Hi — I'm Kartik. I like cats, pizzas, and thinking hard about the computational nature of quantum many-body systems. I'm currently a Master's student in Computer Science at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), working in the group of Prof. Martin Kliesch at the Institute for Quantum Inspired and Quantum Optimization.

I hold a B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Goa (2019–2023). After graduating I joined IIT Delhi's Vision Lab, where I worked on deep learning problems in computer vision, leading to a publication at ACCV 2024.

In 2024 my interests shifted decisively toward quantum complexity. I did independent research in Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity with a focus on the quantum PCP conjecture and its hardness-of-approximation formulation — work that was warmly received by the community. I also collaborated with researchers at the Quantum Information Theory Group at Seoul National University's Research Institute of Mathematics. My research spans Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity, Quantum Learning Theory, and Quantum Certification.