Keynotes & summits
Available CONUS + virtual. Pro bono for student events and IEEE local sections; honorarium-based for corporate summits.
Open to 4–6 talks per year · typical lead time 8 weeks
Why CRQC timelines, harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, and SCADA migration constraints make 2030 a planning goal rather than a forecast. Concrete risk picture for utility CISOs and policymakers, with examples from US grid SCADA and oil-and-gas OT.
ML-KEM (Kyber), ML-DSA (Dilithium), and SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+) on real constrained hardware — what works, what does not. Hybrid deployments, smartcard limits, and the HSM problem nobody talks about.
Lessons from running 8-qubit ZZFeatureMap on IBM ibm_fez (156 qubits), with cross-testbed validation on SWaT and HAI ICS datasets. What the +10.8% AUC actually buys you, and what shot-noise scaling will probably do to it.
Deep RL under partial observability, energy-aware reward shaping, and the security implications of policy-level attacks on radio controllers. Why the security model has to change when the radio learns.
Pro bono — student events, IEEE local sections, IETF/ISA standards work, accessibility-focused conferences.
Expense-only — academic conferences, standards body invited talks, university colloquia.
Honorarium-based — corporate summits, industry panels, paid keynotes. Rate varies by venue and prep effort.
Chicago-based · willing to travel anywhere in the continental US · virtual-first available · international with sufficient lead time.
Email shujaatali@ieee.org with subject [SPEAKING]. Response time 4–8 hours US Central. Include date range, format, audience, and honorarium tier in the first email — saves a round trip.