Abdullah Al Rashid Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

* Analytics for enterprise and sovereign cybersecurity risk rating assessment using a variety of data sources* Contributing to a variety of cross-functional teams with focus on product development, feature enhancement, and client support

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Theoretical Development of Photonic Crystal Optical Biosensors:* Ideation, design, testing, and validation of novel conceptual paradigms for optical biosensors using photonic crystals* Computerized simulations using a variety of standard and non-standard tools and techniques* Developing mathematical models for the prediction, validation and interpretation of simulation results* Communicating research results through seminars/presentations, reports and journal publicationsSoftware Apects Associated with the Foregoing:* Simulation code development (C++ & Python) on the SciNet supercomputer cluster* Customizing open-source libraries (e.g. Meep, FFTW) by authoring new classes and functions: developed runtime-parser & geometry-specification front-end; presently developing angle-resolved spectroscopy tools* Testing developed simulation code for validity & API compliance – as well as against test cases derived from Physics constraints* Automation of testing, execution, and data post-processing/analysis through the use of job schedulers and Linux/UNIX shell scriptsFor more details on research, please refer to the following recent publication: A. Al Rashid & S. John, 'Optical Biosensing of Multiple Disease Markers in a Photonic-Band-Gap Lab-on-a-Chip: A Conceptual Paradigm', Phys. Rev. Applied 3, 034001 (2015).

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Mentoring students in self-directed experimental projects to integrate & reinforce concepts taught in classes* Delivering lectures on Computational Physics using Python (NumPy/SciPy) for experimental data analysis* Providing step-by-step guidance to students for writing and debugging data analysis code* Diagnosing and troubleshooting issues on a variety of modern and legacy equipment in the physics laboratory* Evaluating student work on an ongoing basis, adjusting pedagogical methods accordingly, to optimize learning

San Francisco, Ca, Us

* Developed a speech pathology screening tool to aid phoneme-level speech impairment diagnosis using open-source speech data in the Czech language* Performed feature engineering of WAV audio data to train a Random Forest classifier for flagging candidates with potential speech impairment* Offered testing suggestions on flagged patients based on detected outliers relative to unimpaired phoneme pronunciation profiles * Created a web application in Flask as UI for tool; deployed as a Docker container

Santa Clara, California, Us

* Platform security and content protection at the software/firmware levels for a multitude of current and upcoming AMD CPU and APU programs* Applied cryptography for AMD's Platform Security Processor (PSP) program, harnessing frameworks such as AES, RSA, SHA-256, Trustonic TEE, etc. to affect platform-secure boot* Embedded software/firmware development and maintenance -- in the C language -- for current, upcoming, and legacy platforms at AMD* Contribution of code and support for AMD's implementation of and interfaces with a variety of customer-specific platform security products, such as Microsoft Trusted Platform Module (TPM), HP SureStart3, etc.* Collaborative software development within an Agile framework

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Management and maintenance of Corporate Lending application data and associated information processing infrastructure for Oracle, SQL Server and DB2 databases* SME on Corporate Lending data: extraction of Business Intelligence on bonds, derivatives, and FX trades for Accounting, Risk Management, and Reporting* Liaison with a variety of stakeholders – developers, business users (Front and Middle Office), and support teams – for uninterrupted and timely delivery of business-critical data* Coordination of planned and ad hoc changes in compliance with SDLC (Agile) and Change Management (ITIL) protocols; forecasting and mitigating exceptions in emergency and non-emergency situations* Regression and DR Testing of applications: test plans, coordination, and troubleshooting* Automated weekly internal KPI report coordination (via VBA script) and revamped Branch Settlement Report delivery for Montreal Office

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Theoretical Condensed Matter and Photonics/Optics research at the Department of Physics for undergraduate thesis at the Division of Engineering Science:* Modelling of electronic properties of Dilute Magentic Semiconductors, especially GaMnAs.* Ab initio calculations of crystal properties with focus on Mn-impurity-induced changes to the electronic band structure of GaAs.* Simulation code development using Python (NumPy/SciPy).

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Design of capillary microfluidc flow channels for lab-on-a-chip biomedical sensors.* Fluid flow and multi-physics simulations for design validation using a variety of techniques, especially, Finite Elements Method (FEM).

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

* Theoretical studies of phase separation in an ultra-cold boson-fermion condensate in a harmonic trap.* Local density simulations of interaction tuning.* Simulation code development in the C programming language.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical And Mathematical Physics

B.A.Sc., Engineering Science -- Physics

Ontario Secondary School Diploma (Ossd), High School

Gce O-Levels