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Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi CBE is currently Vice President (Research & Innovation) at King鈥檚 College London. He served previously as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences at King鈥檚 after undertaking a similar Executive Dean role at the 黑料社.
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Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi CBE is a Visiting Professor in Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the 黑料社 and an ARM Professor of Computer Engineering at King's College London. He worked in the electronics design industry for eight years prior to embarking on an academic career with ECS in 1999, where he was awarded a personal Chair in 2004.
His research focuses on studying the interaction between hardware and software of energy-constrained computing to design systems that are more energy efficient and more reliable through theoretical and experimental advances. He has made contributions to the field of energy-efficient mobile computing systems, low-power test and test-data compression of digital integrated circuits and energy-harvesting computing. His research is supported by the .
In 2008, he founded the in energy-efficient computing. He has supervised 45 PhD students to successful completion, published nearly 400 technical papers, with eight best paper awards and has authored / co-authored and edited five books and eight book chapters (his recent edited book ).
Bashir is an interdisciplinary researcher and he has led successfully a number of large-scale interdisciplinary research programmes funded by the EPSRC and industry. As examples, he was the principal investigator of an EPSRC Programme Grant . Bashir has established numerous international research collaborations and he is currently a member of the EPSRC-funded international centre-to-centre research consortia in .
He was awarded a CBE in 2018 for his services to engineering and industry and knighted in the New Year Honours 2025 for his contribution to engineering and education. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013 and as a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2011. He served on the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 Electrical, Electronics and Materials Panel and served again in REF2021 as a member of the Engineering Panel.
He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society and Membership of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2023.
Bashir is currently Vice President (Research & Innovation) at King鈥檚 College London. He served previously as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences at King鈥檚 after undertaking a similar Executive Dean role at the 黑料社.
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