Dr. Umer Farooq is working as an Academic Researcher at the School of Engineering of the University of Sunderland, UK. Dr. Umer has more than ten years of teaching and research experience in higher education. He has published over sixty papers in peer-reviewed journals, as well as conference papers in his domain. His research interests include embedded systems, reconfigurable computing, CAD flow, FPGA architectures, machine learning, and deep learning.