Mushfiqur Rahman Saad
Engineer, Designer & Activist
Hello World!
Who Am I?
I’m Mushfiqur Rahman Saad an engineer, designer and activist passionate about centering Artificial Intelligence in community action.
With a background in computer vision, engineering, and human-centered design, I adopt a frugal innovation approach to drive community action.
Currently, I am exploring ways to advance computer vision-enabled environmental and community projects using open-source platforms and networks.
Currently, I am a researcher and postgraduate student at the Wireless Research@UKM lab at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, where I am working on developing the world’s largest AI-enabled plastic waste dataset through citizen science collaboration. I am also the co-founder and design lead for human centered design at Wizkit, working on education design and frugal design applications.
Formerly, I founded and led multiple community action organizations focused on designing projects centered around environmental innovation, crowdsourced science, and art.
Education
2022-2025 - M.Sc Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Supervisors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nor Fadzilah Abdullah, Dr. Asma ‘ Binti Abu Samah, Prof. Ir Rosdiadee Nordin
2016-2021 - B.Sc Independent University Bangladesh (IUB)
Supervisors: Dr. Md. Abdur Razzak
Computer Vision Research
ML^2
Machine Learning for Mitigating Litter
My Research focuses on building a large-scale deployable computer vision model to help track and monitor plastic waste. As part of my postgraduate research, I used citizen science engagement to build the world's largest plastic waste dataset hosting over 14,000 annotated images captured using my web application.
My Projects
