Ashutosh Kumar

About Ashutosh Kumar

Photonic Inc. promises a scalable distributed quantum architecture for fault tolerant quantum computing by employing highly efficient Silicon spin-photon interfaces. As a quantum algorithm developer, I am developing optimal fault-tolerant quantum algorithms for deployment on the Photonic Inc.’s quantum computer. In the past, I have worked on the interface of quantum computing and quantum chemistry, designing and implementing efficient and accurate methods for simulating molecular systems on quantum devices. During my postdocs at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Virginia Tech, I published six high quality scientific manuscripts on the development of quantum resource reduction techniques, quantum modeling of molecular excited states and response properties, evaluating the challenges in initial state preparations for strongly correlated molecular systems etc. In other works, I have also developed and implemented reduced-scaling approaches in the context of coupled-cluster theory to enable accurate simulations of large molecular systems and have contributed to several open-source quantum chemistry software packages, such as Psi4, Psi4Numpy, ORCA, MPQC etc.

Experience

1. Senior Quantum Applications Scientist

   QuEra Computing Inc.

   Sep 2025 — Present · Boston, MA, US

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Integrated Master of Science, Industrial Chemistry

  2008 — 2013

• Virginia Tech

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Chemistry

  2013 — 2018

Skills

• Object-Oriented Programming (Oop)
• Theoretical Chemistry
• Scientific Computing
• Quantum Chemistry
• Computational Chemistry