Vardaan Mongia is a project postdoc at IIT Madras with Prof. Bijoy. After masters in physics 2017, he has worked in quantum computing algorithms with Prof. P.K. Panigrahi from IISER Kolkata.Before committing to a Ph.D. at PRL, he has also taught as an adhoc assistant professor and taught master’s students at a Government College. His Ph.D. work at PRL with Prof. R.P. Singh was involved in a quantum communication project with a focus on QRNGs on bulk optics. With Prof. Bijoy, he is working in the quantum photonics group and is responsible for the design, tapeout and characterizations of quantum photonic circuits in the line of our product research and manufacturing model..