Activities

Academic Service

  • External reviewer of the PhD thesis of Davide Rolino from the University of Pavia, Italy.
  • External examiner/member of the jury for the PhD viva of Raman Choudhary, on May 13, 2025, at MAP-i (Doctoral Programme in Computer Science), University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.
  • Co-organizer of Foundations of Quantum Computing (FQC) 2025, part of the Quantum Fringe 2025 Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
  • Program Committee member of Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2025, Varna, Bulgaria.
  • Editor at Quantum, the open journal for quantum science, since July 2024.
  • Program Committee member of the International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC 2024), at IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
  • Co-organizer of Foundations of Quantum Computing (FQC) 2024, at Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom.
  • Program Committee member of QCNC 2024, Quantum Theories and Experiments, in Kanazawa, Japan.
  • Program Committee member of Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2024, at Instituto de Ciencias de la Computación in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Co-organizer of Foundations of Quantum Computing (FQC) 2023, at Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom.
  • Program Committee member of Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2023, at Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris, France.
  • Program Committee member of Foundations of Physics 2023, at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom.
  • Program Committee member of QPL 2022, at the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
  • Advisor to the EDI (Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) team, BQIT:21, Bristol, United Kingdom.
  • Program Committee member of QPL 2021, at the University of Gdansk, Poland.
  • Co-organizer of Q-Turn 2020.
  • Program Committee member of QPL 2019, at Orange, California, USA.
  • Co-organizer of the Focussed Research Group meeting, “Towards Spacetime Entanglement Entropy for Interacting Theories”, at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff, Alberta, Canada, during March 31, 2019, to April 7, 2019.
  • Program Committee member of Q-Turn 2018 at Florianopolis, Brazil.
  • Co-organizer of Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, 2018, at Perimeter Institute, Canada.
  • Chair of the Quantum Foundations I session at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, 2018, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Co-organizer of Contextuality: Conceptual Issues, Operational Signatures, and Applications, 2017, at Perimeter Institute, Canada. 
  • Co-organizer of the Quantum Foundations seminar series at Perimeter Institute, Canada, September 2016 – August 2018.
  • Q+ seminars: Co-organizer of this series of international online seminars on quantum information and quantum foundations, founded by Matthew Leifer and Daniel Burgarth, from November 2014.
  • AQIS 2013, IMSc Chennai: Volunteered with the local organization of the 13th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference in Chennai, India.
  • Refereeing for Journals: Quantum, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Physical Review Research, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Communications in Mathematical Physics, New Journal of Physics, Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Quantum Information Processing, Optica, Entropy.
  • Refereeing for Conferences: Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL) 2017, 2018, 2019, Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2018, 2019, Asian Quantum Information Science (AQIS) 2018, Q-Turn 2018.

