Professor Khaled Benkrid

Visiting Professor , Anglia Ruskin University (ARU)

Prof. Khaled Benkrid is Managing Director of Synthaize Ltd, an agentic AI startup he recently founded to support human decision making under extreme uncertainty. He is also Visiting Professor in Computer Science at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. 

Before setting up Synthaize, Prof. Benkrid was Senior Director of Education and Research at Arm Ltd for 13 years where he was responsible for directing the overall operations of a cross-cultural team of 20+ professionals from Cambridge, UK, China, India, and the USA with the focus of addressing the gap between computer engineering education & research and actual market practices. The programmes he set up at Arm enabled hundreds of thousands of students, academics, and engineers worldwide to learn and innovate with state-of-the-art technologies from the Arm ecosystem. 

Prior to joining Arm, Prof. Benkrid spent 13 years in Academia, as Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast, and then Associate Professor in Electronic Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests spanned software-hardware co-design, electronic design automation, and efficient embedded and high-performance computing.