collaborators

5 papers

cs.CL2026

Quantum-Audit: Evaluating the Reasoning Limits of LLMs on Quantum Computing

Mohamed Afane, Kayla Laufer, Wenqi Wei +4

Language models have become practical tools for quantum computing education and research, from summarizing technical papers to explaining theoretical concepts and answering questio…

quant-ph2026

Differentiable Architecture Search for Adversarially Robust Quantum Computer Vision

Mohamed Afane, Quanjiang Long, Haoting Shen +4

Current quantum neural networks suffer from extreme sensitivity to both adversarial perturbations and hardware noise, creating a significant barrier to real-world deployment. Exist…

cs.CY2025

Can LLMs Help Allocate Public Health Resources? A Case Study on Childhood Lead Testing

Mohamed Afane, Ying Wang, Juntao Chen

Public health agencies face critical challenges in identifying high-risk neighborhoods for childhood lead exposure with limited resources for outreach and intervention programs. To…

quant-ph2025

SQUASH: A SWAP-Based Quantum Attack to Sabotage Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks

Rahul Kumar, Wenqi Wei, Ying Mao +3

We propose a circuit-level attack, SQUASH, a SWAP-Based Quantum Attack to sabotage Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks (HQNNs) for classification tasks. SQUASH is executed by inserting…

quant-ph2025

ATP: Adaptive Threshold Pruning for Efficient Data Encoding in Quantum Neural Networks

Mohamed Afane, Gabrielle Ebbrecht, Ying Wang +2

Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) offer promising capabilities for complex data tasks, but are often constrained by limited qubit resources and high entanglement, which can hinder sca…