Now Page
What I’m doing now
An honest snapshot of where my attention is. Updated monthly.
As of
Current focus
Active research
Finishing the next quantum kernel paper , extending the IBM ibm_fez ZZFeatureMap work to longer-horizon dependencies in ICS time-series. Targeting an IEEE Open Journal submission.
Active standards work
Contributing to the IETF LAKE Working Group’s PQ-EDHOC design team. The current question is how to fit Kyber-768 + Dilithium2 inside a 1280-byte handshake without losing the EDHOC simplicity that drew people to it in the first place.
Active reviewing & editorial
Reviewing for IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE Open Journal Comms. Soc., IEEE Comms. Letters, IEEE Trans. Quantum Engineering. ~6 papers per month, two-week turnaround. Open to AE roles.
Recent & upcoming talks
ITU Kaleidoscope 2026 (UN AI for Good Summit, Geneva) , TPC member. Pitching a Chicago Quantum Exchange colloquium for Q3.
Reading & writing
Working through the latest NIST PQC Round 4 results, the Ethereum Foundation’s PQC roadmap RFCs, and prepping a long-form blog post on why ICS migration is 10× harder than TLS.
Recently shipped (last 3 months)
- Quoted in the TechNewsWorld lead story “First Quantum-Safe Transaction Mined on Bitcoin” (September)
- Appointed to the Technical Program Committees of IEEE ICIN 2027 and IEEE ICCSP 2027
- Expert source for Moonlock (MacPaw) on a macOS flaw that bypasses built-in security warnings (July)
- Quoted in Communications of the ACM, “Identities Unmasked”, on post-quantum migration deadlines and Mosca’s inequality (June)
- Reviewed for IEEE CNSM 2026, IEEE ICECCME 2026, and Springer ICICoS 2026
Currently saying yes to
- Journalist inquiries on PQC, ICS security, quantum kernels
- TPC invitations in my beat
- Editorial board / Associate Editor invitations
- Speaking at student events, IEEE sections, academic conferences
- Research collaboration intros (cold-email OK)
Currently saying no to
- Commercial consulting projects
- Undisclosed-paid placements or quote-for-link arrangements
- Speaking at vendor-sponsored events without editorial control
- Unrelated generative-AI / “AI strategy” generic asks
What changed since last update
Added since May: coverage in Communications of the ACM, TechNewsWorld, and Moonlock, TPC seats for the 2027 editions of IEEE ICIN and IEEE ICCSP, and new conference reviewing for IEEE CNSM, IEEE ICECCME, and Springer ICICoS. Moved out of this list: the spring 2026 papers and press, which remain on the homepage and CV.
I update this page on the first weekend of every month. If something here looks stale, please email me , the page is the contract.
Inspired by Derek Sivers’ /now page movement.