am08402@st.habib.edu.pk
\nI am passionate about hardware verification and RTL design. My RISC-V verification research at Harvey Mudd College solidified my path \u2014 I intend to grow as a chip verification engineer.<\/p>\n
am08402@st.habib.edu.pk
\nahmedmujtaba823@gmail.com
\nwww.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmed-abdullah-mujtaba-1677a5289
\nPortfolio
\nhttps:\/\/portfolio-website-rv7o.bolt.host
\n+923331272798<\/p>\n
Dhanani School of Science and Engineering
\nBS Computer Engineering<\/p>\n
2026
\nC|
\nC#|
\nC++|
\nMatlab|
\nPython|
\nQA|
\nUnreal|
\nUnity|
\nVerilog|
\nDrive for Results; Takes Initiative
\nRTL Verification; SQA, AI; Software Engineer;
\nHigh Academic Leap Scholarship 2024|
\nN\/A
\nSimulation Engineer,
\nWoot Tech
\n(February 2026 \u2013 January 2027)
\n|<\/p>\n
Undergraduate Researcher,
\nHabib University
\n(January \u2013 May 2026)
\n|<\/p>\n
Teaching Assistant,
\nHabib University
\n(August \u2013 December 2025)
\n|<\/p>\n
Teaching Assistant,
\nHabib University
\n(January \u2013 April 2025)
\n|
\nResearch Paper \u2013 Enhancing Campus Safety Education through Immersive Learning: A Constructivist Approach to VR Evacuation Training|
\nLWC VPN for IoT
\nMy Final Year Project involves developing a lightweight VPN for resource-constrained IoT devices (ESP32-class). Standard VPN solutions are too heavy for low-power embedded hardware, leaving IoT deployments vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and data interception.<\/p>\n
Our VPN achieves secure end-to-end communication by combining X25519 ECDH for key exchange, HKDF for session key derivation, and Ascon \u2014 the NIST Lightweight Cryptography winner \u2014 as the symmetric cipher. The aim is to minimize handshake overhead, memory footprint, and power consumption while maintaining strong security guarantees. Findings so far show our solution significantly outperforms traditional VPN stacks on embedded hardware across all three metrics, providing a practical, deployable security layer for real-world IoT networks without expensive hardware upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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