Dr. Muhammad Ali Siddiqi holds a PhD from Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where his research focused on critical areas of security and privacy pertaining to Implantable Medical Devices (IMDs). He received his B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2009 with the prestigious Presidential Gold Medal. As an Erasmus Mundus Scholar, he completed a joint M.Sc. degree in Embedded Computing Systems from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, and the University of Southampton, UK, in 2012.
Following the completion of his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher for two years at the Quantum and Computer Engineering (QCE) department of the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands. During this tenure, he focused on in-memory computing architectures for lightweight cryptography, next-generation neural implants, and hardware-based brain simulations, employing emerging device technologies like Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM).
From 2012 to 2017, he served as a Design Engineer at Silicon Labs Norway, specializing in ultra-low-power MCU design. Notably, his designed IPs, including the Cryotimer and Protimer, are integral components of the EFM32 and EFR32 32-bit microcontrollers. Before pursuing his master's studies, he dedicated one year as a Research Assistant at LUMS' Computer Science Department, with a particular focus on low-power embedded systems.
Dr. Siddiqi's research interests encompass low-power hardware design, in-memory computing, memristor-based brain simulations, and the security of IMDs and Medical Body Area Networks (MBANs).
| Title | Publication | Author | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| SDK4ED: a platform for building energy efficient, dependable, and maintainable embedded software | Automated Software Engineering | Siavvas M., Tsoukalas D., Marantos C., Papadopoulos L., Lamprakos C., Matei O., Strydis C., Siddiqi M.A., Chrobocinski P., Filus K., Domanska J., Avgeriou P., Ampatzoglou A., Soudris D., Chatzigeorgiou A., Gelenbe E., Kehagias D., Tzovaras D., | 2024 |
| NeuroDots: From Single-Target to Brain-Network Modulation: Why and What Is Needed? | Neuromodulation | De Ridder D., Siddiqi M.A., Dauwels J., Serdijn W.A., Strydis C., | 2024 |
| A Lightweight Architecture for Real-Time Neuronal-Spike Classification | Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2024 | Siddiqi M.A., Vrijenhoek D., Landsmeer L.P.L., Van Der Kleij J., Gebregiorgis A., Romano V., Bishnoi R., Hamdioui S., Strydis C., | 2024 |
| SECURED for Health: Scaling Up Privacy to Enable the Integration of the European Health Data Space | Proceedings -Design, Automation and Test in Europe, DATE | Regazzoni F., Acs G., Aszalos A.Z., Avgerinos C., Bakalos N., Berral J.L., Bos J.W., Brohet M., Sanz A.G.C., Davies G.T., Florescu S., Flory P.-E., Gutierrez-Torre A., Haleplidis E., Heliou A., Ioannidis S., El-Kady A.I., Kapusta K., Karagianni K., Kruizinga P., Maat K., Mann Z.A., Mastoraki K., Moon S., Nisevic M., Pejo B., Papagiannopoulos K., Paliuras V., Palmieri P., Palumbo F., Baun J.C.P., Pollner P., Porta-Pardo E., Pulina L., Siddiqi M.A., Spajic D., Strydis C., Tasopoulos G., Thouvenot V., Tselios C., Fournaris A.P., | 2024 |
| Memristor-Based Lightweight Encryption | Proceedings - 2023 26th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2023 | Siddiqi M.A., Galvan Hernandez J.A., Gebreziorgis A., Bishnoi R., Strydis C., Hamdioui S., Taouil M., | 2023 |
| Improving the Security of the IEEE 802.15.6 Standard for Medical BANs | IEEE Access | Siddiqi M.A., Hahn G., Hamdioui S., Serdijn W.A., Strydis C., | 2022 |
| Zero-Power Defense Done Right: Shielding IMDs from Battery-Depletion Attacks | Journal of Signal Processing Systems | Siddiqi M.A., Serdijn W.A., Strydis C., | 2021 |
| Securing Implantable Medical Devices Using Ultrasound Waves | IEEE Access | Siddiqi M.A., Beurskens R.H.S.H., Kruizinga P., De Zeeuw C.I., Strydis C., | 2021 |
| Adding security to implantable medical devices: Can we afford it? | International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks | Siddiqi M.A., Tsintzira A.-A., Digkas G., Siavvas M., Strydis C., | 2021 |
| IMDfence: Architecting a Secure Protocol for Implantable Medical Devices | IEEE Access | Siddiqi M.A., Doerr C., Strydis C., | 2020 |
| POSTER: IMD Security vs. Energy: Are we tilting at windmills?. | ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2019, CF 2019 - Proceedings | Siddiqi M.A., Strydis C., | 2019 |
| Towards Realistic Battery-DoS Protection of implantable medical devices | ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2019, CF 2019 - Proceedings | Siddiqi M.A., Strydis C., | 2019 |
| Teaching and research in FPGA based digital signal processing using Xilinx system generator | ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings | Athar S., Siddiqi M.A., Masud S., | 2012 |
| Design and FPGA implementation of a 2<sup>nd</sup> order Adaptive Delta Sigma modulator with one bit quantization | Proceedings - 2010 International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2010 | Athar S., Siddiqi M.A., Masud S., | 2010 |
| FPGA-based implementation of efficient sample rate conversion for software defined radios | Proceedings - 10th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, CIT-2010, 7th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS-2010, ScalCom-2010 | Siddiqi M.A., Samad N., Masud S., Sheikh F., | 2010 |