Resume
Education
2011 - 2015
Imperial College LondonPhD, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
2008 - 2009
Imperial College LondonMSc, 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 LondonResearch 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
AcurableCo-founder / Head of Engineering
- Hardware and firmware development
- Mobile apps development
- Manufacturing and testing
- Regulatory compliance (MDD/MDR)
2016 - 2018
Imperial College LondonResearch Associate
2011 - 2015
Imperial College LondonResearch Assistant
2010 - 2011
Imagination TechnologiesDigital ASIC Designer - PowerVR Graphics
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.
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