Prof Suhaib Fahmy

Suhaib Fahmy

Prof Suhaib Fahmy

Professor of Computer Engineering

s dot fahmy at warwick dot ac dot uk
+44 (0) 24 7657 5471

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Biography

Suhaib Fahmy leads Adaptive Reconfigurable Computing Lab within the School of Engineering at Warwick. He previously led the Connected Systems Research Group from 2016–2020. He was also Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute from 2017–2021. He graduated from Imperial College London in 2003 with a First Class Honours MEng in Information Systems Engineering, and in 2008 with a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. From 2007 to 2009, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at CTVR, Trinity College Dublin and Visiting Research Engineer at Xilinx Research Labs, Ireland, working on adaptive architectures for cognitive and software-defined radio systems. He was Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University from 2009 to 2015, where he served as Deputy Director of the Centre for High Performance Embedded Systems (CHiPES), and Deputy Program Director for the MSc in Embedded Systems. His research there explored the use of reconfigurable systems in domains including communications, cyber-physical systems, and automotive networks. He joined the University of Warwick in 2015.

Dr Fahmy received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT) in 2012, the IBM Faculty Award in 2013, a UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collaborative Development Award in 2013, the Community Award at the International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications in 2016, the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems Best Paper Award in 2019, and the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference Best Paper Award in 2021. He serves on the technical program committees for a number of prestigious conferences in the area of reconfigurable computing, actively reviews for many journals in related areas, and sits on the ACM Technical Committee on FPGAs. Dr Fahmy is a Senior Member of the IEEE, Senior Member of the ACM, Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the IET, and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research Interests

Reconfigurable computing;
field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs);
compute acceleration;
automotive systems;
dynamically adaptive systems;
adaptive radio systems.

Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

Projects and Grants

Team

Dr Fahmy’s research team includes the following students and previous graduates:

Student	Degree	Since	Topic
Beniel Thileepan	PhD	2022	Tooflows for FPGA Acceleration of HPC Applications (co-supervised with Gihan Mudalige)

Alumni

Student	Degree	Year	Thesis
I Nyoman Kusuma Wardana now at Politeknik Negeri Bali	PhD	2024	Machine Learning at the Edge for Air Quality Prediction (co-supervised with Julian Gardner)
Kamalavasan Kamalakkannan now at LANL	PhD	2023	High-Level FPGA Accelerator Design for Structured-Mesh-Based Numerical Solvers (co-supervised with Gihan Mudalige)
Alex Bucknall now at Arribada Initiative	PhD	2022	Build Framework and Runtime Abstraction for Partial Reconfiguration on FPGA SoCs
Lenos Ioannou now at SignalGenerix	PhD	2022	Exploring the Capabilities of FPGA DSP Blocks in Neural Network Accelerators
Dean Chester now at Cornelis Networks	PhD	2021	An Applications Approach to Benchmarking and Performance Modelling Low Latency Interconnection Networks (co-supervised with Stephen Jarvis and Gihan Mudalige)
Ryan Cooke now at Balena.io	PhD	2020	Modelling and Characterisation of Distributed Hardware Acceleration
Stephen Roberts now at Google	PhD	2018	Energy Aware Performance Engineering in High Performance Computing (co-supervised with Stephen Jarvis)
Philipp Mundhenk now at Bosch	PhD	2017	Security for Automotive Electrical/Electronic (E/E) Architectures (co-supervised with Samarjit Chakraborti at TUM CREATE)
Abhishek Jain now at AMD	PhD	2017	Architecture Centric Coarse-Grained FPGA Overlays (co-supervised with Douglas Maskell)
Ronak Bajaj now at Microsoft	PhD	2016	Exploiting DSP Block Capabilities in FPGA High Level Design Flows
Hui Yan Cheah now at AMD	PhD	2016	The iDEA Architecture-Focused FPGA Soft Processor (co-supervised with Nachiket Kapre)
Shreejith Shanker now at Trinity College Dublin	PhD	2016	Enhancing Automotive Embedded Systems with FPGAs
Hung Thinh Pham now at Arm	PhD	2015	Techniques for Multi-Standard Cognitive Radios on FPGAs (co-supervised with Ian McLoughlin)
Vipin Kizheppatt now at BITS Pilani	PhD	2015	Design Automation for Partially Reconfigurable Adaptive Systems
Kevin Ong now at Bosch	MEng	2014	A Scalable and Compact Linear Solver with a Focus on Model Predictive Control
Karan Shetti now at Aptiv	MEng	2014	Optimization and Scheduling of Applications in a Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Environment
Khoa Pham now at AMD	MEng	2014	Embedded Virtualization of a Hybrid ARM-FPGA Computing Platform (co-supervised with Douglas Maskell)
Simin Xu at AMD	MEng	2013	Efficient Polynomial Evaluation Algorithm and Implementation on FPGA

Research staff who have been part of the team in the past:

Bhaskar Banerjee (now SoC Engineer at Nokia)
Nadesh Ramanathan (now Research Associate at Imperial College London)
Fredrik Brosser (now Characterization Engineer at Xilinx)
Nidhin Thandassery Sumidhran (now Research Associate at Ulster University)

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