Ági Villányi

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Contact agivilla @ mit.edu

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I am a quantum complexity theorist (in training) in the Theory of Computation group at MIT CSAIL. I am very fortunate to be advised by Anand Natarajan. I’ve been at MIT since 2017 and earned my B.S. in 2021 (course 6-2, renamed as 6-5 as of 2025) and M.S. in 2024 in EECS. I am grateful to be supported by the NSF GRFP (2024-2027), Doc Bedard (2023-2024) and McWhorter (2021-2022) fellowships.

Research Interests

Currently, I am working on delegating quantum computations classically. Specifically, the problem that disturbs my slumber is that of information theoretic verification of BQP. In the past I’ve worked on quantum cryptography, quantum algorithms, and quantum programming languages. A full list of my publications is available on google scholar.

Teaching

Since January 2021 I’ve been a lead instructor for 6.S089/MIT Quantum Winter School over IAP. In Fall 2022, I was a TA for 6.2400: Introduction to Quantum Systems Engineering. From 2021-2022 I was an instructor for Qubit x Qubit, a quantum course for high school students organized by The Coding School and in 2021 I was an instructor for a quantum summer school organized by Qbraid.