Service

• Editor at Quantum journal
• Program Committee Member: Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC) 2025, Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning (QTML) 2025, and Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2026
• Reviewed/sub-reviewed for:
  • Conferences: Computational Complexity Conference (CCC), Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS), IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), Quantum Computing Theory in Practice (QCTIP), Quantum Error Correction (QEC), Quantum Information Processing (QIP), Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC)
  • Journals: Annals of Physics, Foundations of Physics, Nature Communications, Nature Physics, NPJ Quantum Information, Physical Review A, Physical Review Applied, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review Research, PRX, PRX Quantum, Quantum, Quantum Information & Computation, Quantum Information Processing, SciPost, Science Advances, Science Bulletin

Programs

• Statistical Methods and Mathematical Analysis for Quantum Information Science, Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation
• Summer Cluster on Quantum Computing, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
• Quantum Many-Body Dynamics and Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Systems, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)
• Towards Classically Intractable Quantum Simulations of Physics and Chemistry, KITP
• Quantum Complexity: Theory and Application, Dagstuhl seminar

Awards

• Chicago Quantum Creators Prize (2022)
• Dean’s Fellowship from the Graduate School, University of Maryland (2015).
• General Proficiency Medal from IIT Kanpur (2015).
• Academic Excellence Award from IIT Kanpur, (2010-2013)
• Gold medal from the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (2010).
• Fellow of the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (2010)

Talks

• Absence of barren plateaus in circuits with feedforward operations
  • The Power of Near-Term Quantum Experiments; Algorithms, Noise, and Quantum Advantage beyond NISQ
• A Phase Transition in Linear Cross-Entropy Benchmarking}
  • Quantum Summer Cluster Workshop, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
• Gaussian Boson Sampling and Random Matrix Theory
  • Shenzhen Conference on Random Matrix Theory and Applications
• Circuit complexity and classical simulation of Many-Body Localized Systems*
  • QIP 2023
• The complexity of simulating quantum dynamics
  • Quantum Creators Prize Symposium 2022, Chicago
• Noisy random circuits: properties and applications in quantum computing
  • Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2022
  • NSF Workshop on Quantum Advantage and Next Steps
• Am I living in the post-quantum-advantage era?
  • Noisy intermediate scale quantum advantage journal club, University of Maryland
  • UCL–Bristol visit day at AWS/IQIM Caltech
  • Summer School on Quantum Computing and Its Applications (QCA'22) at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology
• The importance of the spectral gap in estimating ground-state energies
  • Quantum Information Theory Seminar, University College London
  • JQI-QuICS-CMTC seminar
  • Q-Turn Workshop
  • QIP 2021
  • APS March Meeting 2021
• Quantum Computing: where we’re headed
  • Keynote speaker at Cognizance, an event held by the Research Society, Manipal Institute of Technology.

• Gaussian Boson Sampling and its complexity
  • Quantum information seminar at UT Austin
  • Dagstuhl workshop on Quantum Complexity: Theory and Application
• Implementing a fast unbounded quantum fanout gate using power-law interactions*
  • TQC 2021
• Optimal State Transfer and Entanglement Generation in Power-law Interacting Systems*
  • QIP 2021
• Complexity phase diagrams
  • CQuIC seminar, University of New Mexico
  • CS seminar at IQC, University of Waterloo
  • Seminar at Harvard Quantum Initiative
  • Seminar at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
  • Quantum seminar at Princeton
  • Quantum Machine Learning Journal Club at Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
• Sampling-complexity phase diagrams
  • IQI seminar, California Institute of Technology, 2019
• Complexity phase transition in interacting and long-range bosonic Hamiltonians
  • KITP Program on Out-of-equilibrium Dynamics and Quantum Information of Many-body Systems with Long-range Interactions
  • APS March Meeting, 2019
• Sampling from ground states of local Hamiltonians
  • Simons Institute, 2018
• Complexity of sampling as an order parameter
  • JQI-QuICS-CMTC seminar, 2017

*: Presented by co-author

Mentoring

• Served as mentor in the Caltech Accountability Partners Program, a program to advise undergraduate students through the graduate admissions process, in collaboration with Future Ignited
• Co-supervised (with Prof.~Alexey V.~Gorshkov) Nishad Maskara, a Caltech undergraduate, through the SURF program. Co-authored a paper “Complexity phase diagram for interacting and long-range bosonic Hamiltonians”
• Mentored incoming graduate students in the physics department at the University of Maryland
• Served as an Academic Mentor in the Counselling Service of IIT Kanpur, tutoring students on academic probation

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