Principal Investigator:  Rajveer Nehra

Dr. Nehra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst, with adjunct positions in the Department of Physics and Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences.

Dr. Nehra completed his doctoral studies in AMO physics at the University of Virginia, working with Prof. Pfister on developing and efficiently characterizing non-Gaussian resources for photonic quantum information science and technology.  Recognizing his dissertation work, he was honored with the Outstanding Graduate Research Award and the Allan Talbott Gwathmey Memorial Award. He got an integrated BS-MS degree from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali, India, with a thesis on quantum simulations of relativistic molecular Hamiltonians on an NMR quantum computer. Before UMass-Amherst, Dr. Nehra held a visiting research scientist position at the University of Tokyo and a postdoctoral position at Caltech. 

Email: rajveernehra-at-umass.edu

Office: Marcus 201 B

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