Nikita Rao is currently a Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) since August 2021, pursuing a Doctor of Philosophy in Solid State NMR until July 2026. Prior to this role, Nikita worked as a Physics Subject Matter Expert at Chegg India from July 2020 to August 2021 and participated as a student in an Introduction to Quantum Computing course with IBM Quantum from October 2020 to April 2021. Nikita holds a Bachelor of Education from Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Shekhawati University, obtained in June 2021, and an Integrated MSc in Physics from the Central University of Rajasthan, completed in 2019.