Resume

Education

2011 - 2015
Imperial College London
2008 - 2009
Imperial College London

MSc, Analogue and Digital Integrated Circuit Design

Dissertation: A Low-Power Hardware Demonstrator For Compressive Sensing.

2004 - 2008
National University of Sciences and Technology (Pakistan)

BEng, Electronic Engineering

Final Year Project: Development Of An Object Tracking System Using A Pan-Tilt Camera, With Webcam For Image Acquisition And Simulink For Image Processing.

Employment

2018 - Current
Imperial College London

Research Fellow

Senior researcher in Wearable Technologies Lab with expertise in following areas:

Wearable Medical Devices: Low-power wearable systems for monitoring and diagnosis of sleep disorders, epilepsy, and autism disorders. Development of mobile applications for clinical use.

Biomedical Signal Processing: Focused on areas related to respiratory, cardiac and neural signals. Low-complexity algorithms. Machine learning.

Circuits, Systems and Communication: Analogue and digital integrated circuits. Embedded systems. IoT. Sensor networks. Bluetooth Low Energy.

2016 - Current
Acurable

Co-founder / Head of Engineering

  • Hardware and firmware development
  • Mobile apps development
  • Manufacturing and testing
  • Regulatory compliance (MDD/MDR)

2016 - 2018
Imperial College London

Research Associate

2011 - 2015
Imperial College London

Research Assistant

2010 - 2011
Imagination Technologies

Digital ASIC Designer - PowerVR Graphics

Chartered Engineer (CEng)

Chartered Engineer (CEng)

Member, IET

SMIEEE

SMIEEE

Senior Member, IEEE

Programming

Swift

C/C++

Matlab

Python

VHDL

Verilog

PHP

HTML / CSS

JavaScript

Perl

Tcl

Teaching and Research Supervision

2016 - Current

PhD Research Supervision

Co-supervisor of 3 PhD students.

2014 - Current

MEng/MSc Project Supervision

Supervised 14 masters students.

2017 - 2019

Engineering Design and Practice (1st Year Undergraduate)

Group meetings, discussion, and assessment.

2013 - 2015

High Performance Analogue Electronics (4th Year MEng/MSc)

Delivery of lectures, preparation of lecture notes and marking of exams.

2013 - 2015

Mathematics Tutorials (1st Year Undergraduate)

Tutorial sessions with student groups.

2012 - 2014

Integrated Circuit Design Lab (MSc)

Lab demonstration and coursework assessment.

Associate Fellow

Associate Fellow

Higher Education Academy

Funding, Honours, and Awards

2019

Dame Julia Higgins Engineering Postdoc Collaborative Fund Award - £1,500

2019

Co-applicant, Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst 2018 (Round 2) - £820,000

2019

PFDC Award for the Best Postdoc Representative at Imperial College London

2017

IET J.A. Lodge Award for most promising Early Career Research in the field of Biomedical Engineering in the UK

2015

Named Investigator on ERC Proof of Concept grant - €150,000

2014

Distinguished Award Winner at Nokia Sensing XChallenge Competition - $120,000

Professional Service

2018 - Current

Associate Editor, IEEE Access

2016

Invited Guest Editor, Polymers

Special Issue titled Wearable Sensor.

2015 - Current

Reviewer for Journals

  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
  • IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
  • IEEE Access
  • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
  • Data in Brief
  • Sensors
  • Measurement
  • Electronic Letters

2015 - Current

Reviewer for Conferences

  • IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference
  • IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference
  • IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems