Dr. Tiju Cherian John completed his BA from Mar Thoma College, Thiruvalla, Kerala, in 2009 and his MSc in mathematics from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research’s Centre for Applicable Mathematics (TIFR CAM), Bengaluru, in 2012. During his PhD, Dr. John worked on the “mathematical foundations of the infinite mode quantum Gaussian states” at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bengaluru. He successfully defended his PhD thesis in 2019 and currently is a postdoctoral fellow at ISI, Delhi.

Apart from securing admissions at some of the most sought-after mathematics programs in the country, Dr. John also cleared the GRE, TOEFL, CSIR-UGC-JRF, and GATE tests. He was awarded a travel grant from ISI in 2018 and from the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM) in 2019 to present his research at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and Université de Franche-Comté, France. He has also published research articles in reputed international journals.

The last three decades saw the development of a scientific area called “quantum information (QI) theory” which promised quantum computers, and many other vital technologies. As of today, human beings have built basic quantum computers. The manipulation of individual “quantum bits (qubits)” is central to QI. In the early 2000s, many scientists realized that instead of using qubits, we could use continuous-variable (CV) QI carriers. The CVQI promises to be more potent than qubits. In CVQI, the quantum Gaussian states (QGS) are the most commonly used and the easiest to prepare. The Fulbright project of Dr. John aims to produce a deeper understanding of the mathematical theory of QGS from its foundations to its current state-of-the-art shape.