Hi, I'm Kartik. I like cats, pizza, and thinking about how hard quantum many-body systems are to compute. I'm a Master's student in Computer Science at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), in Prof. Martin Kliesch's group 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 and spent a while on deep learning for computer vision, which turned into an ACCV 2024 paper.

In 2024 I moved over to quantum complexity. Most of that year went into independent work on quantum Hamiltonian complexity, mainly the quantum PCP conjecture and its hardness-of-approximation form, and later a collaboration with the Quantum Information Theory Group at Seoul National University's Research Institute of Mathematics. These days I work on quantum Hamiltonian complexity, quantum learning theory and quantum certification.