Niraj Kumar

Employment

• JPMorgan Chase & Co (United States) Executive Director, Head of Quantum Inspired Algorithms
  2025 - Present
• JPMorgan Chase and Co Vice President
  2022 - 2024
• Pasqal Senior Quantum Algorithms Developer
  2021 - 2022
• PayPal (United States) Quantum Algortihm Researcher
  2020 - 2021
• The University of Edinburgh Post Doctorate
  2019 - 2021

Education

• TELECOM ParisTech PhD
  2015 - 2018
• Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur M.Sc (Integrated)
  2009 - 2014

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (23)

• Characterizing privacy in quantum machine learning
  npj Quantum Information 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41534-025-01022-z
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• Certified randomness using a trapped-ion quantum processor
  Nature 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-08737-1
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• Des-q: a quantum algorithm to provably speedup retraining of decision trees
  Quantum 2025 DOI: 10.22331/q-2025-01-13-1588
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• Applications of certified randomness
  Nature Reviews Physics 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s42254-025-00845-1
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• Blind Quantum Machine Learning with Quantum Bipartite Correlator
  Physical Review Letters 2024 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.133.120602
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• Characterizing barren plateaus in quantum ansätze with the adjoint representation
  Nature Communications 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49910-w
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• Invited: Challenges and Opportunities of Quantum Optimization in Finance
  2024 DOI: 10.1145/3649329.3664193
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• Evidence of scaling advantage for the quantum approximate optimization algorithm on a classically intractable problem
  Science Advances 2024 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adm6761
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• Privacy-preserving quantum federated learning via gradient hiding
  Quantum Science and Technology 2024 DOI: 10.1088/2058-9565/ad40cc
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• Hardness of the maximum-independent-set problem on unit-disk graphs and prospects for quantum speedups
  Physical Review Research 2023 DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.5.043277
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