About me


I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Chicago, supervised by William Fefferman.

Previously, from 2018 to 2020, I was a Master’s student at the University of Waterloo, under the brilliant supervision of John Watrous. I was also a part of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).

In another life, I was an undergraduate at Jadavpur University, India in the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, from 2014 to 2018.

My Erdos number is $3$.

Here is my curriculum vitae.


Research Interests

I have broad interests in quantum computing. Specific topics that I am interested in include quantum complexity theory, quantum algorithms, near-term quantum computation, and quantum cryptography. I am also interested in algorithms, complexity theory, and theoretical computer science more generally.


Outreach

I am a part of “bigyan”, a science outreach group that aims to popularize science in the Bengali language. Please feel free to message me on any social media platform or send me an email if you are interested in contributing to “bigyan” or discussing science outreach more generally.

News and Updates

2023

  • [Nov 2023] Paper on “Public-key pseudoentanglement and the hardness of learning ground state entanglement structure” and paper on “Effect of non-unital noise on random circuit sampling” accepted to QIP 2024!

  • [Nov 2023] Paper on “Quantum Pseudoentanglement” accepted to ITCS 2024!

  • [Nov 2023] Paper on “Public-key pseudoentanglement and the hardness of learning ground state entanglement structure” out on arXiv!

  • [Nov 2023] Paper on “Approximate t-designs in generic circuit architectures” out on arXiv!

  • [Oct 2023] Our work on “Complexity phase transitions generated by entanglement” is featured on Quanta Magazine!

  • [Sep 2023] Paper on “A little magic means a lot” out on arXiv!

  • [July 2023] Our work is featured on UChicago CS News!

  • [June 2023] Paper on “Effect of non-unital noise on random circuit sampling” out on arXiv!

  • [June 2023] Paper on “Complexity phase transitions generated by entanglement” accepted to Physical Review Letters!

2022

  • [Nov 2022] Paper on “Quantum Pseudoentanglement” accepted to QIP 2023!

2020

  • [Sep 2020] Joined the University of Chicago as a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. Awarded the Daniels Fellowship for being one of the strongest students of the incoming cohort.

  • [June 2020] Successfully defended my Master’s thesis. Link to dissertation and slides.
  • [Feb 2020] Paper on “Complexity limitations on one-turn quantum refereed games” uploaded to arXiv.

2019

2018

  • [Sep 2018] Joined the University of Waterloo as a Master’s student in Computer Science.