Draft:Said Hamdioui

Said Hamdioui (Arabic; سعيد حمديوي) (born October 25, 1971) is a Moroccan-Dutch Technology professor. Hamdioui is currently Chair Professor on Dependable and Emerging Computer Technologies and Head of the Computer Engineering Laboratory (CE-Lab) of the Delft University of Technology the Netherlands. He is also co-founder and CEO of Cognitive-IC, a start-up focusing on hardware dependability solutions. He was also Head of the Quantum and Computer Engineering department from May 2019 to August 2023.

Prof.dr.ir. S. Hamdioui is strongly involved in the international community of technology as a member of organizing committees (e.g., general chair, program chair, etc) or a member of the technical program committees of the leading conferences. He delivered dozens of keynote speeches distinguished lectures, and invited presentations and tutorial at major international forums/conferences/schools and at leading semiconductor companies.Currently serving as member of Editorial Board of ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (2020-present) and of IEEE Design & Test (2013-present) for the EMEA region. He is also member of AENEAS/ENIAC Scientific Committee Council (AENEAS = Association for European NanoElectronics ActivitieS) and a Senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Early Life and Education
Said Hamdioui was born into a Moroccan Muslim family on October 25, 1971 in Amejjaou a commune part of Ben Said in Driouch Province, Oriental, Morocco. He grew up in a modest Berber family in a rural area. He is the third child and has ten siblings. Four brothers and six sisters. He was already seven years of age when he attended his first day at a primary schoo l. As a young child he had to walk 4 kilometers each daily to get to his primary school. He then attended School Al Massira in Nador to finish his primary education. His teachers advised him to pursue schooling in technology. Therefore, Lycée Technique Maghreb Arabi BTS in Oujda was an obvious choice, as it was the only college in the region offering secondary education focusing on technology. Due to the huge distance from his parental house to his secondary school in Oujda, Teenager Hamdioui was forced to live in Oujda in shared rooms in private houses with no parental supervision with other pupils from around the (rural) region. Eventually young Hamdioui obtained his Bacalureat graduation with honors. Now, his university student life could start. However, Saïd Hamdioui was barely a year into studying electronic engineering at the École Supérieure de Technologie, the University of Oujda, Morocco, when he was expelled due his political activities for the student union UNEM.

For him to continue studying, Hamdioui had to go abroad. He had the choice between the Netherlands and France. France was a too obvious choice because he already spoke the language. Fortunately, he had an aunt in Amsterdam who, together with her sons, wanted to help him with his visa application and finances. After a six-month language course, he started studying electrical engineering at Delft University of Technolog y in September 1993. At his new university in Delft he founded the Moroccan Student Association Delft (MSVD). He also joined the foreign student association DISS (Delft International Students Societies). “I think social contacts are very important and I wanted to get in touch with other students.” Hamdioui said in an interview at that time. .

Hamdioui Received the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (M.S.E.E.) in 1997 and his Ph.D. degrees with Honours in 2001 from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.

Career and research
In 2019 Said Hamdioui became the first Dutch of Moroccan origin to acquire the titel of chair professor in the Netherlands. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as Design and Test technology researcher at Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, Philips. From 2004 to 2005 he moved to Crolles in France to serve as Product Engineering at Philips Semiconductors Research & Development (currently NXP Semiconductors. Originally spun off from Philips) Development. A year later he then moved back to Philips/NXP Semiconductors Nijmegen, the Netherlands where he would continue at Philips as consultant on design for testability until 2007. In 2004, during his time at Philips/NXP Semiconductors, he published a book entitled Testing Static Random Access Memories. Defects, Fault Models and Test Patterns. He has authored and co-authored one book and contributed to two others. He has co-authored over 180 conference and journal papers. He holds two patents. His current research interests include dependable CMOS nano computing, including reliability, testability, hardware security and emerging technologies and computing paradigms, including 3-D stacked ICs, memristors for logic and storage, in-memory-computing. He has consulted for many companies. He delivered dozens of keynote speeches, distinguished lectures, and invited presentations and tutorials at major international forums/conferences/schools and at leading semiconductor companies.

Awards and honors
Hamdioui is the recipient of international and national awards. E.g., he is the recipient of European Design Automation Association (EDAA) Outstanding Dissertation Award 2001 (for his work on memory test techniques that have a widespread proliferation in the chip design industry). In 2004 his was In 2009 he was nominated for The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). The European Commission Components and Systems Innovation Award for most innovative H2020 project MNEMOSENE at European Forum for Electronic Components and Systems 2020, the 2015 and 2022 HiPEAC Technology Transfer Award. In addition, he received many Best Paper Awards and nominations at leading international conferences (e.g., IEEE International Conference on Computer Design ICCD 2015, International test Conference 2021, IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI 2016, Design Automation and Test in Europe DATE in 2020 and 2021, IEEE European Test Symposium in 2020 and 2021, etc.) In the Netherlands he was awarded the Best Tech Idea of 2021 by the jury of KIJK magazine. As a lecturer, he was appointed 2017 Teacher of the Year Award at the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands; Moreover, he was appointed as an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Distinguished Lecturer for 2021-2022, and he is leading member of Cadence Academic Network on Dependability and Design-for-Testability.