Prabha Mandayam

Prof. Prabha Mandayam is from the department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Previously, she has been an Inspire faculty fellow at the Chennai Mathematical Institute and a Post-doctoral Fellow with the Optics and Quantum Information Group at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences. She obtained her PhD in Physics from the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech under the supervision of John Preskill.

Her research interests are in the area of quantum computing and quantum information theory. In particular, she is interested in quantum error correction, understanding the interplay between quantum foundations and quantum cryptography, and using quantum information as a tool to explore fundamental questions in theoretical physics .