Research

My research spans quantum foundations, quantum computing, and compositional approaches to quantum theory and natural language processing, with emphasis on string diagrams and pictorial mathematics.

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Publications

Theses

Books

  • Anwar, M. S., Ilahi, F. E., Shah, S.B.H., & Waseem, M. H. (2024). Quantum Mechanics in the Single-Photon Laboratory, 2nd Edition. Institute of Physics (IOP). Link

  • Waseem, M. H., Ilahi, F. E., & Anwar, M. S. (2020). Quantum Mechanics in the Single Photon Laboratory. IOP Publishing. Link

Journal Articles and Proceedings

  • Selma Dündar-Coecke, Lia Yeh, Emmanuel Pothos, Waseem, M. H., Bob Coecke. (2026). Beyond Symbolic Algebra with Quantum Picturalism. Frontiers in Cognition.

  • Bob Coecke, Aleks Kissinger, Stefano Gogioso, Selma Dündar-Coecke, Caterina Puca, Lia Yeh, Waseem, M. H., Emmanuel M Pothos, Sieglinde Pfaendler, Vincent Wang-Maścianica, Thomas Cervoni, Ferdi Tomassini, Vincent Anandraj, Peter Sigrist, Ilyas Khan. (2026). High schoolers excel at Oxford quantum course using pictorial mathematics. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. IOP.

  • Selma Dündar-Coecke, Caterina Puca, Lia Yeh, Muhammad Hamza Waseem, Emmanuel M Pothos, Thomas Cervoni, Sieglinde M-L Pfaendler, Vincent Wang-Maścianica, Peter Sigrist, Ferdi Tomassini, Vincent Anandraj, Ilyas Khan, Stefano Gogioso, Aleks Kissinger, Bob Coecke. (2025). Making the quantum world accessible to young learners through Quantum Picturalism: An experimental study. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01013.

  • Waseem, M. H., & Karenowska, A. (2023). String Diagrams for Wave-based Computation. Applied Physics Letters.

  • Selma Dundar-Coecke, Caterina Puca, Lia Yeh, Sieglinde M.-L. Pfaendler, Waseem, M. H., Thomas Cervoni, Stefano Gogioso, Aleks Kissinger, Bob Coecke. (2023). Quantum Picturalism: Learning Quantum Theory in High School. In Proceedings of QCE 2023. IEEE.

  • Gogioso, S., Wang-Maścianica, V., Waseem, M. H., Scandolo, C. M., & Coecke, B. (2023). Constructor Theory as Process Theory. In Proceedings of ACT 2023.

  • Waseem, M. H., Liu, J., Wang-Mascianica, V., & Coecke, B. (2022). Language-independence of DisCoCirc’s Text Circuits: English and Urdu. In End-to-End Compositional Models of Vector-Based Semantics (E2ECOMPVEC). NUI Galway.

  • Waseem, M. H., Ilahi, F. E., & Anwar, M. S. (2019). Hippopedal Intensity Plots: Drawing Comparisons between Antenna and Optical Polarimetry. Applied Optics.

  • Ansari, M. A., Mehmood, M. Q., Kim, I., Waseem, M. H., Tauqeer, T., Yerci, S., & Rho, J. (2019). A Single-Layer Dielectric Metasurface Enabling Wave Incidence Direction Control. In 2019 Thirteenth International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena (Metamaterials) (pp. X-038). IEEE.

  • Ansari, M. A., Kim, I., Lee, D., Waseem, M. H., Zubair, M., Mahmood, N., Badloe, T., Yerci, S., Tauqeer, T., & Mehmood, M. Q. (2019). A Spin‐Encoded All‐Dielectric Metahologram for Visible Light. Laser & Photonics Reviews.

  • Ansari, M. A., Mehmood, M. Q., Waseem, M. H., Kim, I., Mahmood, N., Tauqeer, T., Yerci, S., & Rho, J. (2019). Helicity-Multiplexed Hologram via All-Dielectric Metasurface in the Visible Domain. In Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO). San Jose, California, United States.

  • Ansari, M. A., Waseem, M. H., Kim, I., Mahmood, N., Jeong, H., Tahir, F. A., Tauqeer, T., Mehmood, M. Q., & Rho, J. (2018). Highly Efficient Visible Hologram through Dielectric Metasurface. In International Conference on Metamaterials and Nanophotonics (METANANO). Sochi, Russia.

  • Sheikh, H. M., Shabbir, Z., Ahmed, H., Waseem, M. H., & Sheikh, M. Z. (2017). Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of a Modified Savonius Rotor and Optimization Using Response Surface Methodology. Wind Engineering.

Research Projects