Ashwin Nayak

Dr. Ashwin Nayak studied computer science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (B.Tech., 1995) and obtained his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley in 1999. After holding post-doctoral positions at DIMACS Center (Rutgers University and AT&T Labs-Research), and California Institute of Technology, he joined University of Waterloo in 2002. He was an associate faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics during 2003–11.

Ashwin's research primarily revolves around quantum information and computation, with an emphasis on algorithms, complexity, and communication. He continues to work more broadly on related topics in theoretical computer science.