Ahmed Al Maashri is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University. Ahmed holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University – USA, a Master of Information Science in Internetworking from the University of New South Wales – Australia, and a Bachelor in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Sultan Qaboos University – Oman. Ahmed has over 20 years of academic experience. He is a senior IEEE member, the founder of the IEEE Oman Computer Chapter, and the past Chair of the IEEE Oman Section.

Ahmed has published journal and conference papers in the areas of Computer Architecture, Reconfigurable Computing, Embedded Systems, Digital Logic, Wireless Networks, artificial intelligence, and unmanned vehicle systems. He has co-founded the Embedded & Interconnected Vision Systems Laboratory, a unique and one-of-its-kind in the region. He is a two-time recipient of the National Research Award in the ICT sector and has been recognized by Sultan Qaboos University with the Best Teacher and Best Researcher Awards.

Ahmed’s recent focus is on Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Vision Systems, and designing hardware accelerators to speed up the performance of such systems.