
Ahmed Awad
Ahmed finished his MSc at the iStudio, Queen’s School of Computing in 2024. He was exploring the use of fabric-based sensors and e-textile PCBs to improve everyday things’ accessibility. Ahmed has a Bachelor of Nanotechnology and Engineering from Zeweil City University. After he finished his Masters thesis at iStudio, he is now a Senior ASIC Digital Design Engineer at Synopsys Inc.
Publications
Woven Circuits: A 3-Step Fabrication Process for Weaving Electric Circuit Layouts in Everyday Artefacts Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS’25), Funchal, Portugal, 2025, ISBN: 979-8-4007-1485.
Hand Spinning E-textile Yarns: Understanding the Craft Practices of Hand Spinners and Workshop Explorations with E-textile Fibers and Materials Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, pp. 1–19, Association for Computing Machinery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024, ISBN: 9798400705830.
Integrating e-Threads: Properties of Conductive Threads for Electrical Connectivity Using Computational Weaving of Smart Textiles Proceedings Article
In: 2024 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), pp. 643–647, IEEE 2024.