Vedangi Pathak

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ABOUT VEDANGI PATHAK

I am a researcher at IBM Quantum, working at the intersection of quantum algorithms engineering, hybrid quantum–classical methods, and hardware-aware applications. My work focuses on translating deep theoretical ideas into practical, benchmarkable quantum workflows, with an emphasis on quantum simulation of physical systems, quantum chemistry, optimization, and quantum machine learning. A central theme of my work is regime discovery: understanding how noise, system size, problem structure, and algorithmic choices jointly determine performance and scalability across application domains.In my current role, I collaborate closely with industry partners and application teams to translate theoretical ideas into feasible, scalable, and hardware-aware quantum workflows, benchmarked on real quantum processors and classical simulators. I completed my Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics at the University of British Columbia, where my research spanned many-body physics, topological superconductivity, strongly correlated systems, quantum materials, and superconducting qubits. My academic work resulted in multiple peer-reviewed publications and involved close collaboration with both theory and experimental groups. I am particularly motivated by problems involving electronic correlations in chemistry and many-body physics, especially where these features reveal scaling behavior, structural constraints, and fundamental limits of classical and quantum algorithms.