PhD Student · Computer Science

Asif Mohammed Saad

Tulane University · Department of Computer Science

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Tulane University, working in Dr. Jiyuan Wang's lab. My research interests include quantum computing, quantum software engineering, autonomous systems, trustworthy and safe large language models, and benchmarking and reasoning in language models.

Research Interests

Quantum Computing

Quantum algorithms, quantum machine learning, and practical development of quantum-enabled computing systems.

Quantum Software Engineering

Methods, tools, testing practices, and software-engineering principles for reliable quantum applications.

Autonomous Systems

Intelligent perception, decision-making, and dependable software for autonomous and real-time systems.

Trustworthy AI

LLM safety, hallucination detection and mitigation, reliability, and responsible model behavior.

LLM Evaluation

Evaluation design, factual reliability, robustness, and reasoning capabilities and limitations of language models.

Applied Machine Learning

Computer vision, time-series modeling, and machine-learning methods for scientific and real-world data.

Selected Work

Bangla News Article Dataset

Data in Brief, 2024

A. M. Saad, U. N. Mahi, M. S. Salim, and S. I. Hossain.

Vehicle Detection in Complex Urban Settings

Research on evaluating YOLO architectures for vehicle detection in Bangladesh.

MNIST Image Classification with QNN

A hybrid quantum neural network workflow for handwritten-digit classification using PyTorch and the Classiq SDK.

Teaching

Previously taught courses in artificial intelligence, database management systems, cybersecurity, microprocessors and microcontrollers, and mobile application development.

Learn more about my teaching experience or view my curriculum vitae.