Sanjaya Lohani, Ph.D.

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Sanjaya Lohani, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Affiliate Faculty of O’Donnel Data Science and Research Institute

Office Location: Junkins Building #315

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Education

  • M.S., Ph.D. -- Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
  • B.S., M.S. -- Physics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Biography

Dr. Lohani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering, 天美传媒. Prior to 天美传媒, Dr. Lohani was a Co-design 天美传媒 for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) fellow research engineer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Dr. Lohani also worked as a fellow researcher at the IBM-HBCU Quantum 天美传媒 in Washington DC, and as a postdoctoral AI researcher in the Quantum Information and Non-linear Group at Tulane University. 

Dr. Lohani has been recognized with the prestigious "Elizabeth Land Parks and Franklin Parks" fellowship for developing a computer artificial intelligence technique for free-space quantum and classical optical communications. Additionally, he has received awards such as the Incubic-Milton Chang Award, Emil Wolf Outstanding Finalist, and the Materials Computation 天美传媒 (MCC) Award.

Dr. Lohani’s research group is dedicated to developing innovative and impactful solutions across a wide spectrum of exciting and flourishing fields of quantum science and engineering, including artificial intelligence, quantum computation and control, quantum sensing, communication and networking, and cutting-edge quantum technologies.   

Honors and Awards

  • Won Brookhaven National Lab’s Research Seed Award Competition for Quantum Information Applications
  • Co-design 天美传媒 for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) fellow
  • Member – IOP Science
  • IBM-HBCU Quantum 天美传媒 fellow
  • Stipend from the Tensorflow – Google
  • Elizabeth Land Parks and Franklin Parks Fellowship
  • Incubic-Milton Chang Award
  • Materials Computation 天美传媒 (MCC) Award 
  • Emil Wolf Outstanding Finalist Award
  • GSSA Travel Awards
  • SSE Dean’s Office Travel Awards – Tulane University
  • Honorable Mention Received at SSE Research Day
     

Research

  • Open Quantum Systems – Quantum Network and Communication, Quantum Sensing and Tomography
  • Quantum Computing and Control - Quantum High Performance Computing, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Machine Learning  
  • Neuromorphic Computing, Quantum Embedding, Diffractive AI, AI-on-Chips
     

Recent Publications

  • Lohani, S., Lukens, J.M., Davis, A.A., Khannejad, A., Regmi, S., Jones, D.E., Glasser, R.T., Searles, T.A. and Kirby, B.T., 2023. Demonstration of machine-learning-enhanced Bayesian quantum state estimation. New Journal of Physics, 25(8), p.083009.

    Lohani, S., Lukens, J.M., Glasser, R.T., Searles, T.A. and Kirby, B.T., 2022. Data-centric machine learning in quantum information science. Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 3(4), p.04LT01.
    Lohani, S., Lukens, J.M., Jones, D.E., Searles, T.A., Glasser, R.T. and Kirby, B.T., 2021. Improving application performance with biased distributions of quantum states. Physical Review Research, 3(4), p.043145.

    Bhusal, N., Lohani, S., You, C., Hong, M., Fabre, J., Zhao, P., Knutson, E.M., Glasser, R.T. and Magaña鈥怢oaiza, O.S., 2021. Spatial mode correction of single photons using machine learning. Advanced Quantum Technologies, 4(3), p.2000103.

    Lohani, S., Searles, T.A., Kirby, B.T. and Glasser, R.T., 2021. On the experimental feasibility of quantum state reconstruction via machine learning. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, 2, pp.1-10.
     

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