Rishad Shafik

Dr Rishad Shafik is the EEE Research Director and a Reader in Electronic Systems within Newcastle University's School of Engineering and the co-founder of Mignon AI (specialising in logic-based machine learning microchip designs). He is the Director of new Stephenson Engineering AI Lab, which is a specialist microsystems research and development facility as part of Newcastle University’s £110m strategic investment. He has acted as PI/CI on several projects with a total value of £17.1m. He has contributed to 5 patents, and more than 170 published journal and conference articles and co-edited a popular Springer USA book: Energy-efficient Fault-tolerant Systems. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of IET.