Adeel Nasrullah

I am a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst, working in the Emerging Embedded Technologies Lab (EmTech Lab), under the supervision of Prof. Fatima Anwar.

I am actively seeking full-time industry opportunities for spring 2025. I am interested in designing trustworthy system software, particularly applications and OS services supported by secure primitives in trusted execution environments (TEEs), such as ARM TrustZone. I am also passionate about embedded systems and sensor networks, which power critical cyber-physical infrastructure. I enjoy solving complex problems and applying the machine learning and signal processing skills I’ve developed throughout my career.

During my Ph.D., I’ve worked on building a trusted time architecture for networked cyber-physical systems. This project involved diversifying clock sources and leveraging commodity hardware-based trusted execution environments.

Before joining UMass, I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at PackageX and VisionX in Pakistan. At PackageX, I contributed to the development of an “address extraction and parsing” technology for mail package labels in over 10 languages, which was deployed across 15+ countries. At VisionX, I was involved in the research and development of an Optical Music Recognition (OMR) system, an image-to-text application designed to process music sheet images.

I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Electrical Engineering from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at NUST, Pakistan in 2017.

Outside of work, I enjoy spending time in nature, especially hiking and exploring mountainous areas. I also like learning about a wide range of topics online, from astronomy to history, and I’m always fascinated by feline behavior —- often through watching cat videos. Occasionally, I unwind by watching cricket.