Degrees
- Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 2006
- University of Southern California
- M.S. Electrical Engineering 2000
- Sharif University of Technology
- B.S. Electrical Engineering 1997
- Sharif University of Technology
Awards
Best Paper Award, Design Automation Conference (DAC),
Anaheim, CA, 2005.
Silver Medal in the 34th International Mathematics Olympiad, Turkey,
1993.
Second rank in Electrical Engineering National Olympiad, Iran 1997.
Second rank in the nationwide M.S. Program Contest, Iran 1997.
First ranks (Gold Medals) in Mathematics and Informatics (Computer
Science) National Olympiads, Iran 1993.
Research Area
• Low power design of VLSI CMOS circuits • Logic synthesis and verification • Quantum computation and quantum circuit synthesis • Fault tolerant computing in nano-technology
Publications
Afshin Abdollahi, Farzan Fallah and Massoud Pedram,
“A Robust Power Gating Structure and Power Mode Transition Strategy for
MTCMOS Design,” accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Very
Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems.
Afshin Abdollahi and Massoud Pedram, “Low Power RT-Level Synthesis
Techniques: A Tutorial,” IEE Proc. on Computers and Digital Techniques,
Volume 152, Issue 3, May 2005, pp. 333-343.
Afshin Abdollahi, Farzan Fallah and Massoud Pedram, “Leakage current
reduction in CMOS VLSI circuits by input vector control,” IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 12 ,
Issue: 2, Feb. 2004, pp. 140-154.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Afshin Abdollahi and Massoud Pedram, “Analysis and Synthesis of Quantum
Circuits by Using Quantum Decision Diagrams,” Proc. of Design Automation
and Test in Europe, Mar. 2006, pp.
Afshin Abdollahi and Massoud Pedram, “A New Canonical Form for Fast
Boolean Matching in Logic Synthesis and Verification,” Proc. of Design
Automation Conference, Jun. 2005, pp. 379-384. (Best Paper Award)
Afshin Abdollahi, Farzan Fallah and Massoud Pedram, “An Effective Power
Mode Transition Technique in MTCMOS Circuits,” Proc. of Design
Automation Conference, Jun. 2005, pp. 37-42.
Afshin Abdollahi and Massoud Pedram, “Efficient Synthesis of Quantum
Logic Circuits by Rotation-based Quantum Operators and Unitary
Functional Bi-decomposition,” Proc. of International Workshop on Logic
and Synthesis, Jun. 2005.
Afshin Abdollahi, Farzan Fallah and Massoud Pedram, “Analysis and
Optimization of Static Power Considering Transition Dependency of
Leakage Current in VLSI Circuits,” Proc. of International Symp. on
Quality Electronic Design, Mar. 2005, 77-82.
Afshin Abdollahi, Farzan Fallah, Massoud Pedram and Indradeep Ghosh
“Precomputation-based Guarding for Dynamic and Leakage Power Reduction,”
Proc. of International Conference on Computer Design, Oct. 2003, 90-97.
Afshin Abdollahi, Farzan Fallah and Massoud Pedram, “Leakage current
reduction in sequential circuits by modifying the scan chains,” Proc. of
International Symp. on Quality Electronic Design, Mar. 2003, 49-54.
Afshin Abdollahi, Farzan Fallah and Massoud Pedram, “Runtime Mechanisms
for Leakage Current Reduction in CMOS VLSI Circuits,” Proc. of Symp. on
Low Power Electronics and Design, Aug. 2002, 213-218.
BOOK CHAPTER
Afshin Abdollahi and Massoud Pedram “RT-Level Power Minimization
Techniques," In SoC: Next Generation Electronics, Edited by Bashir M.
Al-Hashimi, IEE Press, 2005.
Former Institution
University of Southern California
Biography
Afshin Abdollahi received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 1997 and 2000 respectively and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2006. His research interests are Quantum computation and quantum circuit synthesis, Nano-circuit fabrics and nano-technology, Logic synthesis and verification and low power design CAD methodologies. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the Best Paper Award in Design Automation Conference (DAC), Anaheim, CA, 2005 and Silver Medal in the 34th International Mathematics Olympiad, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993. He served as the organizer of the Young Student Support Program (YSSP) in the Design Automation Conference in 2005. He has published several articles and served as reviewer for a number of IEEE, IEE and ACM transactions and conference proceedings.
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6/14/2007
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