Al Smith

Al Smith is a skilled engineer currently serving as a Staff Engineer at Arm since December 2022, focusing on mobile SoC prototypes and infrastructure-class SoCs. Prior experience includes leadership as Engineering Manager at Adder Technology, where Al directed a firmware/FPGA team in high-speed electronic hardware development for video and image processing. As Principal Consultant at PA Consulting, Al specialized in custom embedded hardware systems with an emphasis on SoC and FPGA designs for various applications. Research contributions as a Research Associate at Imperial College London involved digital signal processing systems and optimization theory, complemented by a post-doctoral role at the University of British Columbia focusing on FPGA routing architecture. Al holds a Ph.D. in Digital Electronics and an MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London.