Papers
Classically-inspired Mixers for QAOA Beat Goemans-Williamson’s Max-Cut at Low Circuit Depths
In preparation to submit to Quantum journal Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
Bridging Classical and Quantum with SDP initialized warm-starts for QAOA Accepted to ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (2022) Joint with Majid Farhadi, Creston Herold, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
On the set of catenary degrees of finitely generated cancellative commutative monoids Accepted to International Journal of Algebra and Computation (2016) Joint with Christopher O’Neill, Vadim Ponomarenko, and Gautam Webb
Which dipole are you studying in lab? Accepted to European Journal of Physics (2016) Joint with P-M Binder and Callie K Crowder
Posters and Presentations
Invited Talk at Los Alamos National Laboratory (November 2022) Combinatorial Optimization in the Era of Quantum Computing Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
Invited Talk at Sandia National Laboratories (November 2022) Combinatorial Optimization in the Era of Quantum Computing Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
ACO Student Seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology (November 2022) Introduction to Quantum Computing and Its Role in Combinatorial Optimization Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
Workshop on Quantum Computing and Operations Research (October 2022) Poster: Improving QAOA via classical warm-starts Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
INFORMS 2022 Improving QAOA With Various Warm-Start Strategies Part of the Quantum Optimization session Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
INFORMS 2021 Improving Qaoa With Warm-start Initializations And Custom Mixers Part of the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum 1 session Joint with Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
MOPTA 2021 Improving QAOA with Warm-Start Initializations and Custom Mixers Part of the Quantum Optimization II session Joint with Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta
INFORMS 2020 Bridging Classical And Quantum With SDP Initialized Warm-starts For QAOA Part of the Quantum Inspired Optimization and Machine Learning session Joint with Majid Farhadi, Creston Herold, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta