Abdullah is a young and budding Pakistani innovator, researcher and entrepreneur,and a cricket enthusiast. He has publications in peer-reviewed IEEE conferenceswith his latest research presented at MIT, USA. He has also received the PrimeMinister’s Bronze Medal and Rector’s Gold Medal in academia and has won awardslike Pakistan’s Innovator of the Year Award. He is also a Coca Cola MENA Scholarand a Rajeev Circle Fellow.

Currently, he is runs a startup named CricFlex – Wearable Tech for Cricket.CricFlexhas been featured by Cricinfo, the largest cricket news website.

CricFlex is the world’s first patented wearable technology for cricketers who want to improve their game and make it to the mainstream. An arm sleeve, embedded with sensors, automatically detects an illegal bowling action displaying the results on a smart phone. CricFlex tracks arm force, action time and amount of spin to determine the player performance, consistency & effort, ultimately helping the bowler train and improve the performance.