Hi there! I am Snehal Raj, a CIFRE PhD Student at LIP6/CNRS - Sorbonne University and QC Ware, under Prof. Elham Kashefi (academic supervisor) & Dr. Brian Coyle (industry supervisor).
My thesis explores:
- Theoretical study of quantum & quantum-inspired algorithms
- Empirical validation of these algorithms
- Bridging quantum and classical machine learning
I graduated from the University of Oxford in 2022 with a Master’s in Advanced Computer Science. My thesis on improving simulations for Google’s supremacy circuits was supervised by Prof. Aleks Kissinger and is available here.
Before that, I was at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where I majored in Computer Science and Engineering. I worked on Quantum Query Complexity as part of my bachelor’s thesis and was supervised by Prof. Rajat Mittal.
In a past life, I was affiliated with Adobe Research working on LLMs.
Experience
Associate Staff Scientist
Research on real-world applications of Quantum Machine Learning in Industry.
Quantum Algorithms Consultant
Machine Learning and Quantum Computing.
Research Intern
Used AutoML to distill knowledge from LLMs and automatically create fine-tuned models for downstream tasks. Accepted at EMNLP 2021.
Machine Learning Consultant
Machine Learning.
Backend Developer
Education
PhD, Quantum Machine Learning
Research on theoretical foundations of Quantum Machine Learning.
MSc Computer Science (Distinction)
Thesis on Quantum Graphical Calculus for Tensor Network Contractions.
BTech Computer Science & Engineering
GPA: 9.52/10.0 | All India Rank 168. Thesis on Quantum Complexity Theory.
News
- Nov 2025 Our paper “Training-Efficient Density Quantum Machine Learning” published in npj Quantum Information! Read it here.
- Aug 2025 Our paper “Bayesian Quantum Orthogonal Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection” published at IEEE Quantum Week 2025! Read it here.
- Nov 2024 Presented “Training-Efficient Density Quantum Machine Learning” at QTML 2024 in Melbourne! Watch the talk and read the paper.
- Jun 2024 Started my CIFRE PhD at Sorbonne University / LIP6 and QC Ware, working on quantum & quantum-inspired machine learning!
Selected Publications
2025
- npj QI
- arXivarXiv preprint arXiv:2502.06916, 2025
- arXivarXiv preprint arXiv:2504.18103, 2025
2023
- Quantum
2021
- EMNLPIn Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021