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Shujaatali Badami

Quantum-IoT Research Engineer · IEEE Senior Member · ISA Senior Member · Hackathon Raptors Fellow · Chicago, IL.

Last updated 2026-04-26 · ORCID 0009-0003-5262-021X · Wikidata Q139499112

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Research profile

Quantum-IoT Research Engineer working at the intersection of post-quantum cryptography, quantum machine learning on NISQ hardware, and critical-infrastructure security. Research validated on IBM's 156-qubit ibm_fez processor and on Arduino-class embedded targets, aligned with NSA CNSA 2.0 migration timelines and NIST FIPS 203/204 standardization. Active in global standards leadership as a member of the IETF LAKE Post-Quantum EDHOC Design Team and the ISA99 Committee (ISA/IEC 62443), and through the United Nations ITU and IEEE technical program committees, with sole-author publications across quantum systems, IoT protocol design, and industrial anomaly detection.

Selected technical contributions

  • First peer-reviewed FIPS 203/204 implementation on Arduino-class IoT. ML-KEM and ML-DSA ported to ATmega328P (2 KB SRAM), achieving 136 ms signing latency and 1,850 TPS throughput. Directly addresses the NSA CNSA 2.0 migration mandate for embedded systems.
  • First native C oneM2M v5.1 under 64 MB. 17x memory reduction over prior Java and Python reference stacks, enabling standards-compliant M2M on resource-constrained devices.
  • First cross-testbed QML validation on NISQ hardware. 8-qubit ZZ feature-map kernels evaluated on IBM's 156-qubit ibm_fez, delivering a statistically significant AUC gain over classical SVMs (p = 0.003) on SWaT and HAI industrial control datasets.
  • First POMDP algorithm combining heuristic depth compression with Boltzmann sampling. Addresses the McCallum Utile Suffix Memory limitation open since 1995. Published as IEEE ICEACE 2024 sole-author.
  • First phase-space resolution of the E<0 region identified as open in Nakayama's 2022 double-well quantum bootstrap work, extending the microcanonical bootstrap framework.
  • Order-of-magnitude engineering gains. 10x requests-per-second on IoT workloads across LevelDB, RocksDB, Cassandra, HBase (LSM-Tree). 43.3% power and 29.7% delay reduction in AI-optimized VLSI. 25 to 30% energy savings at 0.93 sensing AUC for 6G cognitive radio.

Education (WES-verified)

  • MSc Data Science (Merit) · Liverpool John Moores University, UK · 2022, 2023 · Thesis: Deep Learning
  • MBA (Global) · Deakin University, Australia · 2020, 2022
  • Executive PG in Data Science · IIIT Bangalore, India · 2021, 2023
  • PG Diploma in Management · IMT Ghaziabad, India · 2020, 2021
  • Bachelor of Computer Applications · Karnataka State Open University, India · 2010, 2013

Memberships & credentials

  • IEEE Senior Member (top 10% of IEEE membership)
  • ISA Senior Member (International Society of Automation)
  • Hackathon Raptors Fellow
  • ACM Member · IEEE ComSoc Member

Standards body roles

  • IETF LAKE Working Group · PQ-EDHOC Design Team, quantum-resilient authenticated key exchange for constrained IoT
  • ISA99 Committee · ISA/IEC 62443, global standard for industrial automation and control system cybersecurity

Publications (11)

Reviewing & editorial record

  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF 10.6), top global IoT journal
  • Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (IF 7.5), tier-1 distributed systems venue
  • IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing (IF 9.2)
  • IEEE Open J. Communications Society (IF 6.1)
  • IEEE Communications Letters (IF 4.4)
  • IEEE Trans. Quantum Engineering (IF 3.9), invited by Dr. Joaquin Chung, Argonne National Laboratory (US DOE)
  • Wiley Int. J. Communication Systems (IF 2.1)

14-day turnaround. Open to AE roles up to 30 papers per year. Full record at /editorial/.

