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
Research fellows
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Dr. Suraj
PhD, Indian Institute of Science (2024)
Graduate research assistants
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Aditya Tripathi
Graduate Student (ECE, Y1)
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Jaber Balalhabashi
Graduate student (MSE, Y1)
Undergraduate students
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Liam Beaudoin
Senior, ECE and Physics, UMass Amherst
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Josiah Dill
Junior, ECE, UMass Amherst
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Robert Kwolek
Junior, ECE, UMass Amherst
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Katie Schouten
Sophomore, Physics and Math UMass Amherst
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Nino Roshi
Freshman, ECE, UMass Amherst
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Benjamin Limrik
Freshman, Physics, UMass Amherst
Visitors
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Kazuki Hirota
Graduate Student University of Tokyo, Japan
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Hoang Oanh Vo
Sophomore (Physics and Math), Mount Holyoke College
Past group members:
Justin Zhao (June-Aug., 2024), Sophomore, ECE, UMass Amherst
Manthan Badbaria (Spring 2024, lab rotation), Graduate student, UMass Amherst
Grace Ferrell (Fall 2025, lab rotation), Graduate student, UMass Amherst