Principal Investigator
Samah Mohamed Ahmed Saeed
Email: ssaeed@ccny.cuny.edu
The director of the SERS Lab is Prof. Samah Mohamed Ahmed Saeed, who is an assistant professor in the electrical engineering department at Grove School of Engineering at CCNY, City University of New York. Prof. Saeed received her Ph.D. in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Her research interests include the security and the reliability of quantum systems, hardware security, and testing VLSI circuits. Her research has been recognized through several awards including the best paper award at IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, the Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award by NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, and the TTTC’s E.J. McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award at the IEEE International Test Conference.
PhD Students
Mohammad Walid Charrwi
Email: mcharrwi@ccny.cuny.edu
Mohammad Walid Charrwi is a Ph.D. student in the electrical engineering department at Grove School of Engineering, City College of New York (CCNY). As a Research Assistant at SERS, he is working on quantum compilation optimization, enhancing quantum computing efficiency using Machine Learning for near-term quantum computing. He also received the first position for CSAW’22 US-Canada competition in the HardwareVsHuman Division. Additional research interests include Hardware Trojans Security, AI Accelerators and High-Performance computing.
Gopika Kizhuvettil
Email: gkizhuvettil@ccny.cuny.edu
Gopika Kizhuvettil is a Ph.D. student in the electrical engineering department at Grove School of Engineering, City College of New York (CCNY), part of the City University of New York (CUNY). She earned her Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Her research interests span across Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Image Processing.
Donald Lushi
Email: dlushi@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Donald Lushi is a graduate student at CUNY Graduate Center pursuing his Doctorate in Computer Science, following his Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from The City College of New York. His research interests focus on Quantum Computing, Machine Learning, and Cyber Security.
Undergraduate Students
Georgios Ioannou
Email: gioanno000@citymail.cuny.edu
Georgios Ioannou is a master student pursuing a MS degree in Data Science at New York University Center for Data Science. He earned his BS degree in Computer Science from The City College of New York while minoring in Mathematics. He was the Grove School of Engineering 2024 Valedictorian and earned the Engineering Alumni Medalist for The Grove School of Engineering Department of Computer Science. As a researcher at SERS, he builds and fine tunes Graph Neural Networks for fidelity prediction. Outside SERS, he aspires to leverage artificial intelligence techniques to improve brain tumor understanding, diagnosis, and treatment.
Christian Rasmussen
Email: crasmus000@citymail.cuny.edu
Christian Rasmussen is a third-year computer science student at the Grove School of Engineering and CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College. As an assistant researcher at SERS, he develops reliable methodologies for quantum circuit security and compilation for near-term quantum computing. Additional interests lie in machine learning, high-performance computing, scientific simulation, and advanced linear algebra.
High School Students
Everett Eng
Everett is a High School student from Hunter College High School. His research interest focus on Quantum Circuit Compilation and Machine Learning.
Alumni
Vedika Saravanan
PhD student in Electrical Engineering
Years Active: 2019-2023
Nikita Acharya
MEng student in Computer Engineering
Years Active: 2019-2021