Ayush Asthana
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the department of chemistry, Virginia Tech with Prof. Nick Mayhall. My research interests span quantum chemistry and quantum computing. In my research, I have been working on the foundations of quantum computing applications aimed towards advancing molecular sciences. On a day to day basis, I am developing pulse-level variational quantum algorithms for molecular simulations and methods for simulation of molecular excited state properties on a quantum computer.
Previously, in graduate school at Johns Hopkins, I was working on relativistic spin-orbit coupled-cluster method development and automatic expression generation for unitary coupled-cluster based methods along with applications in chemistry. I was advised by Prof. Lan Cheng during my Ph.D.
I completed my bachelors and masters dual degree at IIT Kanpur in India. I worked on my masters thesis in the lab of Prof. Debashis Mukherjee on multi-reference problem in chemistry.