Supervisor

Professor Antonios Varvitsiotis

Biography

I am a full-time PhD student under Prof Antonios, and my current research is focused on the intersection of game theory and quantum computing. I have always been interested in quantum algorithms and their ability to give us efficient solutions (although for a very specific set of problems), especially those that are able to inherently represent or exploit structures of said problems.

Education

• 2020-2024: MSc Physics from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus

Working experience

• 2024-2026: Research Staff at IIT Madras

Selected publications

• (pre-print) Advith Desu, Aryan Namboodiri, Anil Prabhakar et al. GPU-Accelerated Graph-Colored Simulated Annealing for Integer Factorization, 13 September 2026, [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10379044/v1]
• A. Desu and A. Prabhakar, “Hybrid Quantum Reservoir Computing for Predicting Binding Affinities,” 2025 Supercomputing India (SCI), Bangalore, India, 2025, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/SCI68648.2025.11333862.