Bashir M. Al-Hashimi

Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi is currently Vice President (Research & Innovation) at King’s College London and holds the ARM Professorship in Computer Engineering there. He is also a Visiting Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Prior to academia, he worked in the electronics design industry for eight years before joining the University of Southampton in 1999, where he became a personal Chair holder in 2004. His research focuses on energy-efficient computing systems, low-power testing, and energy-harvesting technologies, with a strong emphasis on smart city applications and wearable computing. He has led numerous interdisciplinary projects funded by the EPSRC and industry, including the PRiME Programme Grant and the EPSRC-funded Spatial Computational Learning consortium.

He has supervised 45 PhD students and authored/co-authored nearly 400 technical papers, earning eight best paper awards and contributing to five books. His honors include a CBE (2018), knighthood (2025), Fellowship of the Royal Society (2023), and roles on the Research Excellence Framework panels. He founded the Arm-ECS industry-academia center in 2008, promoting energy-efficient computing research.