Conference TPC memberships

  • United Nations ITU Kaleidoscope 2026, 16th UN AI for Good Summit, Geneva
  • IEEE CCNCPS 2026, Communication, Computing, Networking, and Control in Cyber-Physical Systems
  • IEEE ACDSA 2026, Advanced Computer Design and System Architecture
  • IEEE ICECET 2026, Emerging Computing and Electronics Technology
  • IEEE ICMLCN 2026, Machine Learning and Cloud Networking
  • IEEE ICNC 2026, Networking and Computing
  • IEEE QCNC 2026, Quantum Computing and Networking
  • IEEE ICCSP 2026, Communication Signal Processing
  • IEEE EDUCON 2026, Special Session
  • IEEE ICOMIT 2026, Multidisciplinary Applications of Information Technology
  • Springer DMBD 2025, Data Mining and Big Data

Conference reviewer & special appointments

  • IEEE WCCI / IJCNN 2026, Emergency Reviewer (recruited by Conference Chairs)
  • IEEE ICIN 2026, Information and Networking
  • IEEE ICAD 2026, Audio, Acoustics, and Dialogue
  • IEEE DSIT 2025, Digital Signal Processing and Information Technology
  • IEEE ECCE 2026, Emerging Conference on Computing and Electronics
  • Elsevier ACLing 2025, Advanced Computational Linguistics
  • QCNS 2026, Quantum Computing and Networking Summit

Awards & honors

  • IEEE Senior Member (2024), top 10% of IEEE membership
  • ISA Senior Member (2025), International Society of Automation
  • Hackathon Raptors Fellowship

Invited judging, startups & hackathons

  • Seattle Startup Summit 2026, part of 50+ judge panel reviewing 300+ applicants and 120 finalists
  • AWS x Malaika-AI Founder Showcase 2025, judged 17 deep-tech startups (founders from Ex-Google, Ex-Lyft, Caltech, Yale, Stanford Research Institute)
  • Intercom x Malaika-AI Founder Showcase 2025, judged 14 deep-tech startups (founders from Ex-WhatsApp, NASA, Tesla, Visa, UC Berkeley)
  • Carta x Malaika-AI Founder Showcase, March 2026
  • SpartaHack 11, Michigan State University 2026, judge and mentor for 36-hour student hackathon
  • HackwithChicago 3.0, 2026, invited judge for regional Chicago hackathon
  • Vibe Awards, Vibe Demo Day, OSS4AI AI Agents Hackathons, Needle Hackathon (additional 2025, 2026)

Professional experience

Independent Researcher, Quantum-IoT (Q-IoT) Research Engineer

Chicago, IL, USA · Feb 2024, Present

  • Appointed member of the IETF LAKE Working Group Post-Quantum EDHOC Design Team, contributing to standardization of quantum-resilient authenticated key exchange for constrained IoT devices alongside researchers from Ericsson, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, INRIA, ISI Athens.
  • Member of the ISA99 Committee developing the ISA/IEC 62443 series, the global standard for industrial automation and control systems (IACS) cybersecurity.
  • Appointed TPC member for United Nations ITU Kaleidoscope 2026 and 10+ IEEE/Springer conferences.
  • Sole-authored IEEE Access paper validating 8-qubit ZZ feature-map kernels on IBM's 156-qubit ibm_fez NISQ processor for critical-infrastructure anomaly detection.
  • Published 1st-author IEEE paper on AI-optimized VLSI achieving 43.3% power and 29.7% delay reduction (2026), 2 sole-authored IEEE papers on quantum systems and blockchain consensus (2025), 3 sole-authored IEEE papers on lightweight cryptography, M2M protocols, and IoT standards (2024).
  • Invited journal reviewer for 7 high-impact venues including IEEE IoT Journal (IF 10.6), IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing (IF 9.2), Elsevier FGCS (IF 7.5), IEEE TQE (invited by Dr. Joaquin Chung, Argonne National Laboratory).
  • Authored technical article on quantum-safe industrial network gateways for Automation.com (ISA). Quoted as expert source by TechNewsWorld and ReversingLabs on ICS malware and post-quantum security.
  • Judged 100+ deep-tech startups, Web3 projects, and AI-agent hackathons at AWS, Carta, Intercom, OSS4AI, HackwithChicago, Michigan State University.

