About me.

I am pursuing my Master's in Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, expecting to graduate in May 2026. I finished my Electrical & Computer Engineering degree at Rutgers University a year ahead of schedule in May 2025.

I am a natural problem solver. If one philosophy were to represent me, it would be the latin phrase "cogito facio", translating as "I think, I make." I love building things. Thank you for stopping by in my corner of the internet. I hope that one of my projects may be useful to you!

Highlighted Projects

Unmanned Wireless Pen-Testing Device – award-winning senior capstone that automates network reconnaissance from a UAV.
News Sentiment Embeddings for Stock Forecasting – NLP model predicting daily market movement from financial-news vectors.
FFT-on-FPGA Learning Tool – hand-coded Verilog FFT core and interactive demo; published at IEEE ISEC 2025.
Rutgers IEEE Micromouse – C++ maze-solver that cut lap time 3× and won 1st place at NYIT 2024.
GPT-Based Cuisine Recommender – server/client chatbot that tailors meal ideas from pantry inventories.
Facial-Recognition Album Maker – desktop app grouping photos by face with 90 % accuracy.
mmWave Radar for Search-&-Rescue UAVs – edge-AI pipeline for survivor detection on a 60 GHz FMCW array.

Ayaan Qayyum

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Highlighted Projects