Dr. Ruhee D'Cunha

Education

• Int. M.Sc. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2016)
• Ph.D. Virginia Tech (2021)

Professional Experience

Ruhee D’Cunha received her Integrated Masters degree in Chemistry from IIT Bombay in 2016, where she did undergraduate research using molecular dynamics to model biological systems. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Virginia Tech in 2021, where her main research focus was on the development of methods for the accurate and efficient prediction of molecular properties. She currently has an interest in the development of quantum chemistry algorithms on quantum computers.

Publications

• Non-unitary Variational Quantum Eigensolver with the Localized Active Space Method and Cost Mitigation
• Fragment-Based Initialization for Quantum Subspace Methods
• The Localized Active Space Method with Unitary Selective Coupled Cluster
• State Preparation in Quantum Algorithms for Fragment-Based Quantum Chemistry