Bashir Al-Hashimi

Bashir Al-Hashimi
CBE FRS FREng FIET FBCS FIEEE
Al-Hashimi in July 2023
Born (1961-01-05) 5 January 1961 (age 63)
Baghdad, Iraq
AwardsIET Faraday Medal[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer engineering, energy efficient computing, embedded systems, low power semiconductor chips test
InstitutionsKing's College London, University of Southampton

Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi (born 5 January 1961)[2] is a computer engineering researcher, academic and higher education leader. He is Vice President (Research & Innovation) and ARM Professor of Computer Engineering at King's College London in the United Kingdom.[3][4] He was the co-founder and co-director of the ARM-ECS Research Centre,[5] an industry-university collaboration partnership involving the University of Southampton and ARM.[6] He is the chair of the Engineers 2030 working group, a national campaign overseen by the National Engineering Policy Centre and led by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. The campaign centres around accelerating change and the future workforce of engineering.[7]

Research and academic career

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Bashir has made theoretical and experimental contributions to the field of hardware-software co-design,[8][9] low power semiconductor chips test[10] and test-data compression of digital integrated circuits[11][12] and energy-harvesting computing.[13][14]

In 2009, he established the Pervasive Systems Centre.[15] He has published 6 books (including Many-Core Computing: Hardware and Software, IET (2019)[16] and nearly 400 referred technical papers.[17][18]

He was the project director for PRiME,[19] an EPSRC funded five-year programme (2013–2018) researching in the areas of low power, highly-parallel, reconfigurable and dependable computing and verified software design.[20]

He was also the project director for the EPSRC funded Holistic battery-free electronics project,[21] aiming to develop ultra-energy-efficient electronic systems for emerging applications including mobile digital health and autonomous wireless monitoring in environmental and industrial settings. The project has played an important role in shaping and influencing the academic research agenda worldwide in powering Internet of Things devices in a sustainable way.[22]

In 2014, he was appointed Executive Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering at Southampton and in 2018, as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences,[23] where he remains a Visiting Professor at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS).[24] In 2020, he joined King's College London to lead the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, leading the change to Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences at King's.[25]

Awards, honours and fellowhips

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Appointments

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Bashir is an Elected Trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering Board[36] and completed in 2023 a term as chair of the Academy's Awards Committee. He is a Board Director of the ERA Foundation[37] and a UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF)[38] Board Trustee and Director.[39]

He was a member of the Research England Expanding Excellence in England (E3) Fund Assessment Panel[40] and he served as a panel member on the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014[41] and the REF 2021 Engineering Panel.[42]

He was a Trustee of King's College London Mathematics School, completing his term in 2023.[43]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Our IET 2020 Prestige Medal winners". Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 27 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Companies House".
  3. ^ "Vice President (Research & Innovation)".
  4. ^ "Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences". King's College London. 19 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Arm Southampton".
  6. ^ "ARM-ECS Research Centre".
  7. ^ "Engineers 2030" (PDF).
  8. ^ Schmitz, Marcus; Al-Hashimi, Bashir; Eles, Petru (2004). System-Level Design Techniques for Energy-Efficient Embedded Systems. Norwell, MA, USA: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-1402077500.
  9. ^ Andrei, A.; Schmitz, M.; Eles, P.; Peng, Z.; Al-Hashimi, B.M. (14 January 2005). "Overhead-conscious voltage selection for dynamic and leakage energy reduction of time-constrained systems". IEE Proceedings - Computers and Digital Techniques. 152 (1): 28–38. doi:10.1049/ip-cdt:20045055. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  10. ^ Rosinger, P.; Al-Hashimi, B.M.; Nicolici, N. (7 July 2004). "Scan architecture with mutually exclusive scan segment activation for shift- and capture-power reduction" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 23 (7): 1142–1153. doi:10.1109/TCAD.2004.829797. S2CID 17753269.
  11. ^ Gonciari, P.T.; Al-Hashimi, B.M.; Nicolici, N. (June 2003). "Variable-length input Huffman coding for system-on-a-chip test". IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 22 (6): 783–796. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.107.2601. doi:10.1109/TCAD.2003.811451.
  12. ^ Gonciari, P.T.; Al-Hashimi, B.M.; Nicolici, N. (March 2002). "Improving compression ratio, area overhead, and test application time for system-on-a-chip test data compression/Decompression". Proceedings 2002 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition. pp. 604–611. doi:10.1109/DATE.2002.998363. ISBN 978-0-7695-1471-0. S2CID 195857239.
  13. ^ Weddell, Alex S.; Merrett, Geoff V.; Kazmierski, Tom J.; Al-Hashimi, Bashir M. (1 December 2011). "Accurate Supercapacitor Modeling for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. 58 (12): 911–915. doi:10.1109/TCSII.2011.2172712. S2CID 14097862.
  14. ^ Balsamo, Domenico; Weddell, Alex S.; Merrett, Geoff V.; Al-Hashimi, Bashir M.; Brunelli, Davide; Benini, Luca (March 2015). "Hibernus: Sustaining Computation During Intermittent Supply for Energy-Harvesting Systems" (PDF). IEEE Embedded Systems Letters. 7 (1): 15–18. doi:10.1109/LES.2014.2371494. S2CID 8513908.
  15. ^ "Pervasive Systems Centre".
  16. ^ Al-Hashimi, Bashir M.; Merrett, Geoff V., eds. (2019). IET Digital Library. IET Digital Library. doi:10.1049/PBPC022E. ISBN 9781785615825. S2CID 196209498.
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  18. ^ "King's PURE portal".
  19. ^ "PRiME".
  20. ^ "About PRiME". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  21. ^ "Holistic".
  22. ^ "IoT Conference Report" (PDF). IoT Conference Report. The Royal Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 October 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  23. ^ "Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering".
  24. ^ "Homepage of Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi".
  25. ^ "Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences".
  26. ^ "FRS".
  27. ^ "Royal Society New Fellows 2023".
  28. ^ "European Academy of Sciences and Arts".
  29. ^ "Professor Al-Hashimi awarded IET Faraday Medal".
  30. ^ "Bashir AL-HASHIMI - Order of the British Empire". The Gazette. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  31. ^ "Royal Society announces latest recipients of esteemed Wolfson Research Merit Award".
  32. ^ "List of Fellows - Royal Academy of Engineering". Archived from the original on 8 June 2016.
  33. ^ "DATE Fellows". DATE Fellows. Design, Automation and Test in Europe. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  34. ^ "Outstanding Service Recognition". IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  35. ^ "IEEE".
  36. ^ "RAEng Board Trustee".
  37. ^ "ERA Foundation".
  38. ^ "UKESF".
  39. ^ "UKESF Director".
  40. ^ "Expanding Excellence in England(E3) Fund".
  41. ^ "REF 2014" (PDF). Research Excellence Framework. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  42. ^ "REF 2021" (PDF). Research Excellence Framework. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  43. ^ "King's Mathematics School".
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