introduction

Sami Yehia is a senior research engineer at Thales Research and Technology (TRT), Embedded Systems Labs. He is member of the HiPEAC network and member of its industrial advisory board. He is also an ACM member.

Sami obtained his PhD from Paris XI University in 2004, and worked at ARM ltd. (Cambridge) before he join Thales.

Research Interests

• Computer achitectures, compilers and embedded systems, more specifically:

• Architecture Specialization and Instruction set customization, especially transparent customization.
• Multicore architectures and heterogeneous parallel systems.
• Parallel programming models.
• SIMD architectures.

• Current Research Activities:

• 6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors (SASP 08) TPC member.
• 26th IEEE Internatinal Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2008) TPC member. Processor Architecture Track.
• Internation Symposium on Systems, Architectures, Modeling and Simulation (SAMOS VIII) TPC member.
• First International Forum on Next-Generation Multicore/Manycore Technologies (IFMT'08) TPC member.