At Bitqan Systems Design I take connected products from an idea to something you can manufacture: electronics, PCB, firmware, RF and enclosure. I work with companies that have a prototype or a research result and need a route to volume production: simpler designs, boards a factory can build, and protection against cloning once the product is out in the market.

I am interested in RF localization, GNSS security, acoustics, hardware and embedded software security, protocols, and security projects around mobile devices and the Internet of Things.

Before founding Bitqan I built and led the Signals, Electronics and Acoustics group at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, working on real-time GNSS jammer and spoofer localization, acoustic localization with microphone arrays, and underwater communications.

Before TII I led the Arm Research Security group, working on IoT security that allows embedded devices to detect and remotely recover from attacks or malware infection. An earlier project there was Arm mbed uVisor, a secure hypervisor that enforces hardware security boundaries between embedded software components using the memory protection unit on Cortex-M3 and M4 microcontrollers.

I have co-founded open hardware projects like OpenBeacon.org and OpenPCD.org, and designed the first open active RFID reader hardware to enable research on human interaction and the spread of disease as part of SocioPatterns.org. My open OpenPCD RFID reader and sniffer designs, aimed at security researchers, were used to break MIFARE Classic security.

I had fun breaking the security of HID's iCLASS readers and cards, to make a point about security by obscurity and about how security researchers get treated. As one of three maintainers of the former Xbox-Linux project I helped break the Xbox security in 2002 and ported the first Linux system to the console.

I enjoy designing secure ultra-low-power wireless devices with privacy-preserving protocols and services.I am interested in RF localization, GNSS security, acoustics, hardware and embedded software security, protocols, and security projects around mobile devices and the Internet of Things.

Before founding Bitqan I built and led the Signals, Electronics and Acoustics group at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, working on real-time GNSS jammer and spoofer localization, acoustic localization with microphone arrays, and underwater communications.

Before TII I led the Arm Research Security group, working on IoT security that allows embedded devices to detect and remotely recover from attacks or malware infection. An earlier project there was Arm mbed uVisor, a secure hypervisor that enforces hardware security boundaries between embedded software components using the memory protection unit on Cortex-M3 and M4 microcontrollers.