Masab Ahmad

Present Address
70 Pinney Hill Rd, Apt 92
Willington, CT, USA 06279
(+1) 860-634-6821
Email: masab.ahmad@uconn.edu,masab_ahmad@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.linkedin.com/in/masabahmad
Research
Interests

Programming, Design, and Hardware Implementations of Signal Processing Algorithms

Area/Power/Throughput Optimization of Architectures
Computer Architecture Design and Security
Cryptology & Trusted Computing

Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

University of Connecticut (UConn), Storrs, CT, USA.
Advised by Omer Khan and Martin van Dijk.

January 2014 - Present

B.E. Electrical Engineering

October 2009 - June 2013
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) , Islamabad, Pakistan
CGPA 3.32/4.00 , Class Rank: Top 20%, TOEFL: 107/120
A. and O. Levels
The City School, Capital Campus, Islamabad, Pakistan
Publications
and Research
Reports

2005 - 2009

Masab Ahmad, Awais M. Kamboh, and Rehan Hafiz,Power & Throughput Optimized Lifting Architecture
for Wavelet Packet Transform, IEEE Int. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2014.
Masab Ahmad and Awais M. Kamboh,A Hardware Efficient Wavelet Packet Best Tree Architecture for
Signal Compression, IEEE Int. New Circuits and Systems Conf. (NEWCAS), 2013 (Accepted).
Masab Ahmad, Awais M. Kamboh and Ahmed Khan,Non-Invasive blood glucose monitoring using NearInfrared Spectroscopy, Medical Design Center, EDN Network, 2013.
Masab Ahmad, M. Uzair Khalid, Awais M. Kamboh, and Rehan Hafiz,A Non-Invasive Infrared and Photoacoustic based Hybrid Architecture for Blood Glucose Analysis, Undergraduate Thesis.

Experience

US. Dept. of Education GAANN Fellow, UConn

Computer Architecture Design and Security.
Multicore Architecture Security.
Secure Hardware-Software Architectures for Trusted Computing.
Energy Efficient Computing.

January 2014 - present

Research Assistant, Analog and Mixed Signal Research Group Lab

July 2011 - present
(AMSG Lab) NUST-SEECS
Wavelet Packet Transform Architectures for Neural Signal Analysis (Spike Detection and Feature
Extraction Algorithms).
Area/Power/Throughput efficient Lifting based Architectures for the Wavelet Packet Transform.
Low cost Architecture research for Infrared and Photoacoustic spectroscopic systems.
Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) based architecture design for ECG and EEG signal analysis.
Design and Implementation of a Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitor using hybrid spectroscopic methods.
Intern, Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE)
G-5, Islamabad, Pakistan
Throughput based Optimizations for Pipeleined AES Architectures.
Teaching Assistant, NUST-SEECS
Complex Variables and Transforms.

July 2012 - August 2012

Fall 2011

Academic
Projects

UG. Senior Year Project: A Portable Non-invasive Blood Glucose Monitor

Design and Implementation of a Low Cost and Portable Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitor using Hybrid
Infrared and Photo-acoustic Spectroscopy to ensure easy and fast monitoring of blood sugar levels.
1st Prize, Finding Innovtive and Creative Solutions (FICS), NUST-SEECS, May 2013
1st Prize, 12th Computer Project Exhibition and Competition (COMPPEC), NUST-EME, June 2013
Project fully funded from the National ICT R & D Fund, Pakistan
Semester Projects
A Hybrid Dynamo and Solar based Hybrid Bicycle Charger with overheat protection.
Design and Layout of an Operational Trans conductance Amplifier in Cadence Virtuoso.
Implementation of an 8 bit Programmable Processor in Verilog HDL.
Design of a Wavelet Packet Speech Processor using Verilog HDL on an FPGA.
Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) based Tissue thickness, and Blood Oxygen Measurement.
A Power-Throughput Efficient Lifting Wavelet Packet Architecture.
A FPGA based Microelectrode Neural Signal Processor.

Honors and
Achievements

Development and
Technical Skills

US. Dept. of Education GAANN Fellowship, 2014-2017.

NUST Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, 2009-2013.
National Benevolent Fund Scholarship, 2009-2013
The City School A Levels Scholarship. 2007-2009.
Languages:

C/C++, Verilog, CUDA, SystemVerilog, LaTeX, R(Statistical Language), and

Java.

Softwares:

MATLAB/Simulink, Multisim/SPICE, Cadence Virtuoso/Allegro, Xilinx

ISE/Power Esitmator/ISIM/EDK, Modelsim, Altium Designer, Proteus, and
PSoC Creator.

Technical/Interests:

Wavelet Analysis for Compression, De-noising, and Optimal hardware selection,

Signal Compression and Encryption, Neural/Spike Signal Analysis, Efficiency Optimization in Multicore Computing, Hardware Securiy, Single Dimension Spectroscopy for analyte measurement, Digital Design using Verilog HDL, and FPGA
based Implementation and Optimization of Algorithms.

Independent
Coursework

VLSI Design, NUST-SEECS (did labs separately with my professor).

Community
Involvement

Used to teach Primary School children before during High School Studies.
Conducted free blood oxygen, heart rate, and blood glucose level monitoring camps.

Extracurricular
Activities

Co-Editor IEEE Student Magazine, 2010-2011, 2011-present, Media Head, IEEE.

Commended in the Commonwealth International Essay Competition, 2005.
Painting Masterpiece displayed on the International seminar, The Dialogue of Civilizations, Tehran,
Iran, 2005.
Other activities include watercolor based painting, writing, playing table-tennis, analyzing history,
Cacti collecting, cooking, and E-Gaming.

References

Dr. Awais Mehmood Kamboh (PhD, Michigan State University)

Dr. Rehan Hafiz (PhD, University of Manchester)
Dr. Sarah Shafiq Khan (PhD, University of North Carolina)

awais.kamboh@seecs.edu.pk
rehan.hafiz@seecs.edu.pk
sarah.khan@seecs.edu.pk