Ahatesham Bhuiyan

Ahatesham Bhuiyan

CS Ph.D. student at UCF working on quantum computing and quantum security.

About me

Hi, I’m Ahatesham Bhuiyan, a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (UCF), currently working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. I previously served as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Unbounded AI Lab under Dr. Mengxin Zheng.

My current research focuses on quantum computing and quantum security — understanding vulnerabilities of quantum machine learning systems and designing hardware-aware security mechanisms for the quantum stack. Alongside this, I have a strong interest in machine learning security and trustworthy AI more broadly, including adversarial robustness, data privacy, and the security of large-scale AI systems.

Before joining UCF, I served as a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at City University, Dhaka, Bangladesh (currently on study leave). I earned my B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ETE) from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) in 2023, where my undergraduate research focused on natural language processing and computer vision — including context-aware attention mechanisms for image caption generation and multimodal learning.

Research Interests

  • Quantum Computing & Quantum Security
  • Machine Learning Security — adversarial robustness, model integrity, trustworthy AI

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Central Florida — Aug 2025 – Jul 2029 (expected)
  • B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) — 2018 – 2023

Experience

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Central Florida — Aug 2026 – Present
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant (Grader), University of Central Florida — May 2026 – Aug 2026
  • Graduate Research Assistant, University of Central Florida — Aug 2025 – May 2026
  • Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, City University, Dhaka, Bangladesh — Aug 2023 – Jul 2025 (on study leave)

News

  • Jul 21, 2026 — “Hardware Robustness of Sample-Based Quantum Diagonalization” accepted at the QCE’26 2nd Workshop on Quantum Computing Security, Privacy & Resilience (Q-Sec).
  • Jul 20, 2026 — “CutBackdoor: A Circuit Cut Triggered Backdoor Attack on Variational Quantum Algorithms” posted on arXiv.
  • Aug 2025 — Joined the Unbounded AI Lab at UCF as a Graduate Research Assistant.
  • Aug 2023 — Started as a Lecturer in EEE at City University, Dhaka.
  • 2023 — Completed B.Sc. in ETE at CUET.

Get in touch

Feel free to reach out at ahatesham.bhuiyan@ucf.edu — I’m always happy to discuss research collaborations, opportunities, or interesting ideas in quantum computing security and machine learning security.