Siddharth Muthukrishnan

About

I'm a PhD candidate at Pitt HPS. I primarily work in philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of computer science. I'm also interested in early modern philosophy (especially Newton and Descartes), biomedical ethics, and metaethics. Earlier, I did a PhD in quantum computing theory, and I continue to find that field fascinating.

Education and Experience

PhD Candidate, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (2019-)
PhD Student, Philosophy, University of Southern Californian (2018-2019) [Transferred to Pitt HPS along with David Wallace.]
PhD, Physics, University of Southern California (2018)
Research Assistant, Computer Science, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (2010-2011)
BTech, Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India (2010)

Publications

Forthcoming

"Many Worlds as Anti-Conspiracy Theory: Locally and causally explaining a quantum world without finetuning", in Alyssa Ney (Ed.). Locality and the Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (forthcoming with Oxford University Press)
"Unpacking Black Hole Complementarity" in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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Physics

Muthukrishnan, Albash, Lidar, “Sensitivity of quantum speedup by quantum annealing to a noisy oracle”, Physical Review A 2019
Muthukrishnan, Lidar, “Quasiadiabatic Grover search via the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation”, Physical Review A 2017
Muthukrishnan, Albash, and Lidar, “Tunneling and speedup in quantum optimization for permutation-symmetric problems”, Physical Review X 2016
Das, Sharma, and Muthukrishnan, “On Some Special Cases of the Entropy Photon-Number Inequality”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2012
Sharma, Das, and Muthukrishnan, “Entropy power inequality for a family of discrete random variables”, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2011

Works in progress

Drafts available on request. Preprints coming soon.