Sayed Saad Afzal
Research Assistant
afzals@mit.edu
Sayed Saad Afzal is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pursuing a Ph.D. in computer systems, networks, and artificial intelligence. He is working as a research assistant in the Signal Kinetics Lab. His work focuses on underwater backscatter systems and developing low-cost, low-power and scalable underwater distributed sensor networks.
Research Interests
Ocean IoT, Environmental sensing using wireless signals, Computer networks, and Low-power backscatter communication
Ocean IoT
B.S. 2018 LUMS
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Research Originality Award – J-WAFS World Water Day Video Competition (2021)
Ocean Observing Prize, MIT (2020)
US National Academies Ocean Decades selects our work as an Ocean-Shot for this decade (2020)
NMF Gold Medalist in BS Electrical Engineering, LUMS (2018)
Dean’s Honor List Award, LUMS (2014-2018)
Publications
Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning and Inference in Underwater Environments
ACM HotMobile ’22
Yuchen Zhao, Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, Fan Mo, David Boyle, Fadel Adib and Hamed Haddadi
Underwater Backscatter Localization: Toward a Battery-Free Underwater GPS
IEEE/MTS Oceans ’20
Sayed Saad Afzal, Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Waleed Akbar, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
Ultra-Wideband Underwater Backscatter via Piezoelectric Metamaterials
ACM SigCOMM ’20
Reza Ghaffarivardavagh, Sayed Saad Afzal, Osvy Rodriguez, and Fadel Adib
