Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum

A Short Bio:

Abu Kaisar Mohammad Masum is a Ph.D. student in Quantum Machine Learning and Emerging Computing at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Daffodil International University, Bangladesh. He has authored multiple research papers in premier conferences, including DAC, ISLPED, ISCAS, QCE, ICCD, GLSVLSI, MWSCAS, AAAI Symposium (QIML), and ARQTEC @HPCA. In 2025, Abu was selected as a DAC Young Fellow, and his work was recognized with paper acceptances at DAC 2025 and poster acceptances at IEEE VIS 2024. He serves as a Session Chair for ICMLA 2024, has been a Program Committee Member for ICMLA since 2023, and was recently selected to serve on the Scientific Committee for LREC 2026. Most recently, Abu was a Winner of the NASA Beyond the Algorithm Challenge: Novel Computing Architectures for Flood Analysis, securing a $100K grant with his team for pioneering work that combines Quantum Computing and Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) for real-world flood analysis. His academic achievements have been recognized through numerous awards, including the Academic Excellence Award and the Leaf Award at ULL (2025), the Outstanding Student of the Year (2023), and Peer Tutoring Excellence Awards (Fall 2023 & Spring 2024) at FIT. He was also honored with the Best Performing Faculty and Best Researcher Awards from Daffodil International University in 2021. Abu has secured several prestigious scholarships and travel grants, including full funding to attend the Quantum Ideas Summer School 2024 at Duke University, support to participate in the TigerAI Bootcamp at LSU, and travel grants from IEEE CEDA (2025), IEEE Computer Society (2025), and AAAI, alongside graduate assistantships at both ULL and FIT. Beyond his academic pursuits, Abu remains active in the research community as a member of IEEE, IEEE CASS, IEEE CEDA, and the IEEE Quantum Technical Community. He has delivered invited talks, including at the Ingenii Global Meetup 2023, and continues to expand his expertise through certifications such as the IBM Quantum Challenge 2024, AWS Academy Data Engineering, and the AI & ML Security Bootcamp at LSU/IBM.

Current Affiliation: Graduate Teaching / Research Assistant (GTA/GRA) at University of Louisiana at Lafayette 301 E. Lewis St., James R. Oliver Hall, Room 359, Lafayette, LA 70503, USA e-mail: c00591145@louisiana.eduPhD Advisor: Dr. Sercan Aygun

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News:

[Oct' 25] Paper accepted AAAI-25 (Student Abstract) (A*- CSrank).
[Sep' 25] Selected to serve on the Scientific Committee for LREC (International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation) 2026.
[Sep' 25] Paper accepted in ICCD (2025).
[Sep' 25] Our proposal won the NASA Beyond the Algorithm Challenge: Novel Computing Architectures for Flood Analysis with $100K grant .
[Sep' 25] Received AAAI travel grant for the AAAI symposium.
[Aug' 25] Paper Accepted in AAAI symposium (QIML).
[Jul' 25] Received IEEE Computer Society Student Travel Grant for QCE'25 conference.
[Jul' 25] Received Student Service Award from GLSVLSI (2025).
[Jul' 25] Paper accepted in QCE (IEEE Quantum Week) 2025.
[May' 25] Paper accepted MWSCAS 2025.
[May' 25] Paper accepted ISLPED 2025 (A rank).
[May' 25] Three papers accepted (Oral) in GLSVLSI (2025).
[Apr' 25] Selected for the IEEE CEDA 2025 Travel Grant.
[Apr' 25] One paper accepted in GLSVLSI LBR (2025).
[Apr' 25] Achieved Academic Excellence Award from University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
[Apr' 25] Accepted as a DAC Young Fellow.
[Apr' 25] Achieved Leaf Award from University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
[Mar' 25] Paper accepted DAC 2025 (CS rank-A*).
[Mar' 25] Poster accepted DCAS 2025 Student Poster Competition.
[Feb' 25] Join IEEE and Become a Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS).
[Feb' 25] Our paper is accepted to ARQTEC collocated with HPCA 2025.
[Jan' 25] Two papers accepted ISCAS 2025 (A rank), London, UK.
[Dec' 24] Session Chair for ICMLA 2024, Miami, Florida.
[Nov' 24] Presented our work AMS-HD fiftieth anniversary of founding the College of Sciences at ULL.
[July' 24] Our poster has been accepted to IEEE Vis 2024 (A rank).
[June' 24] I have attended Quantum Ideas Summer School 2024 at Duke University.
[June' 24] I have completed the IBM Quantum Challenge 2024.
[May' 24] I have joined LSU/IBM AI & Security Summer Bootcamp 2024 at Louisiana State University(LSU).
[April' 24] I received "Outstanding Student of The Year 2023" from Florida Institute of Technology(FIT).
[April' 24] I received "Peer Tutoring Excellence Award Spring 2024" from Florida Institute of Technology(FIT).
[April' 24] I've been accepted into the LSU-IBM Cybersecurity for LLMs summer camp funded by NSF & IBM.
[April' 24] I've been accepted into STAQ Quantum Ideas Summer School supported by the National Science Foundation(NSF)
[Dec' 23] I've presented one long and one short paper to ICMLA 2023 at Jacksonville, FL.
[Dec' 23] I received "Peer Tutoring Excellence Award Fall 2023" from Florida Institute of Technology(FIT).
[Nov' 23] I've joined the program committee for the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2024) in Miami, Florida.
[Oct' 23] I gave an invited talk at the Ingenii Global Community Meetup-2023 on “Hybrid Quantum Sentiment Analysis”.
[Sep' 23] I have selected Member of the Week by Ingenii.
[Sep' 23] Our two papers have been accepted in ICMLA 2023.
[Aug' 23] I've joined the program committee for the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2023) in Jacksonville, FL.