Mohamed Abdelfattah
Co-Founder And Chief Science Officer at Cornell University
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMohamed Abdelfattah is a researcher and technology entrepreneur with 11 years of experience at the intersection of hardware, machine learning, and reconfigurable computing. As Co‑Founder and Chief Science Officer at Makora and an Assistant Professor at Cornell/Cornell Tech, he translates academic innovations into practical tools for efficient on‑device AI. His background includes leading AutoML and hardware-aware deep learning optimization at Samsung, building ML accelerators and OpenCL-to-Verilog toolchains at Intel, and creating FPGA architectures and CAD tools during his PhD. He has a strong track record of raising abstraction in hardware design—demonstrated by work on embedded NoCs and pre-configuration FPGA testing—that reduces design effort while saving area and power. Based in the New York City area, he combines rigorous academic credentials with hands‑on systems and compiler engineering to push ML closer to the silicon.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Electronics, B.Sc. Electronics at The German University in CairoEl Alsson SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at University of TorontoM.Sc. Embedded Systems, M.Sc. Embedded Systems at University of Stuttgart
English, German, Arabic, French
Github Skills (9)
evaluation8
benchmark7
timelinejs6
codegen6
gpu5
javascript4
xilinx4
neural-network2
accelerator2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mohsaied/rtl2booksim
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 9 pushes in 11 months
abdelfattah-class/ece5545
Jan 2022 - Jan 2025
Course Website for Graduate Course: Research in Computer Networks
Contributions:66 pushes in 3 years 1 month
graduate-coursecomputer-networkscourse-websitegraduate
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