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Everything a journalist, conference organiser, or editor needs to quote, cite, or book Shujaatali Badami without a back-and-forth email thread.
This kit ships three pre-cleared bios (50, 100, 250 words), a name pronunciation guide, five ready-to-quote paragraphs across PQC, ICS, quantum kernels, IoT, and 6G, the full BibTeX of 11 publications, and a topic list with on-record positions. Download the bundle as a single zip, or grab individual files below. Last reviewed 2026-04-27.
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Single zip with everything below: bios, pronunciation, quote cards, topic positions, BibTeX, README.
Bios (3 pre-cleared lengths)
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100 WORDS
Name pronunciation
Shujaatali: shuh-JAH-ah-tah-lee (5 syllables, primary stress on JAH).
Badami: BAH-dah-mee (3 syllables, primary stress on BAH).
IPA: /ʃʊˈdʒɑːə.ta.li/ /ˈbɑː.də.mi/. Audio pronouncer in production.
Ready-to-quote paragraphs
Five quotes, on the record, attributed to Shujaatali Badami, IEEE Senior Member. Drop directly into copy.
1. POST-QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY URGENCY
"The harvest-now-decrypt-later attacker does not care that a cryptographically relevant quantum computer is five or ten years out. The attacker cares that the data they capture today will be decryptable then. For TLS-protected traffic that has long-term value (medical records, classified government communications, ICS telemetry), the migration to ML-KEM and ML-DSA needs to start now, not in 2030."
Shujaatali Badami, IEEE Senior Member
2. ICS PQC MIGRATION TIMELINE
"Migrating an industrial control system to post-quantum cryptography is not the same problem as migrating a website. ICS hardware has a 20 to 30 year service life, the cryptographic primitives are baked into HSMs and firmware that cannot be hot-swapped, and the operational tolerance for downtime is measured in single digits of minutes per year. The realistic ICS PQC transition is a decade-long capital programme, not a software update."
Shujaatali Badami, IEEE Senior Member
3. QUANTUM ADVANTAGE CLAIMS
"Every big quantum-advantage claim eventually deflates. The pattern is: a vendor publishes a benchmark, the classical-algorithms community sees it, and within a few months a smarter classical algorithm closes the gap. This is healthy. It is how the field calibrates."
Shujaatali Badami, IEEE Senior Member
4. IOT AND CONSTRAINED-DEVICE PQC
"Your smart bulb might outlive RSA. The cryptography on a constrained IoT device shipped today has to last 10 to 15 years in the field. ML-KEM-512 fits, ML-DSA fits with care, but the migration requires touching every device class, every protocol stack, every certification path."
Shujaatali Badami, IEEE Senior Member
5. COGNITIVE RADIO AND 6G
"6G is not a faster 5G. The radio learns. The radio also senses. The new attack surface is adversarial reinforcement learning, not packet replay. The cryptographic substrate has to be post-quantum from day one."
Shujaatali Badami, IEEE Senior Member
Topics with on-record positions
Citations and BibTeX
11 publications across IEEE Access, IEEE conference proceedings, and TechRxiv. Citations and DOIs for all of them at /cite/.
Contact
Email: shujaatali@ieee.org. Subject-line routing: prefix with [PRESS] for media, [SPEAKING] for booking. Same-day responses 9am to 5pm Central.
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