https://amitav.net/tags/grant.html Recent content in Grant on Amitav Krishna Hugo -- 0.146.6 en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 04:30:00 +0000 https://amitav.net/posts/emergent-ventures-application.html Thu, 21 May 2026 04:30:00 +0000 https://amitav.net/posts/emergent-ventures-application.html <p>I recently applied to <a href="https://mercatuscenter.org/emergentventures">Emergent Ventures</a> for funding to continue my research on using neural networks to fix broken quantum measurements. Below is my full application.</p> <hr> <h2 id="describe-your-proposal-in-a-tweet">Describe your proposal in a tweet</h2> <p>I&rsquo;m using neural networks to fix broken quantum measurements. My work scaled prior results from 5 to 8 qubits, but I want to attack a bottleneck when scaling up the size of the models themselves with new representations.</p> <h2 id="about-me">About me</h2> <p>Quantum computers could transform drug discovery, materials science, epilepsy treatment, and many other fields that require high-fidelity simulations of the physical world. Their outputs are currently destroyed by noise, so I&rsquo;m training neural networks to mend them. I&rsquo;m Amitav, I&rsquo;m 14, and I build things before I know how to build them. I&rsquo;m also the youngest engineer at 8090 Solutions, Chamath&rsquo;s company, where I make their software development platform more autonomous.</p>