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, and has authored multiple research papers in premier conferences such as DAC, ISCAS, and HPCA, accumulating over 700 citations. In 2025, Abu was selected as a DAC Young Fellow and had papers accepted to DAC 2025 and ISCAS 2025 (two papers), in addition to poster acceptances at IEEE VIS 2024. He serves as a Session Chair for ICMLA 2024 and has been a Program Committee Member for ICMLA since 2023.

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, a travel grant from IEEE CEDA (2025), and graduate assistantships at both ULL and FIT.

Beyond his academic pursuits, he 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 one at the Ingenii Global Meetup 2023. He also continuously expands his expertise through certifications such as the IBM Quantum Challenge 2024, AWS Academy Data Engineering, and the AI & ML Security Bootcamp at LSU/IBM.