
Makrand Sinha
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Makrand Sinha is an Assistant Professor in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research is in the area of theoretical computer science, in particular, in the foundations of quantum and classical computation and optimization. In a previous life, he was a Simons-Berkeley postdoctoral fellow at the Simons Institute at the University of California at Berkeley and a postdoctoral researcher at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD in 2018 from the University of Washington.