Quantum Usecase Zoo

Padmapriya Mohan

Policy Fellow, Quantum Ecosystems & Technology Council of India

Incoming DPhil, University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science (Oct 2026)

I’m a quantum engineer by training who likes working in the translation layer - in the space between the physics and the people who fund, govern, and deploy it. I studied quantum science and engineering, but I spend much of my time helping stakeholders in policy, governance, business, and civil society make sense of what quantum can and cannot do. I started cataloguing use cases in early 2025 while I was still an MSc student at TU Delft, as an exercise in examining what quantum can and cannot do.

Education

  • MSc, Quantum Information Science & Technology — TU Delft, 2025

Recognition

  • Graduate of the Year — TU Delft QIST, 2025
  • Inaugural AI Policy Fellow — Mila, Quebec AI Institute, 2025

Selected writing

  1. Master's thesisWehner Group, QuTech

    Investigated the quantum advantage of using entanglement in distributed coordination.

  2. Multidisciplinary projectIshihara Lab, QuTech–Fujitsu

    Helped design and build an optical setup for the spectroscopy and cryo-ODMR of spin qubits (SnV, NV).

  3. Junior researcherQMAI / Greplova group

    Co-designed a protocol with a neural-network subroutine to reconstruct noise channels in a superconducting processor.

  4. Bachelor internCQuICC, IIT Madras

    Studied ML and AI for quantum error correction, and helped build a reinforcement-learning algorithm to discover and benchmark error-correcting codes.

  1. Policy FellowQpiAI & QETCI

    Drafting recommendations to advance the development of quantum-computing hardware in India.

  2. Centre for Quantum & SocietyQuantum Delta NL

    Studied technosolutionism in the framing of quantum use cases.

  3. Inaugural AI Policy FellowMila

    Authored policy considerations at the quantum–AI intersection; presented at Mila's AI Policy Fellowship launch.

  4. Co-author, Intelligence Report 2024Open Quantum Institute, CERN

    Presented to academics, state ambassadors, UN members and industry at GESDA's Quantum Diplomacy Symposium.

  5. Co-author, Quantum Value Chain Report 2023QETCI

    Proposed a framework for value-chain analysis of India's quantum ecosystem; launched at the National Quantum S&T Symposium, New Delhi.

I'm looking for an industry partner where I can apply my technical training and translation skills to connect research, policy and strategy, and bring that real-world experience back into my doctoral work.

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