FIG. 01
PPG glucose estimation
Glucose Without a Needle
Blood glucose from optical PPG signals: multi-domain features, RReliefF selection, bagged-tree regression.
8.92mg/dL RMSE
Embedded systems · Edge AI · Medical wearables
Muhammad Kaif
I build medical wearables from sensor to firmware to model, and lead the teams that ship them.
NowEmbedded Systems Engineer at ChipMango; training teachers in Mirpur remotely.
- domains
- 7
- projects delivered
- 23+
- engineers led
- 12
- grants secured
- $19,500+
- events organised
- 70+
Affiliations
Selected work
Selected work
Four builds that show the range, from a needle-free glucose model to a solar-powered classroom.
FIG. 02
On-sensor fall detection
A Wristband That Knows When You Fall
STM32 + IMU wristband; decision-tree-tuned rules run on the sensor's on-chip FSM.
85%detection accuracy
FIG. 03
Telecom site monitoring
Cell Towers That Report Their Own Health
ESP32 + Raspberry Pi CM controller: Modbus RTU sensors, MQTT telemetry, ML tower-health regression.
8site signals monitored
FIG. 04
Solar smart classrooms
Sunlight Into Classrooms
Co-PI: solar-powered computer lab and ICT teacher training, funded by IEEE Tech4Good.
$9,940IEEE Tech4Good grant
Expertise
Seven channels
One engineer across the whole stack. Open a channel to see what it covers.
Covers
- MCU firmware (STM32, ESP32/S3, ESP8266, nRF via Zephyr, CH32, Teensy, Arduino)
- RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr)
- Drivers and peripherals (UART, SPI, I2C, I2S, CAN, MIPI, DMA)
- Motors and actuators (DC, servo, stepper, encoder), load cells, relays
- Displays and lighting (OLED, TFT, LCD, Nextion, RGB LED strips)
- Low-power design and power profiling
- Bootloaders and OTA updates
- Hardware bring-up and debugging
Covers
- ECG / PPG / IMU acquisition
- On-sensor motion intelligence (IMU FSM)
- sEMG decoding
- Lung-sound analysis
- Physiological features (MFCC, GTCC, EMD, DWT)
Covers
- On-device inference (RKNN, TFLite Micro, STM32Cube.AI, Edge Impulse, ONNX)
- Edge AI hardware (NVIDIA Jetson Nano and Orin, Rockchip NPUs, Raspberry Pi)
- Computer vision and CNNs
- LLMs and RAG on edge (RKLLM)
- Classical ML (ensembles, decision trees, QDA, regression)
- Generative AI and diffusion models
Covers
- BLE (GATT services, provisioning, streaming, BLE Audio, Mesh, PAwR)
- Wi-Fi, MQTT, WebSocket, REST/JSON
- LoRa
- OTA updates over BLE and Wi-Fi
- Industrial buses (Modbus RTU, RS-485, CAN)
- Cloud monitoring and dashboards
Covers
- PCB design and schematic review
- Sensor interfacing (ultrasonic, motion, flow, temperature, humidity, pressure, IR, LDR, RFID, touch, Hall-effect, current and voltage)
- Analog IC design (Cadence Virtuoso)
- FPGA (Verilog, Vivado)
- Circuit diagrams, lab instrumentation and prototyping
Covers
- End-to-end product delivery
- Team leadership and training (12 engineers across roles)
- Client and stakeholder management
- Requirements to specifications
- Recruitment, procurement and vendor management
- B2B business development and proposals
Covers
- Grant writing and fundraising
- Digital-literacy and teacher training
- STEM outreach
- Event organisation (70+ events)
- Volunteer leadership
Journey
Journey
Recent roles
Embedded Systems Engineer
ChipMangoAug 2026 – Present
Technical Project Manager✓ Promoted
Geocell CanadaNov 2025 – Jul 2026
Firmware Team Lead✓ Promoted
MachaDev EngineeringJun 2025 – Nov 2025
Leadership
General Secretary, IEEE PES/PELS Joint Chapter
Jun 2025 – Present
General Secretary, IEEE SIGHT
Jun 2025 – Present
President, IEEE CTSoc, SPS & EMBS Student Chapters
May 2024 – May 2025
Awards
- 2025IEEE PES Outstanding Volunteer Award
- 2025Best Technical Professional Chapter Award, IEEE Islamabad Section (IEEE PES/PELS Joint Chapter)
- 2024Best Technical Student Chapter Award, IEEE Islamabad Section (IEEE CTSoc Student Chapter, UET Taxila)