Elevenco Marketing Pvt Ltd, Founder & Chairman

India · Dec 2019, Dec 2022 · Applied AI and IoT Systems Engineering

  • Founded and led a technology services firm delivering applied AI, analytics, and IoT systems engineering across real estate, logistics, and manufacturing verticals.
  • Directed end-to-end delivery across four client portfolios (Marvella Developers, Square One Commercial, Golden Transport, Wellx Brothers).
  • Built IoT fleet telemetry (OBD-II sensor integration on 50+ heavy vehicles) with real-time GPS tracking. Drove vehicle utilization from 60% to 75% and reduced equipment downtime by 25%.
  • Engineered production analytics (batch tracking, QC metrics, yield optimization) that reduced manufacturing raw-material wastage from 15% to 8% and halved order-fulfillment lead time.
  • Established cloud-edge coordination and predictive-maintenance foundations that informed later federated-learning research streams.

Independent Consultant, Applied AI, Analytics, and Systems Engineering

India · Jan 2015, Nov 2019

  • Delivered applied AI, analytics, and system-optimization engagements across real estate, logistics, manufacturing, and e-commerce sectors.
  • Designed and deployed ETL pipeline architectures processing 100K+ daily records for Marvella Developers across 4 commercial and 2 residential projects.
  • Built MLOps frameworks and customer-segmentation systems that lifted sales-conversion rates from 3.2% to 4.8% and compressed report generation from 2, 3 days to 2, 3 hours.
  • Architected marketing analytics and lead scoring for Square One Commercial, raising follow-up rates from 40% to 85% with real-time pipeline visibility.

Technical expertise

  • Quantum systems. Quantum kernel methods, ZZ feature maps, variational quantum circuits on NISQ hardware (IBM ibm_fez), Qiskit Runtime, quantum bootstrap in microcanonical ensembles.
  • Post-quantum cryptography. NIST FIPS 203 ML-KEM, FIPS 204 ML-DSA, CRYSTALS-Kyber, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, embedded integration on ATmega328P and Arduino-class targets.
  • IoT and M2M standards. oneM2M v5.1 native C, CoAP, MQTT, sub-64 MB protocol stacks, OBD-II telemetry, IETF LAKE/EDHOC, ISA/IEC 62443.
  • Machine learning and control. POMDPs, reinforcement learning, Boltzmann sampling, federated learning, predictive maintenance, customer segmentation, MLOps pipelines.
  • VLSI and hardware. Energy-efficient architectures, hybrid RL/GA/Bayesian optimization, power-delay co-optimization.
  • Critical infrastructure security. Anomaly detection on SWaT and HAI datasets, ICS/OT threat modeling, quantum-safe industrial gateway architectures.
  • Systems and data engineering. LSM-tree storage with deferred updates, ETL pipeline architecture, real-time telemetry, distributed analytics.

Media appearances

  • Automation.com (ISA), 2026, Exploring Gateway Architectures for Quantum-Safe Industrial Networks (authored)
  • ReversingLabs, 2026, Crypto Group Ushers in Post-Quantum Security (quoted)
  • TechNewsWorld, 2026, Malware Threats Accelerate Across Critical Infrastructure (quoted)

Cite my work (BibTeX preview)

@article{badami2026quantum,
  author    = {Badami, Shujaatali},
  title     = {Hardware-Agnostic Quantum Kernel Feature Mapping for Anomaly Detection in Critical Infrastructure},
  journal   = {IEEE Access},
  year      = {2026},
  volume    = {14},
  pages     = {1--15},
  doi       = {10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3679234},
  publisher = {IEEE}
}

Full BibTeX for all 10 publications: /cite/.