Abdelhafid El Ouardi received the M.S. degree from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 2001 and the Ph.D degree in Electronics from Paris-Sud University in 2005. He worked at Henri Poincaré University, Nancy, as a researcher in 2005–2006. He is currently an Associate Professor at Paris-Sud University, France. In the Embedded Systems team of SATIE lab, his research interests include Hardware–Software co-design, evaluation and instrumentation of embedded systems, design of smart architectures for image and signal processing, and SLAM applications.