Vishal Katariya

Vishal Katariya is currently serving as an Associate Vice President at Ankur Capital Fund, focusing on investments in startups that emphasize IP-led innovation in sectors such as climate, energy, semiconductors, and biotech since September 2022. Prior to this role, Vishal contributed as a Graduate Research Assistant at Louisiana State University, where significant research efforts culminated in six peer-reviewed publications as part of a PhD in quantum information, completed in May 2022. Additional experience includes a summer research internship at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where work concentrated on quantum information theory, and a summer internship at Knowledge Foundry Business Solutions, which involved developing dimensionality reduction techniques and a recommender system for a client. Vishal holds a Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, completed in 2017.