Hamza Omar

Hamza Omar is currently a Senior GPU System Architect at Nvidia, where they focus on advancing AI architectures through the development of next-generation AI acceleration engines for cloud data centers. Prior to this role, Hamza held the position of Staff Engineer (SoC Architect) at Qualcomm, concentrating on machine learning architecture and data encoding schemes. Hamza earned a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Connecticut, where their dissertation explored creating efficient and secure execution environments for multicore systems. Their research interests encompass Computer Architecture, Approximate Computing, and Architectural Security, and they have contributed as a reviewer for prominent conferences and journals in the field.