Accessible STEM Laboratory

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

An eight-month project through Usrah in Action, a subject run by the Sejahtera Centre of IIUM, where I served as Project Manager.

The problem

Our team proposed a STEM laboratory design for a school serving visually impaired students. The question we kept coming back to: how do you make STEM subjects engaging for students who need a fundamentally different learning environment?

The sensory wall

The centrepiece of the proposed lab is a sensory wall — students explore mechanical, electronic and STEM tools through touch, audio guidance and Braille, rather than through a screen or a whiteboard.

Community service, and why it mattered

We also ran community service activities at the school. Spending time with the students and teachers changed how we understood the space we were designing for. It’s the part I’d point to first: the best solutions came from understanding the people who would actually use them, not from what we assumed they needed.

Managing it taught me a different set of skills than I’m used to — coordinating a diverse team, handling things that went sideways, and keeping everyone moving toward the same goal.

Outcome

Gold Award at the project symposium.

Context-Aware IDPS for Web Servers

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Automated Context-Aware Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDPS) for Web Servers — my Final Year Project, built with Mohammad Danish Hakim bin Mohd Nasir.

The idea

Most detection systems decide whether a request is malicious by looking at the request. This project adds context — what else is happening around that request — so prevention decisions are based on more than a signature match in isolation.

What FYP 1 covered

The first phase was mostly research: a literature review of how current industry detection and prevention systems actually work, and a study of real-world attack patterns against web servers.

Danish and I picked this deliberately to stretch ourselves. We had both done CTFs and built things before, but reading how production IDS/IPS deployments handle detection, tuning and false positives made it clear how much of this field we had only seen from the attacker’s side.

Outcome

Silver Award at the FYP 1 project evaluation, 3–4 June 2026.

FYP 2 continues the build.

Projects on Rizzykun

Accessible STEM Laboratory

The problem

The sensory wall

Community service, and why it mattered

Outcome

Context-Aware IDPS for Web Servers

The idea

What FYP 1 covered

Outcome