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Caltech's Ramkumar gets prestigious Churchill Scholarship
Ramkumar is the 24th Caltech student to receive the award since the Churchill Scholarship was first awarded in 1963.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Fri, 30, Jan 2026
- 03:21 EST
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Caltech’s fourth-year mathematics undergraduate, Akshar Ramkumar. / California Institute of Technology
Caltech’s fourth-year mathematics undergraduate, Akshar Ramkumar, has been selected as one of 16 recipients of the Churchill Scholarship, which offers funding for a one-year master's degree at the University of Cambridge.
During his time at Caltech, Ramkumar has conducted research in quantum computation and its intersection with theoretical mathematics.
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The summer following his second year, Ramkumar worked in the lab of John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics and Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair of the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, where he conducted theoretical research to establish bounds on the efficiency of then-novel quantum Gibbs sampling algorithms.
Ramkumar, who is the 24th Caltech student to receive the award since the Churchill Scholarship was first awarded in 1963, said he is honoured to have received the scholarship and told the institute,
"I am honored to be part of the Churchill community, and I am particularly excited to meet the other scholars and make some new friends. The opportunity to live in a new country and research with dedicated students and professors is a gift."
Ramkumar plans to pursue a master's degree at Cambridge in advanced computer science and work on problems in quantum complexity theory or algorithms.
Ramkumar worked at MIT last summer on a research project focused on characterizing the complexity of quantum error correction and exploring how it can be leveraged to build new cryptographic protocols.
The paper that resulted from this work is one of two papers to which Ramkumar has contributed that will be presented at the 2026 Quantum Information Processing Conference.
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