I am a PhD student in algorithms, combinatorics, and optimization (ACO) at the School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Swati Gupta and Dr. Mohit Singh. My research interests include combinatorial optimization, algorithmic fairness, and quantum computing.

Research updates

September 2023

Paper Warm-Started QAOA with Custom Mixers Provably Converges and Computationally Beats Goemans-Williamson’s Max-Cut at Low Circuit Depths has been published in Quantum. Find the paper here. Joint work with Reuben Tate, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta.

July 2023

Paper Which $L_p$ norm is the fairest? Approximations for fair facility location across all ‘p’ has been published in Economics and Computation (EC) 2023. Find the paper here. Joint work with Swati Gupta and Mohit Singh.

July 2022

Paper Generating Target Graph Couplings for QAOA from Native Quantum Hardware Couplings has been accepted for publication in Physical Review A. Find the paper here. Joint work with Joel Rajakumar, Bryan Gard, Creston Herold, and Swati Gupta.

May 2022

Poster on Reusing Combinatorial Structure: Faster Iterative Projections over Submodular Base Polytopes is runner-up at MIP 2022 poster competition. Find the paper here. Joint work with Hassan Mortagy and Swati Gupta.

February 2022

Paper New Proofs for the Disjunctive Rado Number of the Equations $x_1 - x_2 = a$ and $x_1 - x_2 = b$ has been published in Graphs and Combinatorics. Find the paper here. Joint work with A. Dileep and Amitabha Tripathi.

December 2021

Paper Reusing Combinatorial Structure: Faster Iterative Projections over Submodular Base Polytopes has been published in NeurIPS 2021. Find the paper here. Joint work with Hassan Mortagy and Swati Gupta.