Ankur Agrawal

Hi! Welcome to my personal site (always WIP). I am a Research Scientist at the AWS Center for Quantum Networking focused on developing the control hardware and software for rapid material characterization and manipulation of spin qubits embeded in diamond nano-photonic structures. Previously, I worked with superconducting qubit-cavity systems to build novel detectors at microwave frequencies for quantum sensing applications such as dark matter.

I grew up in Rajasthan, India before moving to Bombay (Mumbai) for my undergraduate studies. For my master’s thesis, I studied radiation damage caused by particles from collision events at CERN as they traversed the detector volume. Soon after, I moved to the US in 2016 to puruse a PhD at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Prof. David Schuster and Aaron Chou.