Sajad Raad
سجاد رعد · Mechatronics Engineering Student & Developer
Mechatronics Engineering Department · University of Basrah · Team Zenith
01 / Academic Background & Campus Projects
Deepening core mechatronics specialization across advanced microprocessors, classical and digital control theory, robotics dynamics, power electronics, and autonomous cyber-physical systems.
- Academic Platform Monorepo (Mecha-Bot): Engineered complete Stage 1-4 curriculum index, Telegram bot workflows, and scheduling engine with automated CI test coverage.
- Third-Stage Applied Engineering Lab: Developing embedded microprocessors, feedback control implementations, and power electronics drive circuits at the University of Basrah.
Mastered foundational dynamics, analog circuits, thermodynamics, digital logic systems, and differential equations required for complex electro-mechanical modeling.
- National AI Competition (NURAI 2026 — Summer Break Post-Stage 2, August 2026): Active Team Member in Team Zenith (عضو في فريق Zenith – جامعة البصرة) developing ARIA NEXUS during the summer holiday before commencing Stage 3 (Certificate #11143e3985089de9116ff664, awarded 'Good' evaluation rating from the Ministerial Judging Committee).
- University of Basrah Stage 2 Engineering Projects: Active design and breadboard implementation of sequential digital circuits, op-amp signal conditioning, and electro-mechanical motor driving prototypes, with laboratory logging in Microsoft Excel.
- University of Basrah at Al-Zubair (جامعة البصرة بالزبير): Active technical participation in applied engineering workshops, academic project showcases, and student collaborative initiatives hosted at the Al-Zubair campus site.
Established foundational mathematical rigor, physical principles, engineering drawing, and computer applications.
- University of Basrah Stage 1 Engineering Projects: Participated in first-year engineering team projects, DC/AC circuit verification, and technical engineering reports authored in Microsoft Word with data analysis and charting in Microsoft Excel.
02 / National Competitions & Ministerial Honors
Awarded by the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research for active contribution as a Team Member in Team Zenith (عضو في فريق Zenith – جامعة البصرة) developing ARIA NEXUS, a completely offline bilingual (Arabic/English) voice AI assistant on constrained edge hardware.
03 / Selected Engineering Systems & Software
An end-to-end cyber defense research system combining Deep Autoencoder reconstruction for zero-day network anomaly scoring, XGBoost multi-vector classification, and an automated OS firewall controller with durable TTL rollback receipts.
A modular TypeScript monorepo providing high-performance asynchronous Telegram bot pipelines, interactive Telegram Mini-Apps (TMA), full-curriculum information retrieval, and dynamic scheduling for the Mechatronics Department at the University of Basrah, validated with 582 automated CI tests.
An autonomous, completely offline bilingual (Arabic & English) voice AI assistant engineered for constrained edge hardware. Developed during the summer break following Stage 2 (August 2026) within Team Zenith (University of Basrah) and awarded 'Good' evaluation by the Ministerial Judging Committee at the National NURAI 2026 Competition.
A modern Android audio player and digital signal processing laboratory engineered in Kotlin 2.0 and Jetpack Compose. Features custom low-allocation PCM stream processing with parametric EQ, 8D binaural spatial orbit, real-time 64-band FFT spectrum tapping, synchronized LRC lyrics, and offline two-stem neural separation.
A rigorous suite of laboratory engineering work analyzing high-speed power MOSFET switching dynamics, microprocessor register-level architecture (8086), and multiphysics finite-element electromagnetic modeling.
04 / Technical Competencies & Engineering Tools
Real-Time & Systems Engineering
- ›Python 3.12 (Asyncio / Multiprocessing): Asynchronous task loops, multi-worker process synchronization, Cython bindings, and socket listeners.
- ›8086 Assembly & Microprocessor Systems: Register operations, interrupt service routines (ISRs), memory-mapped I/O, and timing control.
- ›Linux / Windows Systems Programming: OS firewall automation (netsh / iptables), process signals, SQLite WAL journaling, and network socket management.
- ›Git & Version Control Hygiene: Public repository management, branch hygiene, provenance tracking, clean commit discipline, and GitHub Actions CI.
Machine Learning, Edge AI & Cyber Defense
- ›PyTorch Deep Autoencoders: Unsupervised representation learning, reconstruction loss evaluation, and custom loss thresholds.
- ›On-Device Edge AI & Bilingual Voice Processing: Offline speech-to-text (STT), quantized acoustic models, local intent parsing, edge hardware inference, and Arabic/English voice synthesis developed with Team Zenith.
- ›XGBoost & Tabular ML Classifiers: Multi-class classification, hyperparameter tuning, feature importance scoring, and train-serve alignment.
- ›Network Traffic Analysis & Forensics: Suricata flow logs, packet header inspection, mitmproxy hooks, and OAuth device grant replay mitigation.
Telegram Bot Systems & Software Development
- ›Asynchronous Telegram Bot Development: High-throughput asynchronous bot pipelines (aiogram / grammY), webhook ingress, stateful session machines, rate-limiting, and flood-wait backoff.
- ›Telegram Mini-Apps & Edge Workers: Telegram WebApp SDK integration, custom interactive keyboards, Cloudflare Workers edge execution, and secure user data validation.
- ›TypeScript & Node.js 22: Strict type systems, Turborepo workspaces, pnpm caching, and modular package organization.
- ›FastAPI & Information Retrieval (BM25): In-memory BM25 lexical ranking, Unicode Arabic tokenization, asynchronous REST endpoints, and WebSocket telemetry streams.
Mechatronics, Circuits & Engineering Tools
- ›SPICE Simulation & Circuit Analysis (LTspice): Power MOSFET switching transient analysis, RC snubber network damping, freewheeling flyback suppression, and Proteus logic testing.
- ›Computer Vision & Spatial Geometry (OpenCV / MediaPipe): 3D hand landmark kinematics, anatomical scale-invariant distance metrics, and real-time contactless HMI control.
- ›Microsoft Excel (Engineering & Laboratory Analysis): Laboratory data logging, parametric circuit modeling, statistical error analysis, sensor calibration curve fitting, and mathematical formulas.
- ›Microsoft Word (Technical & Engineering Documentation): Comprehensive engineering laboratory reports, technical specifications, academic documentation standards, structured diagrams, and formal formatting.