Team

Research Interests:

• Certification of Quantum Computation
• Quantum Networks
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
• Measurement-based Quantum Computation
• Quantum Entanglement Theory
• Applications in Quantum Chemistry and NLP
• Google Scholar

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Studies and professional life

• Since 02.2022 I am a tenure track assistant professor in Quantum Computing at TU Darmstadt
• 09.2019 - 01.2022 I was a Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Dr. David Gross at the University of Cologne
• 01.2015 - 08.2019 I did PhD in theoretical Quantum Optics in the group of Prof. Dr. Otfried Gühne at the University of Siegen
• 09.2017 - 12.2017 a visiting researcher at the University of New Mexico, USA
• 08.2016 - 11.2016 a visiting researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
• 09.2014 - 01.2015 a lecturer at the computer science department of Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia
• 09.2013 - 09.2014 MSc in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, UK
• 09.2009 - 05.2013 BA in Computer Science and Mathematics at American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria
• 01.2012 - 06.2012 Exchange semester at Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA
• 09.2003 - 06.2009 Maths and Physics high school, Tbilisi, Georgia

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Talks and presentations:

• Spring R(h)ein Quantum School, Düsseldorf, March 24-28, 2025
  Invited tutorials: Quantum algorithms
• DPG Spring Meting, Bonn, March 2025
  Invited talk: Quantum System Quizzing
• QIP 2025, University of Duke, USA, (Prabhav Jain)
  Contributed talk: Communication Complexity Bounds from Information Causality
• 6th Workshop, Algebraic Structures in Quantum Computation, Hannover, February 17, 2025
  Invited talk: Sound and Efficient Quantum System Quizzing
• Quantum Computing Seminar at FZJ, October, 2025
  Invited talk: Optimal control and quantum device certification
• Vienna Quantum Foundations Conference (September 23-27, 2024)
  Invited talk: Implications of the Generalized Information Causality Principle
• Fachbereichskolloquium, Universität Konstanz, Germany, 10.07.2024
  Invited departmental colloquium: Certification of quantum computation, theory and experiment.
• PenteQost-24, Siegen, May.17, 2024
  Invited tutorials: Quantum Algorithms
• PRIF Tech Trend Lab panel, Frankfurt May. 2-3, 2024
  Invited talk + Panelist: Advances and limitations of current quantum technologies
• Quantum Information Workshop, Bochum, Germany Nov. 22, 2023
  Invited talk: Classical certification of quantum computation under dimension assumption
• Quantum Certification Conference (QUACC), Warsaw, Poland, Nov. 6-8, 2023
  Invited talk: Set of Quantum Correlations
• Colloquium at the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany Mar. 03, 2023
  Invited talk: Quantum correlations in quantum causal structures
• The interface between quantum and relativistic causality, foundations and practicalities, ETH, Sep. 12-16, 22
  Invited talk: Quantum Causal Compatibility Problem

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Awards and Grants:

• Prize of the Hans and Ria Messer Foundation, 2024
  More information
• A finalist for Grace Hopper Tech Awards, 2024,Tbilisi, Georgia
• Research scholarship from: der Freunde und Förderer der Universität Siegen e.V .2016-2018
• Nomination for outstanding scientist by Forbes Georgia 30 under 30, 2020.
• A presidential scholarship for studying abroad
  A graduate program at the University of Oxford, 2013.
• A presidential Medal -Class of 2013, American University in Bulgaria
  Awarded annually to one graduating senior.
• Bronze medal at International Young Physicists Tournament (China, Nankai University, Tianjin, 2009)