Ideas in public

Writing & research

Essays on engineering, machine learning, cloud infrastructure, and scientific computing.

2023

A system design journey

Scaling a simple Go URL shortener into a distributed, highly available system on AWS.

2023

A primer on functional PyTorch

A practical introduction to the PyTorch functional API.

2022

Introduction to Physics-informed Neural Networks

Using neural networks to solve differential equations.

2021

Deploy a containerized application on AWS with Terraform

A step-by-step guide to service-oriented deployment and infrastructure as code.

Research record

Publications & patents

2024

Qadence: a differentiable interface for digital-analog programs

D. Seitz et al., including M. Dagrada · arXiv:2401.09915

2023

Framework for investigating events

D. dos Santos, M. Dagrada, E. Costante, A. Manzi · US Patent 11,818,146

2023

Cloud on-demand emulation of quantum dynamics with tensor networks

K. Bidzhiev et al., including M. Dagrada · arXiv:2302.05253

2022

Harmonic (Quantum) Neural Networks

A. Ghosh et al., including M. Dagrada · arXiv:2212.07462

2021

Leveraging Operational Technology and the Internet of Things to Attack Smart Buildings

D. dos Santos, M. Dagrada, E. Costante · arXiv:1912.02480

2020

TurboRVB: a many-body toolkit for ab initio electronic simulations by quantum Monte Carlo

K. Nakano et al., including M. Dagrada · arXiv:2002.07401

2019

Efficient communication overlap by runtimes collaboration

M. Sergent, M. Dagrada, G. Papaure · US Patent App. 16/215,633

2018

Efficient communication/computation overlap with MPI+OpenMP runtimes collaboration

M. Sergent et al., including M. Dagrada · Euro-Par 2018

2016

Improved quantum Monte Carlo simulations: from open to extended systems

M. Dagrada · PhD thesis

2016

Exact special twist method for quantum Monte Carlo simulations

M. Dagrada et al. · Physical Review B 94, 245108

2016

Competing collinear magnetic structures in superconducting FeSe by first principles quantum Monte Carlo calculations

B. Busemeyer et al., including M. Dagrada · Physical Review B 94, 035108

2015

Density Matrix Embedding scheme for optimal atomic basis set construction

S. Sorella, N. Devaux, M. Dagrada et al. · Journal of Chemical Physics 143, 244112

2014

Quantum Monte Carlo study of the protonated water dimer

M. Dagrada et al. · Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 10, 1980–1993

2012

Entanglement-assisted calibration of a photon number resolving detector

F. Piacentini et al., including M. Dagrada · QELS conference