I tweet about the math and theoretical cs I don't understand and urban transport. I am an assistant professor at @uw @uwcse.

Seattle, Wash.
Joined April 2018
Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
The #Seahawks have their new QB: It’s Sam Darnold. The former #Vikings starter is finalizing a deal with Seattle, per The Insiders. He gets a 3-years deal worth nearly $100M, taking the place of Geno Smith. Darnold has been the favorite ever since the trade.
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Definitely consider applying! This program is open to UGs at any college/univ — there is a stipend and room is covered! You can work with myself, @jerryzli and Andrea Coladangelo in @uwcse or many of our great colleagues across @UW !
📢Attention undergraduates! Applications are being accepted for the Quantum@UW summer REU program at @UW. Gain research experience in the exciting field of #quantum in this 10-week program co-led by #UWAllen and hosted by @UWQuantumX: quantumx.washington.edu/quan… #AcademicTwitter
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Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
📢Attention undergraduates! Applications are being accepted for the Quantum@UW summer REU program at @UW. Gain research experience in the exciting field of #quantum in this 10-week program co-led by #UWAllen and hosted by @UWQuantumX: quantumx.washington.edu/quan… #AcademicTwitter
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Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
A guess: The uncertainty in science funding in the US will -already- have a huge affect on PhD admissions for engineering schools this cycle, even before funding reductions hit (if they do). I expect historically low class sizes in CS PhD programs. Not good for US AI leadership.
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This is a sitting NYC City Councilmember encouraging people to commit crimes
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The CFP Championship game should be the Rose Bowl, always and forever. It is just too iconic to pass up
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I'm proposing a moratorium on using the Aaronson-Kuperberg oracle in any future quantum query separations. It is just too powerful and not pushing our query complexity research in the right direction!
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I'm guilty of it! See my search-to-decision result with Anand, Henry, Sujit and Sandy! But we need to do something else ...
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Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
I'm very excited to be giving a keynote talk at the @ClimateChangeAI 🌎 🌐 workshop at #NeurIPS2024 on Sunday. My talk, "Where methods meet impact in ML for environmental monitoring" is at 10am PST -- see the post below for information on how to watch the live stream for free!
We're already excited for our #NeurIPS2024 workshop this Sunday! Our program includes keynotes by @Hut_chin_son, @SashaMTL and @rolf_comma_e - and the whole workshop will be livestreamed for free on our website. Check out details & the schedule here: climatechange.ai/events/neur…
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Andrea Coladangelo, @jerryzli, and I are recruiting multiple PhD students to study quantum computing theory at the University of Washington (@UW, @uwcse)! Applications should be made through the CS department PhD app (deadline Dec 15): cs.washington.edu/academics/…
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Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
Excited to share this new paper with Jack O'Connor and @_nickspoon! We improve our ZK-PCP construction to cover all of NEXP (with exponential proofs), scale it to NP with polynomial proofs, and obtain O(1)-locality via composition--yielding a ZK analogue of the PCP theorem. 1/3
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Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
Commuting local Hamiltonians are used as a stepping stone for many of quantum’s big open questions, like finding qPCP’s and sampling Gibbs states. Despite this, we know almost nothing about them. In arxiv.org/abs/2410.10495, Woo and I develop some tools for analyzing them! 🧵
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Definitely 2005+ bias as I wasn't old enough/alive to remember seasons before then. So I only picked 32 players ... but these are the players I've really enjoyed watching
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Looking at my reviews as of recent, I’m definitely a reviewer 2 🥺
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Very very exciting to have @jerryzli join us at @UW!
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Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
Why do we even have a Second Amendment?
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We are looking for a new reading group book on an advanced quantum computation/complexity theory topic. Any suggestions?
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It’s time for Nancy Pelosi to make a call to Sonia Sotomayor.
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Chinmay Nirkhe retweeted
I'm only here for a minute – at Manhattan, NY
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