Recent news

August 2026

• Congratulations to my postdoc, Chen Bai (co-supervised with Atul Mantri), on accepting an Assistant Research Fellow position at Tsinghua University!

• Congratulations to Ankith Mohan and Alice Zheng, the second and third quantum PhD graduates from our department! 

April 2026 

•  I received an NSF CAREER award to conduct research on algorithms for learning noisy quantum states. 

March 2026 

•   A warm welcome to Jiaqi (Jimmy) Leng, the newest addition to our QuantumCS@VT team! 

January 2026 

•   I will serve on the program committee for QCrypt 2026.

May 2025 

• Congratulations to Akshay Bansal, the first quantum PhD graduate from our department! VTNews article 

April 2025 

•  My student Akshay Bansal received a Computer Science Best PhD Research Award. Congratulations, Akshay!

March 2025 

•   I received a 2025 College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.