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Said Hamdioui is Chair Professor of Dependable and Emerging Computer Technologies and Head of the Computer Engineering Laboratory (CE-Lab) at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), where he previously served as Head of the Quantum and Computer Engineering Department (2019–2023). He is also co-founder and CEO of Cognitive-IC, a startup specializing in hardware dependability solutions. His research focuses on emerging computing paradigms, including in-memory computing, brain-inspired architectures, and low-power hardware for edge AI, as well as hardware dependability including testing, reliability, and security. Before academia, he gained industry experience at Intel (USA) and Philips/NXP Semiconductors (France, Netherlands). He has played a pivotal role in numerous high-impact national and European research projects.
As researcher and innovator, Hamdioui has made significant contributions to hardware dependability and computation-in-memory. Over two decades, Hamdioui has made pioneering contributions to chip and memory testing, delivering innovative solutions widely adopted by global leaders such as Intel, STMicroelectronics, Infineon, and Renesas. His groundbreaking memory testing methods have become industry benchmarks, addressing critical challenges in chip quality and reliability, while also supporting these companies through consultancy and training. His device-aware-test technology redefined defect detection, addressing test escapes and silent data errors. Additionally, his work on 3D-stacked IC testing has influenced industry adoption of 3D-IC architectures. In Computation-in-Memory (CIM), he was among the first to demonstrate its transformative potential for energy-efficient computing (2015). As the initiator of MNEMOSENE, the first EU-funded CIM project (2017), he secured €4M under Horizon 2020, collaborating with IMEC, ARM, IBM, TU/E, and ETHZ to achieve groundbreaking 100× to 1000× energy efficiency gains in edge AI, databases, and video streaming. His CIM accelerator designs, leveraging RRAM, STT-MRAM, PCM, and SRAM, have been prototyped and demonstrated in collaboration with industry leaders, showcasing their impact on edge AI, personalized health, and edge computing. Hamdioui holds four patents, has authored one book, contributed to two others, and published over 330 conference and journal papers.
As an educator, Hamdioui has supervised 19 graduated PhD students, from which: 1) one won European Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2020, 2) one won McCluskey Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2021, c) and two graduated Cum Laude, In addition, he supervised and graduated over 50 MSc students, from which three graduated Cum Laude. He has played a key role in shaping TU Delft’s Computer Engineering and Computer and Embedded Systems curricula, restructuring multiple courses and labs. His excellence in teaching earned him the Teacher of the Year Award (2016) and Educator of the Year (2023). He was also appointed as an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2021–2022) and has contributed to various educational committees.
Hamdioui has received numerous prestigious awards, including the European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award (2001) for his groundbreaking memory test techniques, the European Commission Components and Systems Innovation Award (2020), and the HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award (2015, 2022). He has won over 20 Best Paper Awards at leading conferences such as DATE and ITC and was named The Netherlands’ Best Tech Idea of 2021. In 2022, he was appointed to Advantest’s Advisory Board for joint research with Stuttgart University. In 2024, he was elected Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering.
Actively engaged in the international research community, Hamdioui has served on technical and organizing committees of major conferences, delivered keynotes, distinguished lectures, and invited tutorials, and collaborated with top semiconductor companies. He has held editorial roles for IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, Microelectronics Reliability Journal, and JETTA and currently serves on the editorial boards of ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems and IEEE Design & Test.