Research, industry labs, academic collaboration, policy work and community leadership across quantum AI and scientific computing.
Fractal Analytics · Jul 2025 — Present
India · Hybrid
Research across quantum machine learning, quantum reservoir computing, scientific machine learning, temporal learning and hybrid quantum-classical systems, including physics-informed forecasting, open-system identification, quantum control and AI-assisted quantum-system design.
Quantum Ecosystems Technology Council of India (QETCI) · Oct 2025 — Present
India · Hybrid
Researching India’s quantum-technology ecosystem across state capability mapping, industrial and academic value chains, enabling infrastructure, policy design, commercialization and evidence-backed recommendations.
IBM · Aug 2025 — Present
Remote
Member of the Qiskit Advocate community, contributing to the broader quantum-computing ecosystem and practitioner community.
QWorld · May 2026 — Present
Remote
Mentoring quantum-computing research projects, including QIntern 2026 work on quantum reservoir memory for continuous-time temporal graph learning and quantum-network optimization.
Purdue University — QSEI / CLAN Lab · Aug 2024 — Present
Remote collaboration
Ongoing research collaboration in quantum neuromorphic computing and quantum machine learning. The formal visiting-research period ran Aug 2024–Jun 2025; collaboration continues through manuscript development and new research discussions on quantum perceptrons, reservoir-style extensions and learning dynamics.
QWorld — QIntern 2025 · Jul 2025 — Aug 2025
Remote
Led research on Quantum Reservoir Computing for Sustainable Time-Series Forecasting in High-Energy Physics, emphasizing benchmarking, reproducibility and accuracy-resource trade-offs.
Fractal Analytics · Dec 2024 — Jun 2025
India · Hybrid
Prototyped and benchmarked quantum/classical machine-learning methods for scientific and temporal tasks, contributing to publication-oriented research in quantum ML and QRC before moving into the full-time Research Associate role.
Space Applications Centre (SAC), ISRO · Feb 2025 — Apr 2025
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Hybrid
Worked on a confidential quantum-secure communication project in a high-assurance research environment involving software architecture and quantum/post-quantum security. Sensitive implementation details are intentionally omitted.
Paanduv Applications · Oct 2024 — Dec 2024
Hybrid
Tested QuantPracar, contributing to software quality assurance, functional testing, bug identification, workflow validation, reporting and documentation.
Tech Mahindra — Maker’s Lab · Sep 2024 — Dec 2024
Pune, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid
Worked on quantum machine learning for satellite-image processing and geospatial applications, including feature extraction and classification connected to GPS, mapping and Earth-observation workflows.
Creed&Bear · Jun 2024 — Oct 2024
Hybrid / Dubai, UAE
Developed and benchmarked quantum-AI approaches for time-series forecasting, including Quantum LSTM, Quantum SVR and Quantum Reservoir Computing against classical and statistical baselines.
Indian Institute of Technology Madras — Department of Electrical Engineering · Jun 2024 — Jul 2024
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site
Under Prof. Anil Prabhakar, automated a knife-edge laser-beam characterization setup using Arduino, a stepper-motor stage, photodiode circuitry and PCB electronics; performed optical alignment and beam-profile measurements relevant to cavities and quantum optics.
CSIR — Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO) · Sep 2023 — Oct 2023
Chandigarh, India
Investigated machine-learning and gradient-based methods combined with computer-generated holography algorithms such as Gerchberg–Saxton for hologram generation from images.