Mohammed Bakr Sikal
- room: B2-317.1
- phone: +49 721-608-48780
- fax: +49 721 608-43962
- bakr sikal ∂does-not-exist.kit edu
- Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7
Bldg. 07.21
76131 Karlsruhe
Publications
| Journals | |
|---|---|
| Konstantinos Balaskas, Heba Khdr, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Fabian Kreß, Kostas Siozios, Jürgen Becker, Jörg Henkel Heterogeneous Accelerator Design for Multi-DNN Workloads via Heuristic Optimization in Embedded Systems Letters (ESL, Volume 16, Issue4), ESWEEK24 Special Edition, DOI, PDF, Dec 2024. | |
| Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Lars Bauer, Heba Khdr, Jörg
Henkel Balancing Security and Efficiency: System-Informed Mitigation of Power-Based Covert Channels in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD, Volume 43, Issue 11), DOI, PDF, Nov 2024. | |
| Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Heba Khdr, Lokesh Siddhu, Jörg Henkel ML-Based Thermal and Cache Contention Alleviation on Clustered Manycores with 3-D HBM in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD, Volume 43, Issue 11), DOI, PDF, Nov 2024. |
| Conferences | |
|---|---|
| Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Hassan Nassar, Heba Khdr, Jörg Henkel A Dataset for LLM-Based Detection of Power-Wasters in Routed FPGA Netlists in IEEE International Conference on LLM-Aided Design (LAD), Stanford, CA (ACCEPTED), Jun 26 - 27 2025. | |
| Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Heba Khdr, Jörg Henkel Contention-Aware Forecasting of Energy Efficiency through Sequence-Based Models in Modern Heterogeneous Processors in 62nd Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco (ACCEPTED), Jun 22 - 25 2025. | |
| Heba Khdr, Mustafa Enes Batur, Kanran Zhou, Mohammed Bakr Sikal and Jörg Henkel Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Thermally-Restricted Performance Optimization in Manycores in Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'24), PDF, Mar 25 - 27 2024. | |
| Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Heba Khdr, Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel Smart Detection of Obfuscated Thermal Covert Channel Attacks in Many-core Processors in 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, DOI, PDF, Jul 9-13 2023. | |
| Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Heba Khdr, Martin Rapp, Jörg Henkel Machine Learning-based Thermally-Safe Cache Contention Mitigation in Clustered Manycores in 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, DOI, PDF, Jul 9-13 2023. | |
| Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Heba Khdr, Martin Rapp, Jörg Henkel Thermal- and Cache-Aware Resource Management based on ML-Driven Cache Contention Prediction in IEEE/ACM 25th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'22), Antwerp, Belgium, DOI, PDF, Mar 14-23 2022. |   |
| Martin Rapp, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Heba Khdr, Jörg Henkel SmartBoost: Lightweight ML-Driven Boosting for Thermally-Constrained Many-Core Processors in 58th Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, DOI, PDF, Dec 5-9 2021. |  |
| Books / Book Chapter | |
|---|---|
| Nidhi Anantharajaiah, Tamim Asfour, Michael Bader, Lars Bauer, Jürgen Becker, Simon Bischof, Marcel Brand, Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Christian Eichler, Khalil Esper, Joachim Falk, Nael Fasfous, Felix Freiling, Andreas Fried, Michael Gerndt, Michael Glaß, Jeferson Gonzalez, Frank Hannig, Christian Heidorn, Jörg Henkel, Andreas Herkersdorf, Benedict Herzog, Jophin John, Timo Hönig, Felix Hundhausen, Heba Khdr, Tobias Langer, Oliver Lenke, Fabian Lesniak, Alexander Lindermayr, Alexandra Listl, Sebastian Maier, Nicole Megow, Marcel Mettler, Daniel Müller-Gritschneder, Hassan Nassar, Fabian Paus, Alexander Pöppl, Behnaz Pourmohseni, Jonas Rabenstein, Phillip Raffeck, Martin Rapp, Santiago Narváez Rivas, Mark Sagi, Franziska Schirrmacher, Ulf Schlichtmann, Florian Schmaus, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Tobias Schwarzer, Mohammed Bakr Sikal, Bertrand Simon, Gregor Snelting, Jan Spieck, Akshay Srivatsa, Walter Stechele, Jürgen Teich, Furkan Turan, Isaías A. Comprés Ureña, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Dominik Walter, Thomas Wild, Stefan Wildermann, Mario Wille, Michael Witterauf, Li Zhang Invasive Computing in FAU University Press (Editors: Jürgen Teich, Jörg Henkel, Andreas Herkersdorf), DOI, PDF, Aug 2022. |
Student Theses
Abbreviation: B - Bachelor Thesis, M - Master Thesis
| Topic | Type of work | Mentor |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Many-Core Thermal Management (PDF) | M | Khdr, Heba / Sikal, Mohammed Bakr |
| Name | Type of work | Title | Mentor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdelrahim, Abdelazim | Bachelor thesis | Machine Learning for Resource Management | Sikal, Bakr / Khdr, Heba |
| Nöbel, Andreas | Bachelor thesis | Machine Learning for smart DVFS on heterogenous processors | Sikal, Bakr |
| Name | Type of work | Title | Mentor | Completion date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gouda, Adham Mahmoud Yakout | Bachelor thesis | Design and Development of an Integrated Platform for Warehouse Management Systems and Remote Forklift Operation | Sikal, Bakr | 2024-09-06 |
| Fritz, Samuel | Master thesis | ML-based resource management on real hardware | Sikal, Bakr / Khdr, Heba | 2024-03-31 |
| Steiner, Daniel | Master thesis | Machine Learning / Thermal Modeling / Resource Management in Manycores | Mohammed Bakr Sikal and Heba Khdr | 2024-03-31 |
| Shokeir, Omar | Bachelor thesis | Thermal Modeling of Multicore Processors | Sikal, Bakr | 2023-09-30 |
| Al Khiati, Mohamed Adnane | Bachelor thesis | ML-based Resource Management in 3D Processors | Sikal, Bakr | 2023-09-30 |
| Dietrich, Benedikt | Master thesis | Reinforcement Learning for Many-Core Power-Thermal Management | Khdr, Heba / Sikal, Bakr | 2023-08-01 |