Krishanu Sankar

2022 to 2024 – Quantum Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services, Center for Quantum Computing (Pasadena, CA)

2019 to 2022 – Research Scientist, 1QB Information Technologies (Vancouver, BC)

2017 to 2019 – Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)

2012 to 2017 – Graduate Student, Mathematics Department, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)

Snakes and Ladders: Adapting the Surface Code to Defects, with Catherine Leroux et al, PRX Quantum, vol. 6 (2025)

Spatially parallel decoding for multi-qubit lattice surgery, with S. Lin, E. Peterson, and P. Sivarajah, Quantum Science and Technology, vol. 10 (3), (2025)

A Benchmarking Study of Quantum Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization, with Artur Scherer et al, npj Quantum Information, vol. 10 (64), (2024)

On the C_p-equivariant dual Steenrod algebra, with Dylan Wilson, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 150 (8), 3635-3647 (2021)

Equivariant Steinberg Summands, Homology, Homotopy and Applications, vol. 22 (2), (2020)

Equipopularity Classes of 132-Avoiding Permutations, with Lynn Chua, Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, vol. 21 (1), (2014)

Achievable Sets in Z^n, Forum Mathematicum 27 (2011)

Spring 2019 – Mathematical Proof (Math 220, UBC)

Fall 2018 – Differential Calculus for the Life Sciences (Math 102, UBC)

Spring 2018 – Mathematical Proof (Math 220, UBC)

Fall 2017 – Differential Calculus for the Life Sciences (Math 102, UBC)

Spring 2017 – Linear Algebra and Differential Equations (Math 21b, Harvard)

Fall 2015 – Integration, Series, and Differential Equations (Math 1b, Harvard)

Spring 2014 – Integration, Series, and Differential Equations (Math 1b, Harvard)

Winter 2025 to 2026 – Math Circles, Omega level (Math Potentials)

snakes-and-ladders: Attendant software implementation for the paper Snakes and Ladders.