Anand Natarajan

 

I am an Assistant Professor in EECS and CSAIL at MIT. Prior to starting as a faculty member, I was a postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. I obtained my PhD in Physics in 2018 at MIT, under the supervision of Aram Harrow.

Office: 32-G624
Email: first name and last initial at mit dot edu

“I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information.” - Elif Batuman, Either/Or

(Photo credit: Tony Jin)

Research Interests

My research is in theoretical quantum information. I am particularly interested in nonlocality (e.g. Bell inequalities and nonlocal games), quantum complexity theory (especially the power of quantum interactive proof systems), and semidefinite programming hierarchies. My favorite complexity classes are MIP* and QMA(2).

Students and postdocs

Current PhD students: Sunny (Zhiyang) He, Henry Ma, Sujit Rao, Agi Villanyi, Tina Zhang.
Current postdocs: Honghao Fu.

Teaching

“वाच्यतां समयोऽतीतः स्पष्टमग्रे भविष्यति । इति पाठयतां ग्रन्थे काठिन्यं कुत्र विद्यते ॥” - The Kaliviḍambanam of Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣitar

Publications and preprints

My papers are available on the arXiv.

Accessibility

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