Mohammad Sahal: Research Experience

BCI Research Assistant
April 2019 to Present
Philadelphia, Pennsyvania, United States

Developing an interface for communication, environmental control and interfacing with a smart home for patients diagnosed with ALS (Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis)
Supervised designing, modeling and development of an AR interface in Unity and OpenVibe for a comfortable user experience
Tested new VR/AR headsets like DreamWorld DreamGlass and HTC Vive running the interface to improve user experience
Linked Google Assistant to the AR interface for environmental control using gRPC and Protobuf in Python
Used real-time and recorded EEG signal data from ERP based Unicorn EEG and SSVEP based MindAffect to run the AR interface
Combined different processing components on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ board to reduce system size and increase portability
Used Trello for agile software development integrated with Github for version control and Microsoft Teams for team management.
Lead a team of 4 engineers in the research collaborating with a team of 6 doctors and 3 start-ups

Analysed the effect of increasing salt (NaCl) concentration on fresh water(tap water)
Guided a team of 5 high school students to design scientific protocols and conduct experiments
Collaborated with a team of 4 fellow Drexel instructors

Modeled 3-D structure of anti-cancer enzyme, L.asparaginase, from different pathogens using Chimera and PyMOL
Collaborated with a specialized research team of 2 other researchers
Simulated the nature of L.aspraginase in solutions

Inspected ABC, an industrial strength verification tool for logic synthesis and formal verification
Studied ASAP scheduling algorithm
Wrote an ASAP style scheduling of XAIG graphs obtained from ABC