Yaman Kalaji
Research Assistant at UCL
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYaman Kalaji is an IoT-focused researcher and PhD candidate at UCL with 12 years of engineering and startup experience spanning embedded systems, mobile apps, and connected environments. At the Connected Environments Lab he applies sensor networks and AI/ML to healthcare and built‑environment challenges—from patient flow monitoring at NHS Moorfields to NetZero strategies for operating theatres and a Digital Twin platform for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. A serial co-founder and former CTO, he blends hands-on firmware and BLE expertise (including battery-less tag solutions) with systems architecture and product leadership. He also teaches optimisation and filtering techniques for robotics students, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and practical deployment experience. Notably, his open-source baremetal MCU work targets resource-constrained communities, underscoring a persistent focus on scalable, low-cost IoT.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Aleppo UniversityUniversity College London
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (22)
kiosk10
ime9
ios9
virtual-keyboard9
keyboard-events9
macos9
swift9
uinput9
input-method8
keyboard-layout8
objective-c8
keyboard7
xcode7
cocoapods7
carthage6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
syk-yaman/plantemoji
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:186 commits, 123 pushes, 4 branches in 5 months
syk-yaman/smart-led
Apr 2018 - Sep 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 5 months
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