Faculty

Chinmay Nirkhe is a faculty member in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and a member of the CS Theory and Quantum CS groups. Before UW, he was a research scientist with IBM Quantum. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley and his B.S. from Caltech.

Nirkhe is somewhere between a mathematician and a computer scientist. His research is at the intersection of complexity theory and quantum computation. In particular, he is interested in proving hardness-of-approximation results and lower bounds on the description complexity of quantum states.