Bhagiradh Kantheti is a graduate student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He completed his B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCCS. He is working as a machine learning engineer at WGU. He previously published work on MPC-based secure Transformer inference at the 7th AICCC (2024). His research interests include privacy-preserving machine learning, differential privacy, quantum-inspired computing, and Transformer architectures for time-series forecasting.

Carlos A. Paz De Araujo is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has published extensively in semiconductor devices, memory technologies, and applied computing, and holds multiple patents in ferroelectric memory and related technologies. His current research interests include applied machine learning, privacy-preserving computing, and quantum-inspired architectures for sequential data processing.