I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I received my M.S. and BCs degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Tehran (UT), Tehran in March 2014 and September 2011 respectively. Currently, I am a recipient of the Jacobs School Powell Fellowship at UC San Diego.
I am a member of System Energy Efficiency Lab (SeeLab) working with Professor Tajana Rosing. My research is focused on approximate computing, embedded systems and computer architecture. I am searching for alternative architecture to address computation bottleneck including approximate computing, neuromorphic computing, near-data computing and processing in-NVM. This includes circuit, architectural and user levels work to make computation more energy efficient while delivering acceptable quality of service. 
Based on my research and students interest, we opened a new sub-group in SeeLab, Alternative Computing and Memory Systems (ACMS), where I am mentoring seven SMART graduate and undergrad students. In ACMS, we are actively working on several projects including: 
​- Daniel Perioni, Tunable approximate computing
- Deqian Kong, Neuromorphic computing
- John F Hwang, Neuromorphic computing
- Yan Cheng, Resistive near-data computing
- Atl Arredondo, Machine learning acceleration 
​- Debanjan Chatterjee, Hardware security/privacy acceleration
- Justin H Chang, In-memory processing



What's New? 
Sept 2016. Accepted paper in ASPDAC 2017!   
Aug 2016. ICCD'16 paper selected as top ranked paper for publishing in IEEE TETC! 
Aug 2016. Accepted paper in ICCD 2016! 
June 2016. DAC paper presentation, Austin!
June 2016. Being nominated for the Outstanding Graduate Student Award at UCSD!
June 2016. Accepted paper in NVMSA 2016!
June 2016. Accepted paper in Techcon conference 2016!
May 2016. GLSVLSI paper presentation, Boston!
May 2016. Accepted paper in MEMSYS Conference! Washington DC
May 2016. Defensed my proposal!! (PhD Candidate)
May 2016. Accepted paper in ISLPED for long presentation, San Francisco!
April 2016. Accepted paper in IEEE Transaction on Emerging Topics Computing! 
April 2016. Research Expo'16 poster presentation.
March 2015. ISQED paper presentation, Santa Clara!
February 2016. Accepted GLSVLSI 2016 papers!
January 2016. "From non-volatile memory to approximate computing" talk at UCSD seminar class [Slide].
December 2015. Accepted ISQED 2016 papers!
November 2015. Accepted DATE 2016 papers!
November 2015. ICCAD paper presentation [Slide], Austin!
July 2015. Nanoarch conference paper presentation, Boston!
June 2015. Accepted ICCAD 2015 paper!!
June 2015. DAC conference paper presentation, San Francisco!
May 2015. Research exam passed!
April 2015. Research Expo'15 poster presentation.
March 2015. NVMW poster presentation!
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