Pragya Katyayan
IBM Qiskit Advocate | PhD (CS)
Research Interests:
Quantum Computing
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
If a task is not challenging, it's not worth attempting.
Quick Highlights
Quantum Experience:
Qiskit Global Summer School, 2022 by IBM Quantum (Theory + Lab).
Qiskit Global Summer School, 2021 by IBM Quantum (Theory + Lab).
IBM Quantum Challenge - Summer 2021 (May 20-27, 2021).
IBM Quantum Challenge - Fall 2020 (Nov 9-30, 2020).
Accepted into IBM Quantum and The Coding School's 2020-2021 Introduction to Quantum Computing course (Oct. 2020 - May 2020)
Quantum Week of Fun, Cambridge Quantum Computing. Resources.
Summer School on Machine Learning and Big Data with Quantum Computing SMBQ – 2020, University of Porto, Portugal. Resources: Day-1; Day-2(i), Day-2(ii)
QOSF Mentorship Program (applied and submitted the screening Task-2 using Qiskit; status: not selected)
Qiskit India Challenge (Hackathon) by IBM Quantum. Experience. Resources.
Qiskit Global Summer School - 2020 by IBM Quantum (Theory + Lab). Experience. Resources
Quantum Achievements:
Advanced Badge for successfully completing IBM Quantum Challenge-Spring 2023.
Qiskit Advocate (August 1, 2022)
IBM Certified Associate Developer - Quantum Computation using Qiskit v0.2X - June 01, 2022.
Quantum Excellence Certificate for completing graded lab activities during Qiskit Global Summer School 2021, IBM Quantum.
Earned 'Foundational' badge for completing 2/5 challenges in IBM Quantum Challenge-Summer 2021.
Completed The Coding School's 2020-2021 Introduction to Quantum Computing with 100% performance in both Sem 1 and Sem 2.
Beginner friendly Blog on how to start in Quantum Computing.
Earned 'Intermediate' badge for completing 4/5 challenges in IBM Quantum Challenge-Fall 2020.
Technical report on Quantum Computing published in Open Source for you, - December 2020.
Tutorial-blog: How to find correct angle values for Parametrized Quantum U3 gates and Controlled U3 gates using Qiskit
Qiskit India Challenge: Final Scores: Week-1: 36/37; Week-2: 80%, 31st position out of 123 teams on the leaderboard (Total participating teams: 724).
Tutorial-blog: How to find correct angle values of Parametrized Quantum gates using Qiskit
Invited Talk on 'Introduction to Quantum Computing' with hands-on using Qiskit, organized by R-Ladies, New Delhi.
Quantum Excellence Certificate for achieving 100% score in graded lab activities during Qiskit Global Summer School 2020, IBM Quantum.
Technical report on Quantum Computing published in Open Source for you, - July 2020.
Technical article on QML published in CSI Communications, - June 2020.
Featured
Certification
Oct 2020 - May 2021: Completed QNT100-Introduction to Quantum Computing course by The Coding School and IBM Quantum with 100% in both semesters.
#QiskitGSS
Received Certificate of Quantum Excellence from IBM Quantum for securing 100% in the lab exercises at the QGSS-2021
Special Mentions
December 2020: Featured in the official Qiskit recap video for #IBMQChallenge (Fall 2020)
IndiQ's Quantum Quiz Night
Placed 3rd in fun-filled Quantum Quiz Night organized by IndiQ on December 18, 2020.
Special Mentions
September 2020: Featured in the official Qiskit video for completing Qiskit India Challenge