Vir Bulchandani

Vir Bulchandani

Postdoctoral Researcher, Princeton University

Vir B. Bulchandani is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. He obtained a BA in Mathematics and an MMath from the University of Cambridge in 2015, before receiving a PhD in Physics from UC Berkeley in 2020, where his thesis work won the Jackson C. Koo award in Condensed Matter.

His research program blends ideas from many-body quantum physics, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics and mathematics to propose new theories and applications for quantum devices. His current research interests include nonlocal games, measured random quantum circuits and ground-state approximation algorithms.

Program Visits

Summer Cluster on Quantum Computing, Summer 2023, Visiting Scientist
Fields
Quantum many-body physics, quantum information theory