Hamed Tabkhi is an accomplished computer scientist and researcher with a deep understanding of computer architecture, system design, and microarchitecture optimization. He is currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Hamed graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego, in 2014. Before joining UC Santa Barbara, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked on various projects related to microarchitecture design and optimization.

Hamed has published numerous papers in major computer architecture and design conferences and journals, including IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), IEEE Micro, and ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. He has received several awards and recognitions for his research work, including the IEEE Micro Top Picks Award in 2017, the UC San Diego CSE Dissertation Award in 2014, and the Intel Ph.D. Fellowship in 2012.

Apart from his academic research, Hamed has also contributed to industry research projects at Intel and Qualcomm, where he developed novel methods for system design and optimization. Hamed's research interests include computer architecture, microarchitecture optimization, system design, and emerging technologies such as quantum computing.