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Nitish Kumar Panigrahy

Assistant Professor

School of Computing

Background

Nitish Kumar Panigrahy is an assistant professor in the School of Computing at Binghamton University.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks. He earned his PhD degree in computer science at University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 2021.

Panigrahy’s research interests include modeling, optimization and performance evaluation of quantum information networks.

He has been active on the program committees of several conferences, such as IEEE QCE, IEEE GLOBECOM,and IEEE LCN conferences. His papers have received the IEEE Quantum Week'23 Best Paper Award (second place) and IEEE MASCOTS '18 Best Paper Runner-Up Award.

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Education

  • PhD: University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • MS: Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata

Research Interests

  • Quantum information systems
  • Performance modeling
  • Network science