Professor Themis Prodromakis named Fellow of the British Computer Society
AI visionary Professor Themis Prodromakis from the University of Southampton has been appointed as a Fellow of the British Computer Society, the Chartered Institute for IT.
The accolade recognises the impact of researchers who are acting as thought leaders that push UK industry forward.
Professor Prodromakis holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in the Zepler Institute for Photonics and Nanoelectronics, and is the Principal Investigator of the FORTE programme, which is revamping modern electronic technologies with metal-oxide beyond-CMOS devices, known as memristors.
He also serves as the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology (ICoN), Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nanoelectronic Devices and Systems (MINDS) and Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers at the University of Southampton, UK.
Professor Prodromakis says: "I am delighted to be appointed as a Fellow of the British Computer Society. This award comes at a timely moment, with the establishment of our new Centre for Electronics Frontiers, and is a recognition of our researchers efforts to develop more efficient computing architectures for embedding AI everywhere."
The Centre for Electronics Frontiers brings together diverse expertise ranging from materials science and electronic devices to circuits and systems for transforming modern society through technology.
Professor Prodromakis was awarded his Chair in Emerging Technologies in 2019, following the award of a Royal Society Industry Fellowship in 2017. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Physics.
He is an Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia, visiting Professor at the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London.
In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 17 countries and in 2019 he founded SoneT.ai that is building new power-efficient hardware solutions.