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RahatulAshakin/README.md

Quantum & AI researcher working on Healthcare & Financial ML

  • 💼 Associate Researcher, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts.
  • 🎓 Prospective PhD; focus on Optimization for large models; robustness & privacy; biomedical (multi-omics) and clinical/financial AI; hardware-aware deployment across cloud/GPU, edge/IoT, and near-term quantum backends. [Curriculum Vitae]
  • 💻 Current projects:

IBD-Quantum-ESM (IBD multi-omics + ESM embeddings): Hybrid classical/quantum pipeline for IBD phenotyping (leakage-aware evaluation, reproducible CLI + artifacts); exploring quantum kernels (QSVC/QuantumKernel) alongside strong classical baselines.

CRISPR → Gene Regulation “Digital Twin” (RNA-seq + ATAC-seq + dependency screens): Interpretable gene regulation / GRN inference using quantum-inspired tensor networks (MPS), enabling in-silico perturbations and candidate prioritization for functional genomics follow-up.

Tamper-resistant BioAI foundation models: Integrity monitoring and defenses against adversarial fine-tuning / poisoning for scientific and biomedical LLM workflows; focus on reliability and safe deployment.

Quantum-guided transformer optimization (QAOA/VQE): QAOA/VQE-assisted hyperparameter optimization and benchmarking for transformer pipelines (validated on FinBERT as a controlled benchmark; extending the workflow to biomedical NLP and omics-focused models).

[Google Scholar][Website]

Selected Publications

  • 2026 Book chapter (forthcoming). “Current Tools and Techniques of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare.” In Quantum Computing in Medicine: Transforming Drug Discovery, Protein Folding, and Genomics Research through AI Integration (Elsevier). Book page

  • 2025-05-15 “Variational Quantum Circuits for Molecular Classification Using Graph Neural Network.” In QCNC 2025 (IEEE). DOI: 10.1109/QCNC64685.2025.00074

  • 2025-06-25 “Quantum Variational Transformer Model for Enhanced Cancer Classification.” In IEAI 2025, IOS Press (ATDE). DOI: 10.3233/ATDE250557

  • 2025 “Adaptive Multimodal AI with Liquid Neural Network for Edge Computing-Based AR.” In IEAI 2025, IOS Press (ATDE). DOI: 10.3233/ATDE250512

  • to appear 2025-12-28 “Quantum AI Enhanced Blockchain Security for Drug Discovery.” In ICIAI 2025 (Springer Nature Link (LNEE, Volume 1458). DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-0887-7_1

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  1. ibd-quantum-esm ibd-quantum-esm Public

    Quantum-informed IBD modeling using ESM protein embeddings and Qiskit QSVC/quantum kernels; CLI for ingest → train → report.

    Python 1

  2. ad-quantum-repurpose ad-quantum-repurpose Public

    Quantum optimization sandbox for drug repurposing: compare QAOA/VQE vs classical baselines with scripted docking (AutoDock Vina + RDKit) and reproducible workflows.

    Jupyter Notebook 1

  3. FinBERT_Quantum_Optimization FinBERT_Quantum_Optimization Public

    FinBERT fine-tuning with quantum optimization (QAOA/VQE) for financial sentiment; notebooks + environment for reproducible runs.

    Jupyter Notebook