Establishment of Oman Space Engineering Lab at Sultan Qaboos University, (2025- )
Funding: 0.5M USD
Role: Principal Investigator
Establishment of several zones of Space Engineering Lab.
Conduct training and capacity building workshops in space technology.
Spaceborne AI for Land Use and Land Change Applications, (2024- )
Funding: Comany sponsored
Role: SQU Project Lead
Develope AI applications for several Land Use and Land Change use cases
Deploy and validate AI algorithms onboard the spacecraft for in orbit testing.
Train student teams enrolled in the program
A Detailed Feasibility study of Small satellites in Communication, Earth Observation and IoT applications (2024)
Funding: 45k USD
Role: Co Principal Investigator
Consultancy project to external entity
Lead the study and final report.
Investigation and prototyping of Sensor Suites for the Miniature Lunar Exploration Pod (2025): Project No. (RF/ENG/ECED/25/04)
Funding: 8k USD
Role: Principal Investigator
The integration of the sensor suite including magnetic sensors, IMUs, microphones, and mini-cameras; within a compact and lightweight lunar robot.
Wireless power transfer for Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices (2024-2025): Project No. (IG/ENG/ECED/24/02)
Funding: 15k USD
Role: Principal Investigator
We are doing research for wireless charging of Implanted medical devices (IMDs) used in IoMT for patients with medical implants,
Lunar CubeSat Mission onboard ChangE' 6 (2022- 2023)
Funding: 1M USD
Role: Project Co Principal Investigator
As part of opportunity, the IST team developed and launched a I- CubeSat Q from Change'E 6 orbiter as part of opportunity provided to APSCO member states.
Finnish Center of Excellence in Sustainable Space (FORESAIL) (2018-2020): Foresail-1, Foresail-2 and Aalto-3 CubeSat missions.
Role: Project member (Posdoc fellow)
As part of this project, Aalto university, University of Helsinki, University of Turku and FMI and coordinated together to design and launch series of cubesats in LEO and GTO carrying science payload and Electric Plasma Brake for de orbiting. Foresail 1 was successfully launched.
Lead the research studetns on platform design in Aalto university
ESA Future Earth Observation microwave instruments for small satellites (Apr 2018 – 2020)
Role: Team member
In this project. coordinated by Harp Technologies, Aalto took part in mission design and platform for various small-sat missions. .
Low cost standardized platform design for nano-satellites (2019- 2022)
Role: Principal Investigator
A project worth PKR. 9.4 Million, awarded by Higher Education Commission (HEC) under National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) for design and development of low cost small satellite platform
APSCO Student Small Satellite Project (SSS), (2016- 2021) http://www.apsco-sss.com/index_en.cshtml
Role: Subsystem Lead, MS Pakistan
The project worth 3.4 Million USD, funded by Asia Pacific Space Cooperation Organization (APSCO), is the development of one micro-satellite (SSS-1) and two CubeSats (SSS-2A and SSS-2B). The SSS-1 is a 30kg micro-satellite and SSS-2A/2B are both 3U CubeSats. The three satellites will work in a constellation after launch. As part of the team lead, I have successfully implemented the PDR and currently working on implementation of CDR of assigned subsystems.
Pakistan National Student Satellite Program (PNSSP), (2015- 2018)
Role: Principal Investigator
A project initiated by National Space Agency, Pakistan (SUPARCO) for the development of a 30 Kg microsatellite.
Successful implementation of PDR, CDR and EM of Magnetometer, OBC and EPS modules.
AraMiS: Modular Architecture of Nano-satellites (2010-2015)
Role: Team Member
A project performed in Politecnico di Torino, Italy focused on development of necessary subsystems for plug and play satellites using a modular approach based on commercial low cost devices.