Mohamed Zahran is a faculty member at the Computer Science Department at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at  New York University.  His research interests span several aspects of computer architecture, such as architecture of heterogeneous systems, hardware/software interaction, and biologically inspired architectures. He received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Maryland at College Park. Prof. Zahran is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) , senior member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM  ),  and a member of Sigma Xi scientific  honor society. He has published many papers in premiere peer-reviewed venues, and he has served in program committees and as reviewer with prestigious conferences and journals, as well as with the National Science Foundation and the federal Department of Energy. Prof. Zahran published a book about new technologies in computer hardware in 2019. He has served as the general chair of the prestigious premier conference in the field of computer architecture: the 49th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architecture in 2022. Prof. Zahran has been writing a weekly column since 2016 about  technology, science, history of science and academic life, in  the Egyptian "Al Shorouk" magazine.