Dr. Ibrahim Bello received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in 2006, MSc (with distinction) in Microelectronic Systems and Telecommunications from the University of Liverpool in 2010, and PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton in 2017. During his PhD, he investigated various ASIC architectures for MIMO detection algorithms. In 2019, he joined the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he carried out research in smart energy systems. Dr Bello was previously a lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, where he taught various topics in software development and digital systems design. In 2022, he joined Dyson Technology Ltd. as a Senior Embedded Software Engineer. He retains a keen interest in hardware implementation of digital signal processing algorithms, the Internet of Things, and smart energy systems.
Dr. Basel Halak is an Associate Professor and the director of the embedded systems and IoT program at the University of Southampton. Dr Halak is a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, an industrial fellow of the royal academy of engineering a senior fellow of the higher education academy and a national teaching fellow of Advance HE UK. He has written over 100-refereed conference and journal papers and authored four books. His research expertise includes hardware security, digital design, and embedded systems. Dr Halak serves on several technical programme committees such as HOST, IEEE DATE, DAC, IVSW, ICCCA, ICCCS, MTV and EWME. He is an associate editor of IEEE access and an editor of the IET circuit devices and system journal. He is also a member of the hardware security-working group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
