Ahbab Siddiquee

I build hardware and software around the human body and its senses.

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01Experience design · cultural heritage

Archaeological VR exhibition

Immersive VR for digital exhibitions of archaeological sites and prehistoric rock art across Arabia, with 3D-printed artifact replicas.

UnityXR Interaction ToolkitPhotogrammetryC#
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Archaeological VR exhibition
02Robotics research · CoRL 2026 (under review)

SCOUT: open-vocabulary detection on mobile robots

A robot-aware framework for deploying open-vocabulary detectors on resource-constrained mobile robots, where benchmark accuracy alone doesn't predict whether a model can actually drive the robot.

UnityROS 2Open-vocab detectionJetson
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SCOUT: open-vocabulary detection on mobile robots
03Embedded systems · gesture interface

KinetiKey: a gesture combination lock

An old combination lock reimagined as motion. Three gestures, captured by a single accelerometer, recorded and replayed to unlock a resource.

AdafruitArduinoAccelerometerGesture recognition
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KinetiKey: a gesture combination lock
04Product design · healthcare impact

Prodigy: soft robotic rehabilitation

Cable-driven soft exoskeleton applying corrective forces for kyphosis posture rehabilitation. Robothon runner-up.

SolidWorksSOFASoft robotics
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Prodigy: soft robotic rehabilitation
05Hardware · biomedical

ECG acquisition system

An end-to-end wearable ECG, taken from breadboard prototype to a finished custom PCB with a full analog front end and noise filtering.

AltiumCadenceAnalog designPCB
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ECG acquisition system

About

I'm an electrical engineering student at NYU Abu Dhabi, building at the intersection of hardware, software, and human perception. My projects run from VR exhibitions of archaeological sites to robotics, embedded systems, and biomedical hardware.

What ties them together is the human body and its senses: how people perceive and move through physical and digital space. I like building the whole thing, the circuit, the system, the user study, and the reasoning documented behind each decision.

I grew up in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and I'm working toward graduate study in HCI and immersive computing.

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Available for Fall 2027 programs

Designing interaction for immersive systems.

Designing interaction for immersive systems.

Based in

Abu Dhabi, UAE

From Bangladesh

© 2026 Ahbab Al Mohammad Siddiquee

Electrical Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi · Class of 2027