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Mostafizur Rahaman

  • Researcher, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  • Research Scientist, IBM Quantum — on sabbatical
  • Visiting Scientist, RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing, Japan

About

I am a researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a Research Scientist at IBM Quantum currently on sabbatical, and a Visiting Scientist at the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing. My core expertise is Quantum Signal and Information Processing, with research spanning quantum information and learning theory, near-term quantum algorithms for noisy hardware, Hamiltonian simulation, functional approximation and encoding, open-system dynamics, and applications across quantum physics and chemistry, biology, communication theory, sensing, and signal processing. I received my M.S. and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, where I was a Prime Minister's Research Fellow.

Education

  • Ph.D.
    Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurPrime Minister's Research Fellow. Quantum algorithms and architectures for structured Hamiltonian operators with efficient gate complexity.
  • M.S. (Research)
    Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurStatistical signal processing, estimation, and learning.

Research interests

  • Quantum Information & Learning Theory
    Quantum information measures, uncertainty and capacity bounds, quantum reservoir computing, weak measurement, Lindblad dynamics, and learning in open quantum systems.
  • Near-Term Quantum Algorithms for Noisy Hardware
    Hamiltonian simulation, functional approximation, quantum encoding, spectral methods, gate and run-time complexity, circuit compilation, error analysis, and hardware-aware execution.
  • Quantum Signal Processing & Applications
    Quantum representations and transformations of signals, operators, and probability distributions, with applications across quantum chemistry and physics, biology, communication theory, sensing, and signal processing.

Professional service

  • IEEE
    Senior Member, IEEE Professional membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
  • Peer review
    Reviewer for Nature / Springer Nature journals and IEEE Transactions Review activity includes Scientific Reports, Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Machine Intelligence, EPJ Quantum Technology, and selected IEEE Transactions.

Publications & intellectual property

First/Joint-auhtored article & IP: 25+