Navya is a graduate research assistant at the Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics and the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has been working with Prof. Zohreh Davoudi since 2022. Her research interests include the development of quantum computing protocols for quantum field theories and the application of classical tensor network methods for studying quantum many-body physics. Previously, she was a research assistant at the Condensed Matter Theory Center studying one-dimensional topological superconductors. She completed her master's in theoretical physics at the Perimeter Institute with a thesis exploring quantum information scrambling in black holes.
