I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. I am broadly interested in quantum algorithms, quantum simulation, Hamiltonian complexity and classical simulation of quantum many-body systems. My postdoc supervisor is David Gosset.

I have a PhD in physics from the University of New Mexico where I was fortunate to be advised by Rolando Somma.

Academic history

Before joining IQC, I did a brief postdoc at the Université de Sherbrooke in the group of David Poulin.

I got my PhD in 2019 from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, under the guidance of Rolando Somma. I was a member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) and also spent a year working at the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Graduate Research Assistant.

PhD dissertation - Quantum Algorithms with Applications to Simulating Physical Systems

During my PhD, I interned at Microsoft Quantum in Redmond, where I worked with Nathan Wiebe on variational quantum algorithms.

Further back

I graduated in 2013 from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune with a Bachelors and Masters degree.

I took an interest in relativity and high-energy physics back then. My first published paper is in theoretical astrophysics - a result of two great months spent at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in the group of Pankaj Joshi.

I had my first brush with quantum information and computation at IISER, thanks to a course taught by T. S. Mahesh. I ended up writing a Masters thesis on “Quantum measurements with post-selection”.