M.Sc. Nikhitha Nunavath

PhD Researcher

Curriculum Vitae

Nikhitha Nunavath is a PhD researcher at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks, in Quantum Communication Networks Research Group, at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Dresden. She received her BSMS dual degree majoring in physics from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Tirupati from 2016-2021. Her MS thesis was titled ‘Quantum teleportation – deterministic and probabilistic schemes’ for quantum communications. She then worked as a Junior Research Fellow at Japyee Institute of Information technology, Noida, India in the group of quantum optics and communications in 2021-2022. During this period she was a Junior Research Fellowship recipient, given by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Then after, she joined the chair as PhD researcher. Her research at TU Dresden majorly focuses on physical layer service integration for the classical-quantum hybrid network stack. She also is involved in post-quantum communications, specially in quantum semantics and quantum message ID problems, for there applications in 6G.

Publications

2025

Raman, Vignesh; Nunavath, Nikhitha; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Can Quantum Semantic Communication Intrinsically Exhibit Resilience in 6G Networks? Proceedings Article

In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-6, Montreal, Canada, 2025.

BibTeX

2024

Nunavath, Nikhitha; Hello, Nour; Strinati, Emilio Calvanese; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Towards Quantum Semantic Communications: A Framework for Integrating Quantum & Semantic Technologies Proceedings Article

In: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, 2024.

BibTeX

Nunavath, Nikhitha; Strinati, Emilio Calvanese; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Pragmatic Semantic Communication through Quantum Channel Proceedings Article

In: 2024 International Conference on 6G Networking (6GNet 2024), Paris, France, 2024.

BibTeX

Nunavath, Nikhitha; Habibie, Muhammad Idham; Strinati, Emilio Calvanese; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Quantum Semantic Communications for Graph-Based Models Proceedings Article

In: International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), Lucca, Italy, 2024.

BibTeX

2023

Nunavath, Nikhitha; Garbugli, Andrea; Nande, Swaraj Shekhar; Foschini, Luca; Bassoli, Riccardo; Fitzek, Frank H. P.

Network Time Synchronization as a Quantum Physical Layer Service Proceedings Article

In: European Wireless (EW), Rome, Italy, 2023.

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Supervision

Vincent Bradatsch
Supervisor: Frank Peters
2025
Florian Thiessenhusen
Supervisor: Frank Peters
2025
Anne Harloff
Supervisor: Frank Peters
2025

Awards

Outstanding Achievement
from the National Academy of Sciences, India in 2021

Contact Person

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