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Apr 2026 Awarded the Alumni Association Dissertation Award by Penn State!
Feb 2026 Our paper Efficient Optimization of Variational Quantum Algorithms via Gradient-Free Parameter Prediction has been accepted at IEEE Access!
Nov 2025 Gave an invited talk on Data Poisoning Attacks on Quantum Machine Learning at QCCS 2025.
Jul 2025 Awarded the Harvey and Geraldine Brush Graduate Fellowship in Engineering by Penn State!
Jun 2025 Awarded the 2024-25 Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Student Persistence Scholarship by Penn State!
May 2025 Our paper STIQ received the Best Paper Award (1 of 140+ submissions) at IEEE HOST 2025!
Apr 2025 Our paper Inverse-Transpilation has been accepted at ACM GLSVLSI 2025 in the Advances in Security of Quantum Computing session!
Apr 2025 Our paper Adversarial Data Poisoning Attack on Quantum Machine Learning in the NISQ Era has been accepted for oral presentation at ACM GLSVLSI 2025!
Nov 2024 Our paper STIQ: Safeguarding Training and Inferencing of Quantum Neural Networks from Untrusted Cloud has been accepted at IEEE HOST 2025!
Oct 2024 Gave a talk on Security of Quantum Machine Learning at QCCS 2024.
Sep 2024 Our paper SoK: Security Concerns in Quantum Machine Learning as a Service has been accepted at ACM HASP 2024 (co-located with MICRO)!
Apr 2024 Passed my Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam!
Apr 2024 Our paper Evaluating Efficacy of Model Stealing Attacks and Defenses on Quantum Neural Networks has been accepted at ACM GLSVLSI 2024!
Mar 2024 Received $70,000 in IBM Quantum research credits for my work on improving the efficiency of variational quantum algorithms (VQAs)!