Sherief Reda
{{Short description|American computer scientist and professor}}
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| fields = Higher Education, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Sherief Reda is a computer scientist and engineer. He is currently a professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science Department,{{Cite web |title=Reda, Sherief |url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/sreda |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=vivo.brown.edu |language=en}} Brown University, and a principal research scientist at Amazon{{Cite web |title=Sherief Reda |url=https://www.amazon.science/author/sherief-reda |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=Amazon Science |language=en}} Supply Chain Optimization Technology team.{{Cite web |title=Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) |url=https://www.amazon.science/tag/supply-chain-optimization-technologies |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=Amazon Science |language=en}} He has been elevated to a Fellow of the IEEE{{Cite web |title=IEEE Fellow {{!}} IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation |url=https://ieee-ceda.org/awards/ieee-fellow |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=ieee-ceda.org}} for his contributions to energy-efficient and approximate computing.
Education & career
Reda received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California, San Diego in 2006.{{Cite web |title=Graduating PhDs in 2005-2006 {{!}} Computer Science |url=https://cse.ucsd.edu/graduate/graduating-phds/2005-2006 |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=cse.ucsd.edu}} Prior to that, he received his BSc (Distinction with Honors) and his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer and Systems from Ain Shams University in 1998 and 2000 respectively. He has been a faculty at Brown University since 2006 and an IEEE Fellow{{Cite web |title=IEEE Computer Society Announces 2023 Class of Fellows {{!}} |date=9 December 2022 |url=https://www.computer.org/press-room/2022-news/ieee-computer-society-announces-2023-class-of-fellows |access-date=2022-12-15 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Reda named to 2023 class of IEEE Fellows |url=https://engineering.brown.edu/news/2022-11-29/sherief-reda-named-ieee-fellow |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=Engineering {{!}} Brown University |language=en}} since 2022. Reda has served as an organizer and technical committee member for many conferences, including serving as the general co-chair of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics Design {{Cite web |title=Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology |url=https://woset-workshop.github.io/ |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=woset-workshop.github.io |language=en-US}} in 2021. He served as an associate editor for ElSevier Integration and IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design. Besides his academic work, Reda has served as an expert witness for patent litigation cases, and he has been a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon since 2021
Research
Reda is known for his research in energy-efficient computing, electronic design automation, embedded systems, and molecular computing.{{Cite web |title=Researchers report progress on molecular data storage system |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/517876 |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=EurekAlert! |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Progress on molecular data storage system |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200204163650.htm |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=ScienceDaily |language=en}} He has broad interests in the use of combinatorial optimization and machine learning for applications in both circuit design and supply chain systems. He has over 130 scientific articles in leading journals and conferences (Google scholar {{Cite web |title=Sherief Reda |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p69MQp4AAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=scholar.google.com}}), and he authored and edited two books.{{Cite book |last=Reda |first=Sherief |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794515122 |title=Power modeling and characterization of computing devices : a survey |date=2012 |publisher=Now |others=Abdullah N. Nowroz |isbn=978-1-60198-561-3 |location=Boston |oclc=794515122}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1079007910 |title=Approximate circuits : methodologies and CAD |date=2019 |others=Sherief Reda, Muhammad Shafique |isbn=978-3-319-99322-5 |location=Cham, Switzerland |oclc=1079007910}} Reda’s research laboratory, SCALE lab,{{Cite web |title=SCALE lab |url=https://scale-lab.github.io/ |access-date=2022-06-05 |website=SCALE lab |language=en}} is a major contributor to open-source EDA and embedded system tools,{{Cite web |title=UC San Diego selected to lead development of open-source hardware design automation tools |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/578479 |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=EurekAlert! |language=en}} and he co-founded the WOSET workshop for open-source EDA technology in 2018. He has been a PI or co-PI on more than $21M of funded projects from federal agencies such as National Science Foundation, DARPA and Department of Defense, and many industry corporations, such as Samsung, Qualcomm, Facebook, AMD, and Intel. In 2017, Reda was named one of 11 trailblazers to follow by The Providence Journal.{{Cite web |title=11 trailblazers to follow in 2017 |url=https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/healthcare/2017/01/03/ri-innovators-11-trailblazers-to-follow-in-2017/22819738007/ |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=The Providence Journal |language=en-US}} His research was featured in the news including Science Daily and American Association for Advancement of Science.{{Cite web |title=Researchers report progress on molecular data storage system |url=https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/517876 |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=EurekAlert! |language=en}}
Books
- {{cite book |last1=Reda |first1=Sherief |last2=Nowroz |first2=Abdullah |title=Power Modeling and Characterization of Computing Devices: A Survey |date=30 May 2012 |publisher=Now Publishers |isbn=978-1-60198-560-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ESxHLgEACAAJ |language=en}}
- {{cite book |last1=Reda |first1=Sherief |last2=Shafique |first2=Muhammad |title=Approximate Circuits: Methodologies and CAD |date=5 December 2018 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-99322-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Drh9DwAAQBAJ |language=en}}
Awards
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- IEEE/ACM Design Automation Test in Europe (DATE), 2002.
- National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2010{{Cite web |title=NSF Award Search: Award # 1542224 - Third Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium: An Opportunity to Engage Young Outstanding Researchers from the U.S. and the Arab Region, Dec.5-7. |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1542224 |access-date=2022-06-04 |website=www.nsf.gov |language=en}}
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low-Power Electronics and Design Best Paper Award in 2010.
- National Academy of Sciences (NAS) US-Arab Frontiers Fellowship, 2016.
- IEEE International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference in 2018.
In addition, his publications have been nominated for best papers awards in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2005, IEEE Asian South-Pacific Design Automation Conference 2008, International Conference on Computer-Aided Design 2015, Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference 2020, and VLSI SoC Symposium 2020.
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