Bashir Al-Hashimi

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Bashir Al-Hashimi
CBE, FRS, FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FBCS
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,[2] CBE, FRS, FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FBCS (born 5 January 1961)[3] is a recognised multidisciplinary global researcher with sustained and pioneering contributions to computer engineering and a prominent 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]

Research and Academic Career[edit]

Bashir is one of only a few researchers worldwide with internationally leading expertise in both 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 fundamental 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] the first multidisciplinary research centre researching the interaction of hardware and software in computing systems. He has published 6 books (including Many-Core Computing: Hardware and Software, IET (2019)[20] and nearly 400 referred technical papers.

He has developed and validated new methods, tools and advanced technology demonstrators for use in integrated circuits and embedded systems design and test, which have now spread across the world. He was one of the first internationally to demonstrate through theory and experiment that the yield of low power digital integrated circuits is negatively impacted during manufacturing testing, showing through a sound theoretical framework the interplay between energy efficiency and hardware reliability of embedded systems. 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]

Both projects were undertaken with a consortium of universities and industrial partners to investigate how to reduce energy consumption of electronic and computing systems, discovering the factors and understanding to make battery-free and many-core computing possible. These works are now citied regularly in reported research worldwide and examples of specific achievements include the development of algorithms for energy-harvesting computing and devising methods for reducing both dynamic and leakage power consumption of embedded systems.

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] one of the largest engineering faculties in the UK with a budget of nearly £200m, 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] Under his leadership the faculty saw significant growth in staffing, research performance, student numbers and external academic standing.

Awards, Honours and Fellowhips[edit]

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[edit]

Bashir is an Elected Trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering Board[36] and completed recently 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.[42]

Early life and education[edit]

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.

Personal life[edit]

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

References[edit]

  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. ^ a b "Bashir AL-HASHIMI - Order of the British Empire". The Gazette. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  3. ^ "Companies House".
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  5. ^ "Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences". King's College London. 19 May 2023.
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  9. ^ "The Engineer comment and opinion". 5 September 2023.
  10. ^ "Times Education Higher article". 11 January 2020.
  11. ^ "Engineers 2030" (PDF).
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ 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.
  18. ^ 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.
  19. ^ "Pervasive Systems Centre".
  20. ^ Al-Hashimi, Bashir M.; Merrett, Geoff V., eds. (2019). IET Digital Library. IET Digital Library. doi:10.1049/PBPC022E. ISBN 9781785615825. S2CID 196209498.
  21. ^ "PRiME".
  22. ^ "About PRiME". Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  23. ^ "Holistic".
  24. ^ "IoT Conference Report" (PDF). IoT Conference Report. The Royal Society. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
  25. ^ "Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering".
  26. ^ "Homepage of Professor Bashir Al-Hashimi".
  27. ^ "Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences".
  28. ^ "FRS".
  29. ^ "Royal Society New Fellows 2023".
  30. ^ "European Academy of Sciences and Arts".
  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. ^ "Introducing The New Class of Fellows". March 2009.
  36. ^ "RAEng Board Trustee".
  37. ^ "ERA Foundation".
  38. ^ "UKESF Director".
  39. ^ "Expanding Excellence in England(E3) Fund".
  40. ^ "REF 2014" (PDF). Research Excellence Framework. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  41. ^ "REF 2021" (PDF). Research Excellence Framework. Retrieved 26 October 2018.
  42. ^ "King's Maths School".
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