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, 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)
- IEEE Access 2026 paper accepted: “Hardware-Agnostic Quantum Kernel Feature Mapping for Anomaly Detection in Critical Infrastructure”
- Quoted in TechNewsWorld on critical-infrastructure malware threats
- Quoted in ReversingLabs on Ethereum’s post-quantum initiative
- Authored Automation.com / ISA piece on quantum-safe gateway architectures
- Site redesign + research deep-dive pages launched
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
This is the launch of /now. Future monthly updates will include a short diff of what moved on, what got dropped, and what got added.
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.