Long term PROJECTS:

1. "Feasibility study of a practical Realization of a protocol for semi-counterfactual quantum key distribution (QKD)" -- sponsored by Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Govt of India (Jan 2018--)
2. “Computational speedup in quantum mechanics and generalized probabilistic theories” -- sponsored by Dept of Science and Technology - SERB project number (Mar, 2017 --)
3. “A Dialog across Traditions: Modern science and ancient insights on reality”, (together with Prof Sisir Roy, NIAS, Bangalore and Prof Debajyoti Gangopadhyay, VBU, Hazaribag), sponsored by the Indian Council for Philosophical Research (ICPR), Delhi (symposium: Oct 25--27, 2016)
4. "Entanglement, nonlocality and superluminal signaling in deterministic and indeterministic extensions of quantum mechanics"  -- sponsored by Dept. of Science and Technology (DST) project number SR/S2/LOP-02/2012 (Mar 2012 -- Mar 2016).

Short term PROJECTS:

I list various Masters / undergrad reading or research projects I have guided or am guiding:

1. Paritosh Kapadia (PES University, Bangalore, Karnataka, India) May-July 2017. Topic: A comparison between the classical Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and the Quantum Fourier transform (QFT) and application of QFT in factoring
2. Deepankar Sarmah (IISER-Kolkatal) May-July, 2017 Topic: On appriximating universal quantum computing
3. Swadhin Agrawal (IISER-Bhopal) May-July, 2017 Topic: On appriximating universal quantum computing
4. Koshy George (Amrita University, Kollam, Kerala, India) Jan-Jun 2017 Topic: On the reality of the quantum state: a Review of ψ-ontology theorems
5. Mr Shesha Gopal (IISER-Kolkata), May 16, 2016  Topic: Facet inequalities for quantum nonlocality
6. Mr Avinash Bhargav (Central University, Hyderabad) May 16, 2016 Topic: Convex optimization and semidefinite programming
7. Mr A. Animesh (June 10 to Nov 9, 2016). Topic: Towards a device-independent semi-counterfactual quantum cryptography protocol
8. Mr E. Pradeep Kumar (June 10 to Oct 10, 2016). Topic: Quantum correlations and neutrino oscillations.
9. Mr Shrikant Utagi, Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, Summer internship (Dec 10, 2014 to Feb 9, 2015):(Topic: Quantum indistinguishability: some foundational considerations)
10. Mr. Pavan Iyengar of University of Pune. RRI Visiting Student internship (May 22, 2012 to May 21, 2013): (Topic: Quantifying quantumness via commutators: An application to quantum walks.).
11. Ms. Preeti Yadav of St. Stephen's College, RRI Visiting Student internship (Aug 21, 2012 to Aug 21, 2013): (Topic: On the multipartite extension of the Goldenberg-Vaidman quantum key distribution protocol).
12. Mr. Rox Ranjeeth of National College, Bangalore, REAP scholarship of Nehru Planetarium, Bangalore (Aug 20, 2011 to Aug 21, 2012): (Topic: Why quantum no-cloning is not violated in a laser.).
13. Mr. X. Bangarusai of IISER Kolkata, RRI Summer internship (May 10 to July 10, 2012): (Topic:Optimal cloning from no-signaling).
14. Ms. Ashima Arora of IISER Mohali. RRI Summer internship (May 20 to July 20, 2012): (Topic:The role of entanglement in quantum computational speed-up).
15. Mr. Siddhartha Das of IISER Pune, RRI Summer internship (May 10 to July 10, 2012): (Topic:Roy-Singh inequalities).
16. Mr Atul Mantri (IISER Mohali), (RRI Summer internship (Dec 15, 2011 to Jan 30, 2012): Topic: Geometry and classification of nonlocal boxes)
17. Mr. Subramanya Hegde of Yuvraj College, Mysore (RRI Summer internship (Aug 16, 2011 to Jan 30, 2012): Topic: Quantum Turing machines)
18. Mr Reet Chowdhury (NIT Tiruchirappalli) June 1 to July 4, 2011. Topic: Quantum Kolmogorov complexity
19. Mr. Srinatha Narayanaswamy, PPISR Long-term internship (April 6, 2010 to Sep 6, 2011): (Topic: The Quantum cryptographic switch)
20. Mr. Balaji Rao, PPISR Long-term internship (May 10, 2010 to May 11, 2011): (Topic:Noisy quantum walk).