yahia
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Electrical & Biomedical Engineering
I’m a fourth-year Electrical & Biomedical Engineering student at McMaster, and my path into engineering started with a simple belief: technology should be in service of people and communities, especially those who need it most.1
That belief has shaped everything I’ve worked on: seizure-detection systems that automate emergency response, a wearable overdose-response device built for Hamilton’s opioid crisis, and assistive musical instruments for hospital patients with limited mobility, one of which is now permanently installed at a children’s hospice in Ottawa. These projects have shaped how I think about what engineering is for.
Available for Fall 2026 co-op, Biomedical / Electrical Engineering, starting September 2026. Get in touch →
- Patients, mostly: people in hospices and hospitals. See Space Palette Lite and SymphoSolids. ↩
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Automated Narcan Dispenser
Wearable · Embedded
A wearable overdose-response device that detects respiratory arrest and delivers naloxone on its own.
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3D LiDAR Room Mapping System
Embedded · DSP
A scanning rig that reconstructs a room in three dimensions from raw time-of-flight data.
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SymphoSolids
IoT Wearable · BLE-MIDI
Wearable instruments that turn motion into music, one now installed at an Ottawa children’s hospice.