Srikar is a graduate student at North Carolina State University, working under Dr. Frank Mueller and Dr. Jiajia Li on efficient quantum simulations using HPC techniques. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from PES University, Bangalore, India. He briefly worked as a Software Engineer at Walmart Labs before starting joining NC State for his graduate studies. Srikar's primary research interests lie at the intersection of High-Performance Computing and Quantum Simulation. But he is also interested in a variety of topics like Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Big Data and Performance Profiling.