Dawood's Portfolio

I’m a computer engineer specializing in hardware security, machine learning, and embedded systems. I’m seeking full‑time roles across software and hardware development.

I hold an M.S. in Computer Engineering from NYU Tandon and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, where I led the first undergraduate ASIC fabrication framework as Design Workflow Lead for a Bitcoin‑mining accelerator. My experience spans hardware security (reverse engineering, power analysis), ML for hardware (quantized DNNs, optimization), embedded systems (STM32, FPGA, ASIC), and software engineering (Android, NLP, full‑stack).

In 2022 I was a Wu Tsai Institute Summer Scholar at Yale University’s Liang Lab, applying convolutional neural networks to identify and segment neurons in visual thalamus imaging.

Software work includes Android multiplayer gaming, NLP pipelines for low‑resource languages (BERT for Urdu sentiment), and full‑stack web apps using Agile practices, GitLab CI/CD, and Mockito testing, including real‑time gaming backends with Spring Boot.

Previously, I was a Network Engineering Intern at PrairieOaks LLC, designing and deploying rural wireless infrastructure in Iowa, then expanding coverage post‑graduation.

I bridge hardware and software and enjoy turning theory into working systems. If the areas of hardware security, ML, embedded, or software align, let’s connect!