Bashir Al-Hashimi

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

Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi, [2] CBE, FRS, FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FBCS (born 5 January 1961) [3] is an Iraqui 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. [4] [5] He was the co-founder and co-director of the ARM-ECS Research Centre, [6] an industry-university collaboration partnership involving the University of Southampton and ARM. [7] He is actively involved in promoting science and engineering for young people [8] and regularly contributes to engineering higher education and skills national debates. [9] [10] 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. [11]

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Early life and education

Bashir was born in Baghdad, Iraq and he came to the UK in 1978 to study and went to the University of Bath where he obtained an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. He was awarded an MSc in electronics engineering from the University of Cardiff in 1986 and his PhD degree (1989) was received from the University of York with a thesis on the synthesis and integration of analogue filters, supervised by Kel Fidler. He worked in the electronics industry following his PhD in 1989 and joined the Department of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at University of Southampton in 2000.

Research and academic career

Bashir focuses on low power design and test of integrated electronic circuits and systems. His research focuses on understanding the interaction between hardware and software in constrained computing systems such as in mobile and embedded applications and how such interactions can be used through theory and experiment to achieve systems energy optimisation and enhanced hardware dependability. He has made theoretical and experimental contributions to the field of hardware-software co-design, [12] [13] low power semiconductor chips test [14] and test-data compression of digital integrated circuits [15] [16] and energy-harvesting computing. [17] [18]

In 2009, he established the Pervasive Systems Centre. [19] He has published 6 books (including Many-Core Computing: Hardware and Software, IET (2019) [20] and nearly 400 referred technical papers.

He was the project director for PRiME, [21] 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. [22]

He was also the project director for the EPSRC funded Holistic battery-free electronics project, [23] aiming to develop ultra-energy-efficient electronic systems for emerging applications including mobile digital health and autonomous wireless monitoring in environmental and industrial settings.This project addressed one of the UK Electronics Design community Grand Challenges, “Batteries Not Included”. 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. [24]

He has held various academic leadership roles, starting with serving as Deputy Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), University of Southampton. 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, [25] where he remains a Visiting Professor at the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS). [26] 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. [27]

Awards, honours and fellowhips

In 2023, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. [28] [29] His nomination from the Royal Society reads:

"Bashir M. Al-Hashimi is distinguished for pioneering theoretical and practical contributions to semiconductor microchips manufacturing test, energy-efficient computation and the emerging research discipline of energy harvesting computing. His research impact and technology transfer have been significant in academia and industry. He invented new low-power and cost effective test methods and tools for electronics system-on-chips. He pioneered use of system-level design to understand the interaction between hardware and software of embedded computing to save energy, providing the underpinning of design automation tools."

Elected in 2023 as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. [30]

In 2020, he was awarded the IET Faraday Medal, [1] formally signing the register at a ceremony in October 2022.

Bashir was also appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to computer engineering and to industry. [2]

In 2014, he received the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship for his work on energy-efficient and reliable many-core computing systems. [31]

Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, 2013. [32]

In 2012, the European Electronic Design Automation Association awarded him a DATE Fellowship for leadership and outstanding contributions to electronic design, automation and test. [33]

In 2012, he was awarded the Outstanding Service Award by the IEEE Council for Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) for serving as the General Chair of DATE 2012. [34]

Elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009. [35]

Appointments

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.

He was a member of the Research England Expanding Excellence in England (E3) Fund Assessment Panel [39] and he served as a panel member on the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 [40] and the REF 2021 Engineering Panel. [41]

He was a Trustee of King's Maths School, completing his term in 2023.

Personal life

Bashir is married to May and they have three daughters: Sara, Haneen and Zahara.

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