Presentations

Invited Talk at Los Alamos National Laboratory (November 2022)
Combinatorial Optimization in the Era of Quantum Computing
Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta

Invited Talk at Sandia National Laboratories (November 2022)
Combinatorial Optimization in the Era of Quantum Computing
Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta

ACO Student Seminar at Georgia Institute of Technology (November 2022)
Introduction to Quantum Computing and Its Role in Combinatorial Optimization
Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta

Workshop on Quantum Computing and Operations Research (October 2022)
Poster: Improving QAOA via classical warm-starts
Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta

INFORMS 2022
Improving QAOA With Various Warm-Start Strategies
Part of the Quantum Optimization session
Joint with Jai Moondra, Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta

INFORMS 2021
Improving Qaoa With Warm-start Initializations And Custom Mixers
Part of the Optimization with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum 1 session
Joint with Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta

MOPTA 2021
Improving QAOA with Warm-Start Initializations and Custom Mixers
Part of the Quantum Optimization II session
Joint with Bryan Gard, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta

INFORMS 2020
Bridging Classical And Quantum With SDP Initialized Warm-starts For QAOA
Part of the Quantum Inspired Optimization and Machine Learning session
Joint with Majid Farhadi, Creston Herold, Greg Mohler, and Swati Gupta