Rate My Professor Sumeet Khatri

Sumeet Khatri is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, a position he has held since 2024. He is also affiliated with the Virginia Tech Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Physics Department at Freie Universität Berlin from 2021 to 2024, working in the Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems under the supervision of Jens Eisert. Khatri received his Ph.D. in Physics from Louisiana State University in 2021, M.Sc. in Physics specializing in quantum information from the University of Waterloo in 2016, and B.Sc. in Mathematical Physics from the University of Waterloo in 2014.

His research focuses on quantum information theory, quantum computation including algorithms and learning theory, and quantum communication and networks. Specific interests encompass quantum error mitigation, barren plateaus in variational algorithms, entanglement distribution in quantum networks, reinforcement learning for quantum protocols, and fundamental limits of quantum channels. Khatri has published extensively in top journals, with key works including 'Exponentially tighter bounds on limitations of quantum error mitigation' (Nature Physics, 2024), 'Constant Overhead Entanglement Distillation via Scrambling' (Physical Review Letters, 2026), 'Quantum metrology in the finite-sample regime' (PRX Quantum, 2025), 'Reducing classical communication costs in multiplexed quantum repeaters using hardware-aware quasi-local policies' (Communications Physics, 2025), and 'Perturbative gadgets for gate-based quantum computing: Nonrecursive constructions without subspace restrictions' (Physical Review A, 2024). He coauthored the textbook 'Principles of Quantum Communication Theory: A Modern Approach' and his publications have accumulated 2,255 citations with an h-index of 19. Among his honors are the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship—Doctoral (2018–2021), Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2015–2016), and NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship—Master’s (2014–2015). Khatri serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering and has contributed to program committees for QTML 2025 and QCTiP 2024. He has given invited talks at IEEE QCE25, APS March Meeting 2024, and the VTQ Symposium 2024.