Chinmay Nirkhe

Chinmay Nirkhe is a research staff scientist with IBM Quantum at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, primarily focusing on the intersection of computational complexity theory and quantum computation. Some of his research interests include error correction, hardness of approximation, and demonstrations of quantum/classical separations. His favorite open questions are the quantum PCP conjecture and whether QCMA equals QMA. He received his PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and his BS in Mathematics and Computer Science from Caltech.