Suhaib Fahmy

Suhaib Fahmy is a Professor of Computer Science at KAUST, having previously held the position of Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. He leads the Adaptive Reconfigurable Computing Lab and was previously the head of the Connected Systems Research Group (2016–2020) and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute (2017–2021). He earned a First Class Honours MEng in Information Systems Engineering (2003) and a PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2008) from Imperial College London. His career includes postdoctoral research at Trinity College Dublin (2007–2009) and a role as Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University (2009–2015).

His research focuses on reconfigurable computing, FPGAs, compute acceleration, automotive systems, and adaptive radio systems. Notable contributions include work on automotive cybersecurity, FPGA-based neural networks, and low-latency accelerator interfaces. He has received awards such as the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference Best Paper Award (2021) and ACM Transactions Best Paper Award (2019).

Dr. Fahmy has supervised numerous students, including PhD candidates focusing on FPGA acceleration of HPC applications, edge ML, and automotive networks. His teams have pioneered frameworks like NAIL for FPGA offloading and developed security solutions for automotive E/E architectures. He actively contributes to conferences and holds senior memberships in IEEE and ACM.