Contact Information

Communication Sciences Institute
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
3740 McClintock Avenue, EEB - 514
Los Angeles, California 90089-2565

bilalsha[at]usc[dot]edu 

"What is that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea -- to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain -- plow had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find the way to make the lightnings carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea. To do something, say something, see something, before any body else -- these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial." (Twain)

I willl be starting my fourth year as a PhD candidate in the computer science department at the University of Southern California. In the past I have worked in the Laboratory for Molecular Science with Dr. Len Adleman on self-assembly.

Currently I am working with Dr. Todd Brun who is a faculty in the Communication Sciences Institute. I am interested in simulating quantum error-correcting codes under realistic physical noise models and analyzing their performance through various channels. I am also interested in simulating fault-tolerant quantum circuits and analyzing threshold estimates in the light of numerical data. Dr. Todd Brun and Dr. Ruediger Schack co-authored a software package to simulate quantum tranjectory equations. I later extended the software to include quantum operations with density matrices and a routine that solves the full Lindbladian master equation. If you would like to use the software to simulate interesting quantum information processing tasks, please feel free to e-mail me. A copy of the QIP software can be found here. It is freely available under GNU General Public License.

I am also affiliated with the Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology - CQIST.

My immediate research interests include steganography and expander graphs.

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