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Assistant Professor · Computer Science · Virginia Tech

Atul Mantri

Curriculum Vitae

Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech · 2160F Torgersen Hall, 620 Drillfield Dr., Blacksburg, VA 24061
atulmantri@vt.edu · +1 (540) 231-1172 · www.atulmantri.com

Education

Aug '23 – Present
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Virginia Tech
Jan '23 – Jan '25
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Fellow, Southwest Virginia
Jan '20 – Jul '23
Research Associate, University of Maryland, College Park (QuICS)
Feb '19 – Dec '19
Research Associate, University of Edinburgh
Jan – Feb 2018
Visiting Researcher, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Apr – Jun 2017
Visiting Researcher, University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris
Aug '14 – Feb '19
Ph.D. in Quantum Computing, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), National University of Singapore
May–Jul '14 & '13
Summer Research Intern, Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), NUS
Aug '09 – May '14
B.S.–M.S. Dual Degree, Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali

Doctoral & Master's Theses

Doctoral
Secure Delegated Quantum Computing, advised by Prof. Joseph Fitzsimons (SUTD & CQT, NUS)

Protocols for information-theoretically secure delegation of quantum computation, and the role of interaction in client–server settings.

Master's
Study of Magnetic Traps and Radio Frequency Dressed State Potentials, advised by Prof. Mandip Singh (IISER Mohali)

The RF dressed-state potential for Bose–Einstein condensation, and its practical implications for atom interferometry.

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships

2020
Outstanding Graduate Research Award, SUTD FIRST Industry Workshop
2014 – 2019
President's Graduate Fellowship, Singapore
2009
Inspire Fellowship, Department of Science and Technology, India

Preprints, Peer-Reviewed Articles, and Book Chapters

Reverse chronological. Google Scholar citations (2026): 736, h-index 12.

  1. EFI Pairs Without One-Way Puzzles: Oracle Separations from Communication Complexity

    A. Mantri

    arXiv:2609.11901, 2026

  2. Oracle Separations in the Fourier Hierarchy

    A. Mantri

    arXiv:2609.11830, 2026

  3. The Quantum Internet (Technical Version)

    P. P. Rohde, Z. Huang, Y. Ouyang, H.-L. Huang, Z.-D. Su, S. Devitt, R. Ramakrishnan, A. Mantri, S.-H. Tan, N. Liu, et al.

    arXiv:2501.12107, 2025

  4. Security of Key-Alternating Ciphers: Quantum Lower Bounds and Quantum Walk Attacks

    C. Bai, M. Esmaili, A. Mantri

    arXiv:2412.05026, 2024

  5. Lattice-Based Quantum Advantage from Rotated Measurements

    Y. Alnawakhtha, A. Mantri, C. A. Miller, D. Wang

    Quantum, vol. 8, p. 1399, 2024 (IF = 6.770)

  6. Verifiable blind quantum computing with trapped ions and single photons

    P. Drmota, D. P. Nadlinger, D. Main, B. C. Nichol, E. M. Ainley, D. Leichtle, A. Mantri, E. Kashefi, R. Srinivas, G. Araneda, C. J. Ballance, D. M. Lucas

    Physical Review Letters, vol. 132, no. 15, p. 150604, 2024 (IF = 9.206) — selected for PRL's inaugural Collection of the Year

  7. Towards a unified quantum protocol framework: Classification, implementation, and use cases

    S. Singh, M. Doosti, N. Mathur, M. Delavar, A. Mantri, H. Ollivier, E. Kashefi

    arXiv:2310.12780, 2023

  8. Optimizing quantum dots for quantum cryptography and blind quantum computing

    M. Vyvlecka, M. Bozzio, Y. M. Cosacchi, C. Nawrath, S.-E. Lerchbaumer, A. Mantri, T. Seidelmann, J. C. Loredo, S. L. Portalupi, V. M. Axt, P. Michler, P. Walther

    Proc. SPIE PC12243, Photonics for Quantum 2022, PC1224311, 2022

  9. The Quantum Internet: The Second Quantum Revolution

    Edited by Peter Rohde, with contributions incl. A. Mantri

    Cambridge University Press, 2021

  10. Secure Quantum Two-Party Computation: Impossibility and Constructions

    M. Ciampi, A. Cojocaru, E. Kashefi, A. Mantri

    arXiv:2010.07925, 2020

  11. Security Limitations of Classical-Client Delegated Quantum Computing

    C. Badertscher, A. Cojocaru, L. Colisson, E. Kashefi, D. Leichtle, A. Mantri, P. Wallden

    Advances in Cryptology — ASIACRYPT 2020, LNCS vol. 12492, Springer

  12. A note on blind contact tracing at scale with applications to the COVID-19 pandemic

    J. K. Fitzsimons, A. Mantri, R. Pisarczyk, T. Rainforth, Z. Zhao

    ARES '20: Proc. 15th Intl. Conf. on Availability, Reliability and Security, Article 92, 2020

