Hassan Albalawi
Founder & CEO at WakeCap — construction safety and productivity
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Summary
Founder–operator who turned an academic EEG drowsiness prototype into a commercial construction‑tech company. prnewswire+1
Technical researcher with a strong signal‑processing and low‑power on‑chip machine‑learning background stemming from CMU and Duke graduate work. cmu+2
Product leader scaling wearable IoT and AI solutions for safety and productivity on megaprojects, securing institutional funding and strategic acquisitions. wamda+2
Regional innovation profile and public‑facing communicator — Stars of Science finalist, TEDx speaker, and frequent podcast/interview guest advocating tech for worker safety. prnewswire+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Low-Power Hardware Implementation of Movement Decoding for Brain–Computer Interface
January 1, 2014Conference paper describing a low-power hardware implementation for movement decoding in BCI systems, including efficient feature extraction (reduced-resolution DCT) and dual look-up table architectures to support on-chip classifiers.
CN112085169A — Brain–muscle electrical fusion sensing for orthotic/rehabilitation
Patent describing a brain–muscle electrical fusion sensing approach and autonomous learning methods for rehabilitation exoskeletons and assistive devices, addressing limitations of existing EEG/EMG signal acquisition and interpretation.
Publications and conference papers listed on ResearchGate / ACM
Academic publications and coauthored papers on low-power on-chip machine-learning algorithms (e.g., LDA-FP, SVM-FP, LR-FP) and BCI/movement-decoding topics.