertices connecting edges up to three times the lattice constant in a square graph. We used Aquila, QuEra's 256-qubit quantum computer, along with Bloqade, QuEra's software development kit. I did most of the programming for the team, using both Julia to perform classical simulations and Python to interact with the quantum hardware.
My Classes
Fall 2025
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PY/CS536: Quantum Computing
Quantum physics as a powerful computational paradigm. Quantum bits (qubits), qubit operations and quantum gates, computation, and algorithms. Computational complexity classes, and efficiency of classical vs. quantum computers. Quantum Fourier transform and Shor's factorization algorithm. Physical implementation of quantum computation.
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CS351: Distributed Systems
Discusses fundamental concepts of distributed computing (logical clocks, causal order, snapshots, consensus, atomic commit), communication and synchronization primitives, concurrency control, task and data parallelism, data consistency, replication, and fault tolerance. Covers both theoretical skills as well as working/practical knowledge with programming assignments.
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LF442: Geographies of the Imagination: Writing (beyond) the Island
Approaches to real and imagined spaces in their literary representations. Emphasis on relation between cultural and political heritage and aesthetic forms. Discussion of themes such as exile, displacement, mobility, and empire in critical discourse. French, Francophone, and related traditions.
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CC221: Making the Modern World: Progress, Politics, and Economics
Applying careful readings of Western social, political, and economic thinkers between 1600-1900, the course asks: How did "society" emerge as a distinctive object of political engineering, normative discourse, and social scientific inquiry? And what economic transformations helped shape theories of justice and social contract?
Summer 2025
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EC497: Internship in Business/Economics Abroad
I will be interning in the field of IT in Paris. Apart from the internship, the course program also includes workshops, written reflections, and a final mock interview showcasing what I learned from the experience.
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AH356: Modern and Contemporary Art in Paris
Designed under the format of half visits and half in-class sessions, this course explores the history of "modernity" focusing on the principal art movements in Paris from 1850 to today, including painting, sculpture, photography, installations, and urbanism, in relation to the historical, economic, and sociocultural contexts of the time period, and its influence in other parts of the world.
As part of the BU Paris study abroad program from May 14th to July 12th, I am taking the following courses, which are taught in French.