About
Vikas Kumar Garg is an Assistant Professor at Aalto University specializing in Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)/Deep Learning (DL), with research spanning theoretical and applied domains including Computational Biology, Healthcare (protein and drug design), Material Synthesis, Cybersecurity, Energy systems, E-commerce, Wireless networks, Blockchain, IoT, Computer Vision, and Natural Language Processing.
His work focuses on human-assisted drug discovery, generative models, and learning under uncertainty, intersecting quantum AI with optimization and game theory. Key application areas include Biopharma, Retail, Manufacturing Automation, and FinTech through his industry collaborations.
Professor Garg maintains extensive academic-industrial partnerships with leading researchers:
- Tommi Jaakkola (PhD supervisor, MIT)
- Cynthia Rudin (SM supervisor, Duke University)
- Raquel Urtasun (MS supervisor, University of Toronto/Waabi)
- Regina Barzilay and Stefanie Jegelka (MIT)
- Microsoft Research teams (Adam Kalai, David Alvarez-Melis, Ofer Dekel)
- CMU (Steven Wu), Caltech/Hebrew University (Katrina Ligett)
- Amazon Research (Inderjit Dhillon), Facebook AI (Lin Xiao)
- University of Cambridge (Roberto Cipolla), University of Chicago (Risi Kondor)
As Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of YaiYai Oy, he drives quantum-AI solutions for global clients across Biopharma, Energy, and Gaming sectors while maintaining active academic research.
