Mentors
I have been blessed to be supervised by kind and experienced mentors throughout my career, who taught me not only technically but also personally. I aspire to mentor my own students in the same way.
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Prof. Timothy M. Jones
Professor · University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral mentor · 2021–2024
Prof. Timothy M. Jones is a Professor at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, as well as a Fellow and 1956 College Lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, where he is joint Director of Studies (DoS) for Computer Science. Tim's research focuses on extracting the many forms of parallelism present in applications (e.g., thread-level, data-level, memory-level) to increase performance and to address energy-efficiency and reliability challenges within compilers, binary translators and microarchitectures.
Tim was my mentor throughout my postdoctoral research in processor architecture and security, offering valuable insights and guidance as I investigated fundamental concepts and stayed abreast of emerging trends in these areas.
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Dr. Dayu Shi
Principal Architect · Arm Ltd.
Industry mentor · 2020–2022
Dr. Dayu Shi is a Principal Architect at Arm Ltd. and has over 15 years of experience in electronic-system and IC design. During his tenure at Arm, he has held various leadership roles — including product lead, technical lead, design lead and security lead — for IC design projects spanning a wide range of applications, from IoT devices to mobile phones and servers. His expertise encompasses electronic-system and computer architecture, IC front-end micro-architecture design, IC hardware security, and IC product management.
Dayu was my mentor while I worked at Arm, providing valuable guidance in SoC (micro-)architecture and design automation, helping me to gain a deeper understanding of real-world industry challenges and best practices.
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Mr. Rabih ah
Senior Manager · Renesas Electronics
Industry mentor · 2018–2020
Mr. Rabih ah is a Senior Manager at Renesas Electronics with more than 30 years of experience in architecture, design and verification. He has led the development of innovative automotive products that are now widely used by industry leaders such as Bosch and BMW. His deep expertise in IC architecture and verification ensures that these products meet stringent safety and performance standards.
Rabih was my mentor while I worked at Renesas, sharing essential strategies for anticipating and addressing potential safety challenges in hardware design and enhancing my ability to deliver high-quality, safety-focused designs.
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Prof. Neil Audsley
Deputy Dean · City, University of London
PhD supervisor · 2014–2018
Prof. Neil Audsley is a Professor at City, University of London, as well as the Deputy Dean of the School of Science and Technology and Director of the STEM Digital Academy. Neil has had a distinguished research career in real-time embedded systems and has developed many novel approaches and implementation techniques, including predictable hardware, improved system software and system timing analysis. Specific areas of research include high-performance real-time systems and their acceleration on FPGAs; real-time memory architectures; scheduling, timing analysis and worst-case execution-time analysis.
Neil was my mentor throughout my doctoral research in real-time embedded systems, giving me indispensable guidance that helped me to develop my research vision, thinking and methodologies, and bringing me into the world of academia.