During his Ph.D., he worked on building a trusted time architecture for networked cyber-physical systems, involving diversifying clock sources and leveraging commodity hardware-based trusted execution environments. Before joining UMass, he worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at PackageX and VisionX in Pakistan, contributing to the development of an “address extraction and parsing” technology for mail package labels in over 10 languages, and was involved in the research and development of an Optical Music Recognition (OMR) system.
Education
Earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at NUST, Pakistan in 2017; currently a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst, working under the supervision of Prof. Fatima Anwar.
Background
Interested in designing trustworthy system software, particularly applications and OS services supported by secure primitives in trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as ARM TrustZone. Also passionate about embedded systems and sensor networks, which power critical cyber-physical infrastructure.
Miscellany
Enjoys spending time in nature, especially hiking and exploring mountainous areas. Likes learning about a wide range of topics online, from astronomy to history, and is fascinated by feline behavior — often through watching cat videos. Occasionally unwinds by watching cricket.