Utkarsh

I am a graduate research student at the Center for Computational Natural Sciences and Bioinformatics (CCNSB) and Centre for Quantum Science and Technology (CQST), IIIT Hyderabad, advised by Professor Harjinder Singh. My research interests lie in the development of quantum algorithms and quantum software to solve problems related to natural sciences, optimization and machine learning for near-term and fault-tolerant quantum hardware.

I am currently working as a Quantum Scientist in the quantum algorithms research team at Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc, Canada, where I develop quantum algorithms for their quantum chemistry module in PennyLane. Previously, I was working as a quantum compute researcher at QpiAI, where I work on developing quantum, quantum-inspired algorithms and a full software stack for their quantum hardware, ASGP^TM.

I am also part of IBM Quantum Research Programme and a Qiskit Advocate, IBM. Along with this, I'm an active contributor to Qiskit community, and Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF) projects. I am currently working on developing my own visualization tool for analyzing parameterized quantum circuits called qLEET, that is supported by Unitary Fund.

In the past, I've worked with Professor Apoorva Patel at IISc, Bangalore, and Professor Prasanta K. Panigrahi at IISER Kolkata. The projects majorly focused on simulation, development and application of NISQ Algorithms. I've also worked in an experimental biophysics laboratory under the guidance of Professor Musti J. Swamy at the University of Hyderabad.

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• Our work on qubit routing using Monte Carlo tree search got selected for publication at Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2022.
• Presented a poster for our work on asymmetric surface code desgin at the Workshop on Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE-2021) organized by the 41st IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS-2021).
• Selected in QIntern, a summer internship program of the QWorld Association, hosted by the QResearch Department.
• Our work got featured in the NISQ Newsletter - Benchmarking, Software Tools, Compilation by NASA-USRA in June 2021.
• Featured in the Times of India for our research work on quantum chemistry calculations using quantum computers.
• Attended Quantum Incubator Bootcamp organized by Creative Destruction Lab, Toronto, Canada
• Our poster got accepted at Young Italian Quantum Information Science conference (YIQIS) 2020.
• Our poster got accepted at NQN Workshop on Quantum Programming in Theory, Experiment and classroom (QPTEC) 2020.
• Featured in the IBM’s Qiskit Medium blog for hosting Quantum Computing related events at IIIT-Hyderabad.
• Accepted into Quantum Incubator Stream program hosted by Creative Destructive Lab, Toronto.
• Attended Qiskit Global Summer School with labs session.
• Invited to present a talk and hold a tutorial session on Quantum Programming at IndiQ Hyderabad Session 2020.
• Selected to present our work on quantum-classical algorithms in CALDAM Indo-French Pre-Conference Forum School on Algorithms and Combinatorics (2020) at IIT-Hyderabad.
• Our poster got accepted at QIP 2020 conference at Shenzhen, China.
• Our work got featured in the NISQ Newsletter - Benchmarking, Software Tools, Compilation by NASA-USRA in September 2019.

• Awarded micro grant by Unitary Fund for developing a quantum open-source library called qLEET
• Awarded International Program Associateship (IPA) at Theoretical Quantum Physics Laboratory in RIKEN, Japan.
• Awarded National Talent Search (NTSE) Scholarship in 2012.
• Recipient of the Dean’s Award For Academic Excellence which is given to top 5% students of a batch.
• Recipient of the Dean’s Award For Excellence in Research which is given to the undergraduate students for their recognized research work and publications.
• Awarded MITACS Globalink Research Internship (2020). However this got cancelled due to pandemic. :(
• Won the Best Paper Award at the 3rd IEEE Conference on Communication and Information Award Technology (2019) at IIIT-Allahabad in the track "Computer and Software Systems".

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