Jayakumar Vaithiyashankar

Dr. Jayakumar Vaithiyashankar is the founder and CEO of Anuthantra Pvt. Ltd. He also serves as an IBM Quantum Educator and an IBM Qiskit Advocate Mentor. He is actively building a quantum community in India and is an IBM Certified Associate Developer in Quantum Computation using Qiskit. With 15 years of experience in R&D and university-level lecturing, he is a Senior IEEE member actively participating in IEEE Quantum standards. To date, he has published over 15 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Additionally, he has been appointed as a technical paper reviewer for IEEE Quantum Conferences. He is also a SWAYAM NPTEL portal instructor for The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), which launched India's first undergraduate minor program in quantum technologies. Dr. Jayakumar has conducted over 100 quantum programs, including faculty development programs, Qiskit certification training, and awareness camps across India, the USA, Russia, and Armenia.