Cybersecurity and Quantum Biomedical Interdisciplinary Technologies (Cy-QuBIT) Lab

Wu Yang

He received his M.Sc.  degree from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research interests include the development of low-energy and secure memory circuits, nano-technology device-based emerging computing, and side-channel analysis attacks.

Contact: wyang19@vols.utk.edu 

Personal Site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=h7q27E0AAAAJ 

Tyler Cultice

He received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from The University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. He joined as a graduate student at the University of Tennessee in Fall 2021. He is the recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), under the topic of Security in a Post-Quantum World. His research interests are cybersecurity, quantum computing, RTL design and validation, and embedded systems.

Contact: tcultice@vols.utk.edu 

Personal Site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9eUFpBwAAAAJ 

Bhaskar Gaur

Bhaskar Gaur is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research focuses on distributed and approximate quantum circuits for noise resilience, as well as enhancing the security of quantum computing systems. He conducts his research in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Bhaskar earned his M.Tech. in VLSI Design from VIT University, Vellore, India, in 2010. Before joining the Ph.D. program, he gained over seven years of industry experience in Integrated Circuit Design, working at Intel and Qualcomm. 

Contact: bgaur@vols.utk.edu 

Personal Site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YI1CL9gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

Joseph Clark

He received a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. He joined the University of Tennessee as a graduate student in Fall 2021, to pursue a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. He is a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) for quantum circuit compilation. His research interests are embedded systems, computer-aided design/design automation, and quantum computing.

Contact: jclar168@vols.utk.edu 

Personal Site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3_clj6EAAAAJ 

Md Saif Hassan Onim

He finished his BSc in Electrical Electronic & Communication Engineering from the Military Institute of Science and Technology, Bangladesh in 2020. After graduation, he worked as a Lecturer in MIST for 2 years. He joined as a graduate student at the University of Tennessee in Fall 2022. He is the recipient of the 2024 Outstanding Graduate TA Award in Computer Engineering. His research interest is in Adversarial AI, Machine Learning, and Quantum Machine Learning with their Application in Healthcare. 

Contact: monim@vols.utk.edu 

Personal Site: https://sites.google.com/view/md-saif-hassan/ 

Milad Tanavardi Nasab

He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering - Digital Electronic Systems from Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran, in 2019 and 2022, respectively. He received a Graduate School Fellowship from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering. His research interests include very large-scale integration (VLSI) design, emerging technologies, neuromorphic computing, approximate computing, and hardware security. 

Contact: mtanavar@vols.utk.edu 

Personal Site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-oAGXmIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

Sounak Bhowmik

He received his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, in 2021, and worked as a software developer in Lexmark R&D in Kolkata, India till 2023 before he joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to pursue his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering. His research interests align with intelligent systems, specializing in quantum information, quantum machine learning, and QML security. He is passionate about music and loves to learn new instruments, besides arts and literature. 

Contact: sbhowmi2@vols.utk.edu 

Personal Site: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2Hi758gAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

Austin Cambell Jerrolds

He received his BSc in Computer Engineering from Tennessee Technological University. He started his MS in Computer Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2024. His research interest is in Embedded Systems and FPGAs.

Contact: xcj139@vols.utk.edu