Saad is a co-founder of Ati Motors, an autonomous vehicle startup based in Bangalore. At 14, Saad is one of the youngest engineers in the country. His interests vary from Computer Architecture, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Aerospace Engineering to name a few.
As an intern at the Robert Bosch Center for Cyber Physical Systems @ IISC he was member of the team that was 1st Runner up at the IESA and IoTBLR Connected Device Makeathon, where they built a sensing device for prosthetics. This project has also been shortlisted by the ICRC for further development.
He was a Broadcom Masters International Delegate from India to the US twice. He has been a winner at the Intel IRIS Science Fair 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016.
His project on tiled processors won him the Sam Pitroda Award for Research and Creativeness as the best project of the fair.
Saad is self taught and home schooled. He has been doing online courses since the age of 10 and completed numerous MOOC’s on edX, Coursera and Udacity.
He has given talks on Blockchain technology at various forums like the Cisco Launchpad, Zinnov Confluence 2016 and at Broadridge.
Saad has worked with Team Indus. He is a Young Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.