Rishab Dutta

Experience

• Computational Scientist, Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA (June 2025 – present)
• Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, USA (September 2023 – June 2025)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, USA (August 2017 – August 2023)

Education

• Ph.D. in Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, USA (2023)
• M.A. in Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, USA (2019)
• M.Sc. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (2017)
• B.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India (2015)

Awards

• Löwdin Postdoctoral Researcher Award, 63rd Sanibel Symposium, University of Florida, USA (2024)
• Fall Travel Award, Chemistry Graduate Student Association, Rice University, USA (2022)
• Harry B. Weiser Research Award, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, USA (2021)
• Summer Research Programme Bursary, School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, UK (2016)
• INSPIRE Scholarship for Higher Education, Department of Science and Technology, India (2012 – 2017)

Publications

See the Publications page.

Invited talks

• Pint of Postdoc, Yale Postdoctoral Association, Yale University, New Haven, USA (May 22, 2025)
• Workshop on Quantum Computing Applications in Quantum Chemistry, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Microsoft Azure Quantum, Seattle, USA (April 11, 2025)

Teaching

• Teaching assistant, CHEM 531: Advanced Quantum Chemistry, Rice University (Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
• Teaching assistant, CHEM 430/530: Quantum Chemistry, Rice University (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
• Teaching assistant, CHEM 124: General Chemistry Lab II, Rice University (Spring 2018)
• Teaching assistant, CHEM 123: General Chemistry Lab I, Rice University (Fall 2017, Fall 2018)

Interests

• Reviewer of scientific articles (2024 – present) ORCiD
  Journals: Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Chemical Reviews, npj Quantum Information, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering
• Personal blog on science, music, math, and computing (2017 – present) blog
• Contributing writer, Enquiry Magazine, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University (2021 – 2022) magazine

Media

• Review article on quantum machine learning featured in NVIDIA blog post (2024) blog
• Research featured in Enquiry Magazine, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Rice University (2022) article