Profile

Muhammad Awais Bin Altaf (S’11–M’16) received the B.S. degree from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2008, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in microsystems engineering and interdisciplinary engineering from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 2012 and 2016, respectively.

From 2012 to 2013, he was a Digital Design Engineer Intern at Design Solutions, Global Foundries, Dresden, Germany, where he was involved in the implementation of digital test chips in support of 20 and 14 nm technologies. In 2015, he was an exchange-Ph.D. student with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. During his stay at MIST, he developed an energy efficient machine-learning based feature extraction and classification processor for epileptic seizure detection. Since 2016, he has been with the Electrical Engineering Department, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include physiological signal monitoring, breast cancer detection, and the development of low-power mixed-signal circuits for the wearable and implantable medical applications.