Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi#
| Membership Number: | 7117 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/professor-bashir-al-hashimi |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3591-1328 |
| X: | @hashimi_bashir |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/sir-bashir-m-al-hashimi-cbe-freng-frs-a879936/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BTNpgAFc%2BSkm%2BhHymOz7R9w%3D%3D |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004, 01 - present Personal Professorial Chair, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom and later King’s College London
- 2022, 10 - present Vice President (Research & Innovation), King's College London, United Kingdom
- 2020. 10 - present Trustee and Director of UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) and ERA Board Foundation
- 2020, 04 - 2022, 12 Executive Dean, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, King's College London, United Kingdom
- 2018, 08 - 2020, 03 Executive Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- 2014, 03 - 2018, 07 Executive Dean, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- 2007, 02 - 2020, 03 Arm Professor of Computer Engineering, Director of Arm-Southampton Research Centre, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Fields of Scholarship
- Hardware and software technologies for digital electronic devices
- Energy-efficient computing and applications
- Semiconductor chips design
- Computer engineering
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Appointed Knight Bachelor (Sir) by His Majesty The King, Charles III in the New Year Honours
- 2023 Fellow of the Royal Society (The oldest existing scientific academy in the world)
- 2023 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2020 Faraday Medal by UK Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET), The Institute's highest honour and globally prestigious award for engineers and scientists
- 2018 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- 2014 the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship “for significant scientific contributions to energy-efficient and reliable many-core computing systems”
- 2013 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK National Academy)
- 2012 Lifetime Fellow of the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (European Design and Automation Association EDAA) for major leadership and technical contributions
- 2012 IEEE Outstanding Service Award for exceptional leadership to EDA community
- 2012 The Design and Test in European Conference (DATE) Fellowship in recognition of “contributions to system-level electronic design and technical leadership”
- 2009 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) “for contributions to low-power integrated circuits and systems”. Only 0.1% of the worldwide IEEE membership annually are elected fellows
- 2007 Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS)
- 2003 Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET)
- MRC grants
- 2010 - 2014 Erasmus Mundus, Master Course (2 year) in Embedded Computing Systems




