Welcome to my universe
Himanshu Sharma
Bridging quantum light-matter interaction and classical AI.
Actively researching across three groups - Nanophotonics, IITK, Photonic Devices, IITK, and Kyoto University's LLM Center - investigating Cavity-QED, Single-Photon Sources, and Mechanistic Interpretability.
Who Am I?
Physicist • Developer • Philosopher
I'm a third-year Physics major at IIT Kanpur driven by the ambition of building a fault-tolerant, practically useful Quantum Computer. Fascinated by the fundamental laws of the universe and computer systems, my research sits at their intersection, currently focusing on Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and the simulation of open quantum systems for information processing.
I have an insatiable desire to understand this world, its workings and its purpose; and wish to acquire as much knowledge about as many things possible. Beyond physics, my intellectual curiosity frequently spills over into Statistics, Machine Learning, Large Language Models and their interpretability.
When I'm not running quantum circuits or debugging neural networks, you'll likely find me actively debating social issues, or exploring the philosophies of Camus and Nietzsche while sipping on a cup of cappuccino.
Curriculum Vitae
A comprehensive exposition of my academic background, research publications, technical milestones, and professional journey.
Projects
Early Years: Circuits, Debate Floors & Social Work
Played around with electronics, broke hundreds of jumper wires and eventally built an Arduino based soil-moisture and weed-detection systems before fully understanding why or how they worked.
Ran school-wide MUN conferences as chair and host. Collected Best Delegate awards; more importantly, learned to argue for positions I didn't believe in :)
Led a social initiative helping integrate neurodivergent children into the mainstream society by working with NGOs, clinics, schools, hair salons, cafes etc.
Sustainable Design, Bioplastics & First Real Code
Designed sustainable bioplastic structures in Fusion 360, winning 3rd nationally at the ATL Marathon.
Trained with Tech Mahindra on go-to-market strategy and commercial frameworks. Briefly entertained the idea of becoming a founder; but academia won <3
Started exploring programming during COVID: Python, web architectures, the fundamentals. The beginning of building things that live inside computers.
Computational Neuroscience (AIM-SIRIUS)
Led an Indo-Russian team of 6 under Sirius Institute researchers to build a web platform for EEG signal analysis.
Engineered pipelines to clean EEG time-series streams, compute brain source coordinates, and construct functional graph maps of neural activity.
Used Python MNE to extract and visualize neural connectivity clusters. The brain, it turns out, is also just a graph problem.
F1 in Schools & The Quantum Spark
Design Engineer and Research Analyst for Team Quantum Racing: Indian National Champions, then 2022 F1 in Schools World Finalists in the UK. A lot of carbon fibre and lost sleep.
Ran CFD, FEM structural analysis, and physical wind tunnel tests. Optimized airflow geometries using genetic algorithms. Combined computation and physics in a way that felt truly powerful.
A DRDO article on Quantum Key Distribution landed at exactly the right moment. Everything since has been downstream of that paragraph.
IIT Kanpur & Technical Leadership
Enrolled in Physics at IIT Kanpur and centred my coursework on Quantum Computing, Quantum Optics, and Condensed Matter.
Completed IBM Quantum Challenge 2024 on Qiskit 1.0; started studying quantum algorithms and the QC God Book: Nielsen-Chuang
Actively involved in the Debating and Programming Clubs of the institute. Physics by day, programming and rhetoric by night :)
Quantum Research & AI Internals
Researched how LLMs represent and process information internally at the Kyoto University LLM Center. Asking "how does the model actually know?" turns out to be surprisingly hard.
Completed Qiskit Global Summer School 2025: quantum algorithms, chemistry simulation on real hardware. The gap between theory and reality due to decoherence is very real.
Joined the Nanophotonics Group at IITK as an undergrad researcher in Quantum Optics and Cavity QED. Now officially spending time thinking about single photons for a living.
Committed to Research
Built security assessment tools for lattice-based cryptographic vulnerabilities at the PnB Hackathon.
Actively working across three labs - Nanophotonics (IITK), Photonic Devices (IITK), and Kyoto University's LLM Center - sitting at the intersection of quantum light-matter interaction and classical AI. Actively working on Cavity-QED, Single Photon Sources, and Mechanistic Interpretabiliy
The Interests Manifold
tech
science
philosophy
Contact
Have an open problem to solve, a quantum simulation to debug, or want to collaborate? Connect with my nodes across the network.
System Status
Based in Delhi, India