Bashir Al-Hashimi

Professor Sir
Bashir Al-Hashimi
CBE FRS FREng FIET FBCS FIEEE
Born (1961-01-05) 5 January 1961 (age 65)
Baghdad, Iraq
AwardsIET Faraday Medal
Scientific career
FieldsComputer engineering, energy efficient computing, embedded systems, low power semiconductor chips test
WorkplacesKing's College London, University of Southampton
Websitewww.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-bashir-al-hashimi

Sir Bashir Mohammed Ali Al-Hashimi (Arabic: بشير محمد علي الهاشمي; born 5 January 1961) is an Iraqi-British computer engineering researcher, academic and higher education leader. He is Senior Vice President (Research & Special Initiatives) and ARM Professor of Computer Engineering at King's College London in the United Kingdom. He was the co-founder and co-director of the ARM-ECS Research Centre, an industry-university collaboration partnership involving the University of Southampton and ARM. 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. He is Vice-President for International and chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering's International Committee.

Research and academic career

Bashir has made contributions to the field of hardware-software co-design, low power semiconductor chips test and test-data compression of digital integrated circuits and energy-harvesting computing.

In 2009, he established the Pervasive Systems Centre. He has published 6 books and numerous peer-reviewed papers.

He was the project director for PRiME, an EPSRC funded five-year programme (2013–2018).

He was also the project director for the EPSRC funded Holistic battery-free electronics project, aiming to develop ultra-energy-efficient electronic systems for emerging applications including mobile digital health and autonomous wireless monitoring in environmental and industrial settings.

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. In 2020, he joined King's College London to lead the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences.

In May 2025, he was appointed co-director of the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Awards, honours and fellowships

Appointments

Bashir was an Elected Trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering Board for a 3-year term to September 2024 and completed in 2023 a term as chair of the academy's Awards Committee. He is a Board Director of the ERA Foundation and was a UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) Board Trustee and Director.

He was a member of the Research England Expanding Excellence in England (E3) Fund Assessment Panel.

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

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  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 (inactive 11 July 2025). Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 11 December 2018.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of July 2025 (link)
  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. Bibcode:2004ITCAD..23.1142R. doi:10.1109/TCAD.2004.829797. S2CID 17753269.
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  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. Bibcode:2011ITCSE..58..911W. 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. Bibcode:2015IESL....7...15B. doi:10.1109/LES.2014.2371494. S2CID 8513908.
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