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I am a CS PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin where I am fortunate to be advised by Scott Aaronson. I am generously supported by a Texas Quantum Institute Fellowship for the 2026-2028 academic year.

Before that I studied Mathematics and Computer Science from 2021-2025 at the same institution under the Turing Scholars Honors Program.

Curriculum Vitae

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Graduate Research

Sep 2026: Ryan Anselm, MD, Dar Gilboa, Sabee Grewal. Optimal and Verifiable Quantum Advantages in Communication Complexity

arXiv:2610.05585

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Undergraduate Research

April 2025: Undergraduate Honors Thesis: Peaked Boson Sampling: towards efficiently verifiable and NISQ-able quantum advantage

Thesis Poster Slides Code

(Best poster award)

Jun 2024: George Tsoukalas, Jasper Lee, John Jennings, Jimmy Xin, MD, Michael Jennings, Amitayush Thakur, Swarat Chaudhuri. PutnamBench: Evaluating Neural Theorem-Provers on the Putnam Mathematical Competition

NeurIPS 2024 ICML 2024 Code

(Best paper award)

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Projects

Apr 2024: Formal Verification of QEC

Manuscript Code

Dec 2023: IFML Retrieval Augmented Generation Models

Manuscript

Jun 2022: Quantum State Tomography Experiments on PBS

Poster

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