Andrew Boutros

Andrew Boutros is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He received his BSc in electronics engineering from the German University in Cairo in 2016, and his MASc and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto in 2018 and 2024, respectively. His research interests include architecture and CAD tools for reconfigurable computer hardware, and domain-specific acceleration for computationally demanding workloads. During and prior to his PhD, Dr. Boutros spent 4 years as a research scientist at Intel Labs and Intel’s Programmable Solutions Group (now Altera) and then led the Toronto office of MangoBoost, a startup developing specialized accelerators for datacenter infrastructure tasks. He has published over 30 papers and won 4 best paper awards in the area of reconfigurable computing.

• Reconfigurable Computing
• Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Architecture
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Domain-Specific Acceleration

• 2024, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2018, MASc, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
• 2016, BSc, Electronics Engineering, German University in Cairo, Egypt

• 2023, Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology (FPT)
• 2021, Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics (ICM)
• 2018, Stamatis Vassiliadis Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL)
• 2015, Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig)

• Full and up-to-date list of publications on Google Scholar