Sam Ainsworth is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Systems and Hardware Security within the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His research looks at runtime, systems and hardware security, along with architectural and compiler techniques for data prefetching in software and hardware, particularly for irregular and big data workloads, and efficient techniques for hardware error detection and correction. He received a PhD (2018) and BA (2014) in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.