Research group, Department of Computer Engineering, CUI Lahore

Embedded Systems and IoT

We work on the design, test and verification of embedded systems and the Internet of Things: making them smaller, faster and less power-hungry, and keeping them secure.

Meet the team See our work

Drive frequency 1×

The fingerprint of a memristor: its current loop pinches at zero and narrows towards the dashed line as the drive gets faster. Dr. Muhammad Naeem Awais builds these devices with printed silver electrodes.

Four layers of research

Stacked the way a printed memristor is built: silver on top, copper at the base.

Cyber SecurityIntrusion detection small enough to run on the IoT devices it protects, from smart thermostats to smart-home hubs.Dr. Abbas Javed, Dr. Muhammad Naeem Awais
Internet of ThingsSmart building controllers, edge machine learning, occupancy detection and air-quality mapping over LoRaWAN.Dr. Abbas Javed
Embedded SystemsHardware and software for embedded control, from motor drives and inverters to home automation, designed for area, speed and power.Mr. Muhammad Usman Rafique, Ms. Wajeeha Khan
System on ChipMemristor devices and memristor-transistor circuits: memory cells, arithmetic units and FPGAs.Dr. Muhammad Naeem Awais, Mr. Muhammad Usman

The team

Full profiles and supervised theses

Dr. Muhammad Naeem Awais
Group lead. Head of Department and Associate Professor
Memristors and resistive switching devices, printed electronics, electrohydrodynamic printing, embedded systems
Dr. Abbas Javed
Tenured Associate Professor
IoT and IoT security, machine learning, building energy management, air quality, low power wide area networks
Mr. Muhammad Usman Rafique
Assistant Professor
Embedded hardware and software design, embedded control of high-power AC/DC circuits
Mr. Muhammad Usman
Lecturer
Nano electronics, embedded systems
Mr. Syed Junaid Akhtar
Lecturer
Ms. Wajeeha Khan
Lecturer, on leave
Embedded systems and computer architecture

54 papers and 2 patents

Published by members of the group from 2011 to 2026, as listed on their CUI profiles.

Journal papers, 41Conference papers, 13Lines every 3 papers

Latest papers

Fabrication and modeling of low-cost biomemristor based on Ag/Aloe vera/Cu structureJournal of the Korean Physical Society, 2026
Enhancing thermal comfort and sustainability in building energy management through edge machine learning-enabled smart controllersJournal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 2025
Embedding tree-based intrusion detection system in smart thermostats for enhanced IoT securitySensors, 2024
Implementation of lightweight machine learning-based intrusion detection system on IoT devices of smart homesFuture Internet, 2024

All publications

Funded project

Real time air pollution mapping using LoRaWAN

HEC, PKR 415,000, 2019 to 2020. Led by Dr. Abbas Javed with Dr. Saleem Akhtar. Completed.

Patents

Control device and method for buildings
EP3025099B1, 2018. Dr. Abbas Javed

OLED device for both-sides display
Patent no. 1020130072165, 2014. Dr. Muhammad Naeem Awais

Theses supervised

Eight MS and PhD theses under Dr. Awais, most on memristor circuits, including area efficient design of memristor based SRAM cell for cache memory (2022) and a versatile modeling of memristor for digital design applications (PhD, 2023).

Projects and theses

Contact

For research collaboration, MS and PhD supervision or final year projects, write to the group lead through the CUI message portal.

Message Dr. Muhammad Naeem Awais

Department of Computer Engineering
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
1.5 KM Defence Road, Off Raiwind Road, Lahore

+92 (42) 111-001-007