Hi, I'm Ahbab Siddiquee.

I build hardware and software around how people and machines perceive.

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Two-part figure. Top: a quadruped robot sees an object, then misses it several times behind an occluder, so did the object leave or is it just hidden? Bottom: a plot where Thinning cuts the penalty IID pays for bunched misses by about 2 NLL, at a small cost on scattered misses
Robotics · ICASSP 2027, under review

Object persistence under correlated RGB‑D misses

A robot's camera keeps missing an object. Is it gone, or just hidden? How persistence filters should count repeated misses.

COPHEE Lab logo
Mobile sensing · COPHEE Lab, in progress

Sensing attention on mobile devices

Using a phone's built-in sensors to understand how people read and interact with what's on screen.

Wi-Fi Doppler spectrogram during a fall, with the detected start, peak and end marked
Wireless sensing · Capstone, in progress

Fall detection from Wi-Fi Doppler

Detecting falls from the Doppler shifts a falling body leaves in Wi-Fi signals, with no camera, wearable or trained model.

Flowchart of the Unity dataset pipeline: camera and object setup, randomization, capture and labeling, ending in 1,500 images across 22 classes in COCO format
Robotics · CoRL 2026, under review

SCOUT: open-vocabulary detection on mobile robots

Choosing object detectors for mobile robots by whether they can actually drive the robot, not by benchmark accuracy alone.

View inside the VR exhibition: two controllers hold up scanned stone artifacts beside display pedestals in a classical gallery hall
Virtual reality · NYU Abu Dhabi, 2025

Archaeological VR exhibition

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

Diagram of foveated Gaussian splatting: around an orange gaze point the splats are small and dense, and they grow larger, sparser and softer toward the edges of vision
Graphics · NYU Tandon, 2026

Perception-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting

Foveated 3D reconstruction and rendering for VR and AR, spending detail where the eye actually looks.

Projects

FallGuard: privacy-first fall detection for elderly care. No cameras, no wearables. Just Wi-Fi.
Hackathon · Tech@NYU Shipyard, 2026

FallGuard: Wi-Fi fall detection

Fall detection from Wi-Fi signals, built at the Tech@NYU Shipyard hackathon. Winner of DigitalOcean Best Open-Source AI Project.

A round Circuit Playground board with a built-in accelerometer, plugged in by USB on a lab bench
Embedded systems · NYU Tandon, Spring 2026

KinetiKey: a gesture combination lock

A combination lock you open with motion: three gestures in the right order, sensed by a single board.

The finished blue ECG circuit board, with two coin-cell battery holders, jumpers and small surface-mount parts
Analog hardware · NYU Abu Dhabi, Fall 2025

ECG acquisition system

A wearable ECG taken from breadboard to a custom PCB, with its own analog front end and noise filtering.

CAD render of the Prodigy exoskeleton: a jointed, segmented spine piece rising from a waist band
Soft robotics · KUEC Robothon, 2025

Prodigy: soft robotic rehabilitation

A cable-driven soft exoskeleton for kyphosis rehab, modeled in SolidWorks. KUEC Robothon runner-up.

The small white Pupper quadruped, with pink cables and a screen face showing green eyes, standing on a table at sunset
Robotics · NYU Tandon, Spring 2026

Pupper: teaching a quadruped to walk

From hand-tuned joint control to a gait learned with reinforcement learning, running on a real 12-motor quadruped.

Side view of the two-level wheeled robot: a lidar on top, boards and wiring between clear acrylic plates, and blue wheels
Robotics · NYU Tandon, Spring 2026

Autonomous indoor navigation with LiDAR and AprilTags

A small robot that maps a corridor, registers AprilTags as landmarks, and drives itself to the one you pick.

Macro photo of the ESP32 chip soldered onto a black circuit board
Embedded hardware · NYU Abu Dhabi, 2024

Off-grid ESP32 unit

A solar-powered microcontroller system with a custom PCB and a waterproof 3D-printed enclosure.

Black-and-white illustration of two figures walking into a vast maze
VR game · NYU Abu Dhabi, Fall 2023

Maze Walker

A VR maze game for the Meta Quest 2 with a new procedurally generated maze every run and a riddle-guarded shortcut.

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About

I work on how people and machines perceive.

I'm Ahbab, an electrical engineering student at NYU. I build hardware and software that let technology sense and respond to people, drawing on experience in wearables, robot perception, and VR. I'm working toward graduate study in HCI.

I grew up in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and take photos and make Blender renders when I'm not in the lab. You can see a few here.

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Ahbab Siddiquee