About Me

Hey, I’m Daris Idirene, an EECS engineer and occasional mathematician.

I’m an MSc student at EPFL, having trained in a rigorous French preparatory scientific program (CPGE) before that. My work sits at the intersection of computer architecture, hardware/software co-design, and quantum physics — the kind of place where you need to understand both the silicon and the math behind it.

What I Work On

Hardware / Software Co-Design

My flagship project, HWExplore, is an open-source HLS compiler that takes Julia algorithms and automatically synthesizes them into RISC-V hardware accelerators via LLVM IR. It targets edge AI and post-quantum cryptography workloads on the CV-X-IF coprocessor interface. This sits at the frontier of compiler theory, RTL design, and applied RISC-V architecture.

Quantum Hardware & Nanofabrication

I interned at Alice & Bob, one of the leading quantum computing startups working on cat-qubit hardware. I worked in a cleanroom environment, contributing to the nanofabrication pipeline for superconducting qubits, and developed inspection and measurement tooling used in the fabrication workflow.

Physics Simulation & HPC

I’ve built physics engines (Inertia), quantum solvers (split-operator method, Spectral Theorem proofs), and explored numerical methods across classical and quantum domains. I find joy in bridging rigorous mathematics with working code.

Systems & Tooling

From Rust CLI tools to Go financial data APIs, I like building things that are fast and correct. I’ve worked with LLVM, Verilator, Julia metaprogramming, and C++ test benches in my day-to-day.

Background

• MSc student at EPFL, international student
• Languages: Julia, C/C++, Rust, Go, Python, SystemVerilog
• Interests: Hardware/Software Co-Design, HPC, computer architecture, quantum computing

Beyond Engineering

On the creative side, I make 3D art in Blender and document my projects in writing. I also spent years in debate club, which is probably where the habit of over-explaining my reasoning in these posts comes from.

Outside of work, I’m a big rock music fan, generally into music in a broader sense, I play basketball, and I like pure maths for its own sake, independent of whatever I can build with it. If you want to know what I’ve been listening to lately, here’s my Spotify.

Let’s Connect

Open to conversations about hardware design, compilers, quantum systems, or anything technically interesting. Find me on GitHub, LinkedIn, or ResearchGate.

— Daris