Working with Professor Ryan O’Donnell on research in quantum computing

1. Developed an algorithm for quantum approximate counting using only non-adaptive Grover iterations, that achieves optimal query complexity. Paper accepted at STACS 2021, where I gave a talk about this work. Presented a poster about it at QIP 2021.

2. Found a short proof of Gao's Quantum Union Bound and Gentle Sequential Measurement theorems. Paper was accepted and presented at SOSA 2022. Also presented the work at CMU's Meeting of the Minds undergraduate research symposium. Paper available on arXiv.

Project Title: High-throughput robotic system for wafer-scale characterization of photonic waveguides

Mentor: Professor Maysam Chamanzar

• Developed software tools in Python to automate the characterization of optical waveguides for use in bi-directional neural probes

• Created a program to automatically detect intensity loss in a micron-scale optical waveguide from image scans along the length of the waveguide, using image stitching and computer vision techniques

• Integrated a micro-manipulator, motor and camera hardware into a responsive user interface with low latency for real-time characterization

• Presented Research posters at the Next Manufacturing research expo in July 2018 and Carnegie Mellon Biomedical Engineering Forum in September 2018

• Co-authored a conference paper that appeared in CLEO 2019

• First author of a paper at EMBC 2021 and co-author of another paper

Teaching Assistant for Algorithm Design and Analysis (15-451/651) Spring 2020 course

• Held weekly office hours, recitations

• Graded homework, exams

• Helped to write homework solutions

• Teaching assistant for Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science (15-251) Spring 2019 course

• Held weekly office hours to review lecture content and clarify homework

• Graded homework and examinations

• Conducted weekly recitation to reinforce key concepts and provide supplemental instruction