Honorable Mention 2025 / Digital Solutions / Softwares

QFit - interactive device characterization for superconducting circuits

  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Softwares / Digital Solutions, User Experience Design / UI & UX Design
  • Company
    Freelancer
  • Lead
    Tianying Lyu
  • Team
    Tianpu Zhao, Danyang Chen, Jens Koch
  • Client
    Koch Research Group at Northwestern University
  • Credits
    Experimental data provided by Schuster Lab
  • Video

QFit is an analysis software for physicists to characterize superconducting quantum computing devices. Progress in this field depends on scalable, reliable hardware, and characterization is a critical, often tedious step. It requires identifying quantum features in experimental data and building accurate physical models. QFit streamlines this process: with just a few lines of code, users can import models, visualize and calibrate data, extract features, interactively refine fits, and apply advanced algorithms—cutting setup time by 90%.