  13. The Quantum Protocol Zoo Manuscript

    A. Mantri, et al.

    2019

  14. Resource-efficient verification of quantum computing using Serfling's bound

    Y. Takeuchi, A. Mantri, T. Morimae, A. Mizutani, J. F. Fitzsimons

    npj Quantum Information, 5(1):27, 2019 (IF = 9.206)

  15. Capacity estimation and verification of quantum channels with arbitrarily correlated errors

    C. Pfister, M. A. Rol, A. Mantri, M. Tomamichel, S. Wehner

    Nature Communications, 9(1):27, 2018 (IF = 12.353)

  16. Flow ambiguity: A path towards classically driven blind quantum computation

    A. Mantri, T. F. Demarie, N. C. Menicucci, J. F. Fitzsimons

    Physical Review X, 7(3):031004, 2017 (IF = 14.385)

  17. Universality of quantum computation with cluster states and (X,Y)-plane measurements

    A. Mantri, T. F. Demarie, J. F. Fitzsimons

    Scientific Reports, 7:42861, 2017 (IF = 4.122)

  18. A universal test for gravitational decoherence

    C. Pfister, J. Kaniewski, M. Tomamichel, A. Mantri, R. Schmucker, N. McMahon, G. Milburn, S. Wehner

    Nature Communications, 7:13022, 2016 (IF = 12.353)

  19. Optimal blind quantum computation

    A. Mantri, C. A. Pérez-Delgado, J. F. Fitzsimons

    Physical Review Letters, 111(23):230502, 2013 (IF = 8.839)

  20. Non-Standard Probabilistic Teleportation through Conventionally Non-Teleporting Channels

    M. Mishra, A. Mantri, P. Mishra, P. K. Panigrahi

    arXiv:1108.0080, 2011

Academic Service

Editor
Quantum journal (2025–Present)
Steering Committee
DeCompute — The Conference on Decentralized Security with Multi-Party Computation (2023–25)
Moderator
The Quantum Protocol Zoo (2020–Present)
Session Chair
Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2025
Program Committee
IEEE QUILLS 2024; CIFRIS 2023 & 2024; Q-Turn 2020
Reviewer
ISAAC, STOC, FOCS, QIP, QCrypt, TQC, AQIS, Nature Quantum Information, Nature Communications, Quantum, QIC, Scientific Reports, Quantum Science and Technology, QINP, Cryptography; 10+ reviews across cryptography and quantum conferences and workshops in 2025 alone.
Grant Review
ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), 2023

Student and Postdoc Advising

Previous: Postdoctoral Researcher Chen Bai, VT Presidential Fellow, joint with Dr. Jamie Sikora (2024–26). Also mentors several high-school researchers each year through Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology's Quantum Information and Optics Lab.

Grant Details

Security vs Performance Trade-offs for Symmetric Ciphers in the Quantum World

PI, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Southwest Virginia Node — $50,000 · Jul '24 – Jun '25

RTX GRA Support

Co-PI (with Travis Morrison, PI), Raytheon Technologies — $57,000 · Fall 2024

Pilot-Study Donation Award, CS 4134 Hands-On Redesign

College of Engineering — $20,000 · 2025 — supported a hands-on, hardware- and programming-focused redesign of CS 4134, including real quantum-device access.

Conference Presentations

Recent Progress in Quantum Verification

Quantum Security Analysis of Key-Alternating Ciphers

Secure Computation during the Classical-to-Quantum Transition

Cryptography in a Quantum World

Blind Quantum Computation

On the Power of Trapdoor Claw-Free Functions

Unlocking the Quantum Frontier: A Journey into Computing and Cryptography

Secure Computing in the Quantum World

Quantum Cryptography on Solid Foundations

Progress on Verification of Quantum Computations

Abstract Cryptography and Delegated Quantum Computation

Secure Quantum Computing

What Makes Quantum Computers Powerful?

Secure Quantum Computation over Classical Networks

Secure Remote State Preparation and Its Applications

Security Limitations of Classical-Client Delegated Quantum Computing

Classically Driven Blind Quantum Computing

Optimal Blind Quantum Computing

Industry Collaboration

Quantum Industry

RTX (US), NTT Communication Science Laboratories (Japan), Horizon Quantum Computing (Singapore), Entropica Labs (Singapore), VeriQCloud (France)

Non-Quantum Industry

ObliviousAI (Ireland), IOHK (Switzerland), Silence Laboratories (Singapore)