MrsShanika Nanayakkara

I have been appointed as a member of the Organizing Committee for The 2025 International Conference on Applications and Techniques in Information Security (ATIS 2025). In this role, I actively contribute to the design and delivery of hands-on training sessions and 1:1 mentorship activities, serving as a lecturer and mentor for participants. My involvement focuses on creating practical, research-informed learning experiences that help attendees strengthen their skills in information security and related advanced technologies such as AI and quantum computing.

I am an active member of the IOT Quantum Research Team working across multiple projects in quantum machine learning and quantum federated learning. Our work focuses on designing and implementing quantum algorithms for medical applications, large language model (LLM) pipelines, and autonomous vehicles, with a strong emphasis on improving performance, communication efficiency, and security in distributed quantum settings. We are heavily involved in quantum programming training and research using Qiskit, and we routinely validate our proposed methods on real IBM Quantum platforms, conducting real-time experiments to bridge the gap between theoretical development and practical deployment.