Aritra Sarkar is a postdoctoral researcher at QuTech, in the quantum machine learning group of the Department of Quantum and Computer Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. He received his bachelor of technology in avionics from the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology in 2013. Thereafter, he worked as a scientist in the Indian Space Research Organisation until 2016. Aritra completed his master of science in computer engineering from the Delft University of Technology in 2018. He then joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences working toward a doctorate of philosophy with the dissertation “Applications of Quantum Computation and Algorithmic Information for Causal Modeling in Genomics and Reinforcement Learning.” Aritra likes to describe himself as a philosopher who loves modeling the world via the lens of programming and computation.