Ahmed Hafeez Hussain

I build embedded systems for spacecraft, radios, and other hardware.

I'm an embedded / avionics engineer at BESXAR in Washington, DC. My work spans flight firmware, FPGA/DSP systems, RF, electronics, and test.

About

I like working close to the hardware, especially on systems where software, electronics, and the physical environment all matter.

Before BESXAR, I worked on embedded DSP and RF systems at Johns Hopkins APL and battery-management firmware at Tesla. I studied electrical and computer engineering at UVA and later completed an M.S. in ECE at Johns Hopkins.

Earlier work included wireless communications research, FPGA / SoC systems, quantum error-correction simulation, machine learning, and electrical leadership for UVA's Solar Car Team.

Selected work

A few projects and research efforts representative of what I work on.

Flight hardware · 2026—

BESXAR avionics

Embedded flight software, sensor and data acquisition, onboard storage, electronics integration, PCB bring-up, and environmental test for space-manufacturing hardware.

Wireless research · UVA

Unsupervised wireless detection

Physical-layer detection research using synchronized SDR hardware, canonical correlation analysis, MIMO experiments, MATLAB, and GNU Radio.

paper code UVA
Media provenance · 2021

Peregrine: Deepfake Detection

A decentralized media-authentication prototype using perceptual hashing, distributed ledgers, peer-to-peer verification, and machine learning. First place in the iDISPLA University Adversarial AI/ML Challenge.

code UVA radio
FPGA / Linux

Zynq software-defined radio

A Linux-based SDR combining a custom programmable-logic DSP chain, AXI transport, host-side C software, and real-time IQ streaming over gigabit Ethernet.

Research

Peer-reviewed work in wireless communications and signal processing.

Public record

A compact index of public profiles, institutional records, press, research, and code associated with my work.

Profiles
Institutional records & press
Research records