Hello! My name is Savar, and I'm a computer science PhD student at UChicago with research interests in quantum computing and quantum complexity theory at the intersection of theoretical computer science and physics.
During my undergrad at Caltech, I did research in quantum many-body physics and quantum learning theory under Professors Nat Tantivasadakarn and Yu Tong, respectively. I did my senior thesis on SPAM-robust Lindbladian learning under the superivsion of Professors John Preskill and Yu Tong.
Prior to this, I have also participated in several computational biology projects under Professor Wideman at Arizona State University and Dr. Chaudhuri at Washington University in St Louis.
My research publications are shown below:
[7] Sinha SD (2026) Efficient and SPAM-Robust Ansatz-Free Lindbladian Learning. CaltechTHESIS (Senior Thesis). doi: 10.7907/hprr-fq68
[6] Sinha SD and Tong Y (2025) Improved Hamiltonian learning and sparsity testing through Bell sampling. arXiv (preprint). doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2509.07937
[5] Chauhan PS, Alahi I, Sinha SD, et al. (2024) Genomic and epigenomic analysis of plasma cell-free DNA identifies stemness features associated with worse survival in lethal prostate cancer. Clin Cancer Res 2024. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-24-1658
[4] Sinha SD, Wideman JG (2023) The persistent homology of mitochondrial ATP synthases. IScience, 26(5), 106700. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106700.
[3] Macher JN, Coots NL, Girard EB, Langerak A, Muñoz-Gómez SA, Sinha SD, Vos R, Wissels R, Gile G, Renema W, Wideman JG. (2023) Single-Cell Genomics Reveals the Divergent Mitochondrial Genomes of Retaria (Foraminifera and Radiolaria). MBio, 0(0), e00302-23. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00302-23.
[2] Singh RP, Poh Y-P, Sinha SD, Wideman JG. (2023) Evolutionary history of oxysterol binding proteins (OSBPs) reveals complex history of duplication and loss in animals and fungi. Contact. 2023;6. doi: 10.1177/25152564221150428.
[1] Záhonová K, Lax G, Sinha SD, Leonard G, Richards TA, Lukěs J, Wideman JG. (2021) Single-cell genomics unveils a canonical origin of the diverse mitochondrial genomes of euglenozoans. BMC Biology. 19: 103. doi: 10.1186/s12915-021-01035-y.