Ashwin Nayak

Ashwin Nayak studied theoretical computer science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (B.Tech., 1995) and at University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D., 1999). Following this, he held post-doctoral positions at DIMACS Center (Rutgers University) and AT&T Labs-Research; Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology; and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley. He joined University of Waterloo in 2002, and was Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, during 2003-11.

Ashwin is an associate professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, a Scholar at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and a member of QuantumWorks, Canada's national research consortium on quantum information science.

Research Interests:

• Quantum Computation and Quantum Information; Computational Complexity; Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Degrees:

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley (1999)
• B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1995)

Awards & Honours:

• Discovery Accelerator Supplement, NSERC Canada, 2008
• Early Researcher Award, Province of Ontario, 2006
• Regents’ Fellowship and Earl C. Anthony Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1995
• Visiting Student Research fellowship, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, 1994
• Second Prize for academic excellence, IIT Kanpur, 1993
• Certificate of Merit, IIT Kanpur, 1992 and 1993

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