Academic Visits

  1. INRIA Grenoble, visiting Vilasini Venkatesh and Cyril Branciard, November 2025.
  2. Laboratoire d’Information Quantique (LIQ), Université libre de Bruxelles, visiting Stefano Pironio’s group, July/August 2025.
  3. International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies (ICTQT), Gdansk, Poland, visiting John Selby and Ana Belén Sainz, July 2025.
  4. Centre for Theoretical Physics PAS, Warsaw, Poland, visiting Michał Oszmaniec and Remigiusz Augusiak, July 2025.
  5. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, visiting Matty Hoban and Jonathan Barrett, June 2025.
  6. University of York, York, UK, visiting Matthew Pusey, Roger Colbeck, and Victoria Wright, June 2025.
  7. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, visiting Mina Doosti, June 2025.
  8. Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, visiting Ognyan Oreshkov, February 2025.
  9. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India, visiting Prabha Mandayam, January 2025.
  10. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India, visiting Manabendra N. Bera and Sandeep K. Goyal, January 2025.
  11. Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, visiting Frédéric Dupuis, September 2024.
  12. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, visiting Robert W. Spekkens, September 2024.
  13. Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, visiting Ognyan Oreshkov, July 2024.
  14. LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, visiting Damian Markham, July 2024.
  15. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, visiting Robert W. Spekkens, April-May 2024.
  16. Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, visiting Ognyan Oreshkov, April 2024.
  17. Quantum Software Lab (QSL), School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, visiting Mina Doosti, February 2024.
  18. Quantum and Linear-Optical Computation group (QLOC), International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Braga, Portugal, visiting Ernesto Galvão and Leonardo Novo, August 2023.
  19. ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Spain, visiting Antonio Acín and Victoria Wright, March 2023.
  20. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, visiting Andreas Winter, March 2023.
  21. Heriot-Watt University, UK, visiting Mehul Malik, February 2023.
  22. University of Edinburgh, UK, visiting Chris Heunen, February 2023.
  23. University of Oxford, UK, visiting Jonathan Barrett, February 2023.
  24. Imperial College London, UK, visiting Yasaman Yazdi, February 2023.
  25. Royal Holloway University of London, UK, visiting Farid Shahandeh, February 2023.
  26. CombAlgo team at LaBRI, Bordeaux, November  2023.
  27. Calcul Naturel (CANA) team at Laboratoire d’Informatique & Systèmes (LIS), Marseille, France, visiting Giuseppe Di Molfetta, October 2022.
  28. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India, visiting Sibasish Ghosh and Prabha Mandayam, September 2022.
  29. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON, Canada, visiting Robert Spekkens, June 2022.
  30. Quantum Lab of Fabio Sciarrino, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy, May 2022.
  31. University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, visiting Gemma de las Cuevas and Tomáš Gonda, March-April, 2022.
  32. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, visiting Ion Nechita, March 2022. 
  33. Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, visiting Guido Bacciagaluppi, February 2022.
  34. Institut Néel, Grenoble, France, visiting Cyril Branciard, November  2021.
  35. Laboratoire d’informatique de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, visiting Mehdi Mhalla and Alastair Abbott, November 2021.
  36. Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austria, visiting Ämin Baumeler, November 2021.
  37. LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, October 2021.
  38. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2021.
  39. Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India, October-December 2019.
  40. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada, September 2019.
  41. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, visiting Robert Raussendorf, April 2019.
  42. University of Massachusetts Boston, USA, visiting Christopher Fuchs, January 2019.
  43. University of Oxford, UK, visiting Jon Barrett and Matt Pusey, October 2018.
  44. University of York, York, UK, visiting Roger Colbeck, June 2018.
  45. University College London (UCL), London, UK, visiting Lorenzo Catani, June 2018.
  46. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, visiting Giulio Chiribella, June 2018.
  47. Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, visiting Jeffrey Bub, March 2018.
  48. Chapman University, Orange County, California, USA, visiting Matthew Leifer, March 2018.
  49. Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, India, visiting Sumati Surya, January 2018.
  50. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, visiting R. Vijayaraghavan, January 2018.
  51. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India, visiting Arvind, January 2018.
  52. Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India, visiting Sibasish Ghosh, December 2017.
  53. University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, visiting Fabio Costa, July 2017.
  54. Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, visiting Nicolas Brunner, June 2017.
  55. University of Turku, Turku, Finland, visiting Teiko Heinosaari, June 2017.
  56. Universitat Autonoma Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, visiting Andreas Winter, May 2017.
  57. The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain, visiting Matteo Lostaglio in Antonio Acin’s group, May 2017.
  58. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India, visiting Sibasish Ghosh, December 2016.
  59. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India, visiting R. Vijayaraghavan, December 2016.
  60. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, visiting Chris Heunen, June 2016.
  61. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada, as Visiting Graduate Fellow in the Fall terms of 2013-2015.
  62. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, visiting Chris Heunen, July 2015.

Outreach

  1. Mentor at the Reflect and Review sessions of the International Summer School for Young Physicists (ISSYP), Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, July 2018. 
  2. Role Model and volunteer at the LAUNCH Waterloo STEAM event at CIGI, Waterloo, Canada, May 2018, demonstrating simple science experiments and interacting with primary school to middle school students.
  3. Science Day, IMSc Chennai: Volunteer and Organizer of the Science Quiz at Open Day, IMSc Chennai, for school students and undergraduates from Chennai colleges, in 2012 and 2013. 
  4. ASK, science newsletter: A founding member and editor of a student science newsletter, ASK, at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
  5. Secretary of the IMSc Cultural Association (ICA), 2013-2016, at IMSc, Chennai.