Our collaborators in the Silicon Intelligence Laboratory are faculty members, Ph.D students, M.S. graduates and students in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Faculty

Prof. Sied Mehdi Fakhraie

PhD Candidates

 

Ali Azarpeyvand received B.Sc. Degree in computer hardware from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1997, and M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2000. from July 1998 to August 2006 I was a senior digital design engineer in Emad Semicon Company and MERDCI. In September 2001 I have joined Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran, as an instructor. Since Feb. 2007 I have been PhD condidate in ECE Department, University of Tehran.

 

Neda Kazemian received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003 from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Iran in 2007. Her research interests are speech compression, Voice over IP (VoIP), VLSI design of communication systems, and implementation of high-performance, low-power arithmetic units.

 

Hamed Dorosti received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Teran, Tehran, Iran (Sep. 2009 and 2011). Currently, he is Ph.D. student of Computer Architecture in Electrical and Computer Engineering department of University of Tehran,Tehran.

M.Sc. Candidates

 

Mohammad Aliasgari

 

Alireza Mazraee Farahani

 

Amin Salari

 

Shamim Keshani

 

Javad Birjandtalab

 

Farzad Farshchi

 

Arman Pouraghili

UnderGraduate

Sina Gholamian was born in March 1987 in Shushtar, Iran. He is doing the fourth year of Computer Engineering B.S. subfield of Hardware at University of Tehran, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. He has joined Silicon Intelligence and VLSI Signal Processing Lab since Feb. 2008.He is currently working on Design and implementation of fast, low-area, and fault-tolerant array multiplier for DSP applications with graceful degradation under supervision of Dr. Seid Mehdi Fakhraie.

 

Alumni

 

Soroush Gorji was born in Shiraz, Iran, In 1986. He received the B.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering ( Bioelectrics) from Amir Kabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, In 2008 and the M.S. degree in Electronics ( Circuit and Systems) from University of Tehran, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2011. He has joined the Silicon Intelligence and VLSI Signal Processing Lab since Feb. 2009. His main research interests are Design and Implementation of VLSI Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Low Power Digital Integrated Circuit Design, Reliable Computing in Nano Technology, Bio-Inspired and Intelligent Computing, Biomedical Signal Processing.

Hamid Reza Mahdiani

Mostafa Salehi received a BS degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2001, and a master's degree in computer engineering from The Amirkabir University of Technology in 2003.  His research interests include computer architecture, network processors, embedded systems, and high-performance and low-power architectures for digital systems.

Mehdi Ahmadi received his B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran (Sep. 2006). Currently, he is an M.Sc. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering department of University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. He is working on his M.Sc. thesis entitled "Bit True Modeling of 802.22 (WRAN) standard, considering the implementation challenges".

 

Pooya Monshizadeh Naeeni received his B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from Amir Kabir University of Tehran (Polytechnic), Iran (Sep. 2007). Currently, he is an M.Sc. student of Electronics Engineering (circuits and systems) at the University of Tehran, Iran. His main research interest includes algorithms for Digital Watermarking and their optimization for hardware implementation.

 

Farshad Firouzi

 

Amir Yazdanbakhsh was born in Shiraz, Iran, 1984. He recieved the B.Sc. degree from Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 2007. He is a research assistant in  School of ECE, University of Tehran. His research interests include Computer Architecture, Reconfigurable Design, Embedded System Design, Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) design, Extensible processor design, high-performance and low-power architectures for digital systems, Task Mapping and Scheduling and Computer Aided Design with a particular focus on Network Processors. He has joined the Silicon Intelligence and VLSI Signal Processing Lab since Sep. 2008. He is currently working on desing of high performance MPSoC architectures with special focus on Network Processors under supervision of Dr. Seid Mehdi Fakhraie and Dr. Saeed Safari.

 

Zohre Sharifi received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering (Bioelectrics) from Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, in 2007. She is a research assistant in School of ECE, University of Tehran. Her research interests include in voice coding algorithms, hardware and software implementation of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) blocks for voice codec.

Ali Ahmadi received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Isfahan, Iran in 2006. He also has received his MSc degree in Computer Architecture at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. His research interests include Fault-Tolerant systems, reliable computing, bio-inspired computing, DSP system Implementation, Verification and Test of digital systems, computer architecture, and FPGA/ASIC design.

 

Shervin Vakili He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and University of Tehran in 2006 and 2009 respectively. He has joined the Silicon Intelligence and VLSI Signal Processing Lab since Sep. 2007. He is currently working on design of novel and high performance MPSoC architectures under supervision of Dr. Sied Mehdi Fakhraie and Dr. Siamak Mohammadi.

 

Ashkan Jalili He received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Tehran in 2009. He has joined the Silicon Intelligence and VLSI Signal Processing Lab since Sep. 2007. His main research interest is design and implementation of VLSI signal processing and communication systems

 

Rasoul Yousefi received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from university of shiraz, Shiraz, Iran, in 2006. He also has received his MSc degree in Electronics (circuit and system) at university of Tehran. His main research interest includes ASICs for DSP, Reliable computing in VLSI, wireless communication systems and FPGA/ASIC design.

 

 

Amin Farmahini-Farahani received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2005. Currently, He also has received his MSc degree in Computer Architecture from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran in 2008. His research interests include computer architecture, reconfigurable computing, bio-inspired computing, on-chip multiprocessing, HW/SW codesign, and FPGA/ASIC design. He is currently a student member of IEEE.

 

Mohammad Reza Ghaderi received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, In 2005. He also has received his MSc degree in Electronics  from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran in 2008. His main research interests are design and fabricating ultra low power communication systems such as RFID tags and sensor network nodes and state of the art RF, Analog and Mixed Signal IC design.

 

Mahdi Hamzeh received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 2004 as a top student from Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran. From 2005 to present, He is an M.Sc. student of Computer Architecture at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. He is a research assistant in School of ECE, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. He works on designing and implementing hardware architectures for fuzzy processing engines with time and power constraints under the supervision of Dr. Sied Mehdi Fakhraie and Prof. Caro Lucas. His research interests include reconfigurable computing, embedded systems, on-chip multiprocessing, wireless sensor networks, parallel architectures, and computer aided design. He is currently a student member of IEEE..

 

Fatemeh Kashfi received her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2005. She also has received his MSc degree in Electronics (Circuit and System) from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran in 2008. Her thesis is based on high speed digital circuits implementation. Her research interests also include data converters and RF IC design.
 

Ahmad Saghafi received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in July 2003 from Semnan University, Semnan, Iran. From September 2003 to October 2006, he was an M.Sc. student of Electrical Engineering at Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. In December 2004, he joined the "Silicon Intelligence and VLSI Signal Processing Laboratory" at the University of Tehran as a graduate research assistant and started working on his master thesis entitled "Design of Baseband Section of a Coherent UWB Receiver" under the direct supervision of Prof. Sied Mehdi Fakhraie. His research interests include design and implementation of VLSI signal processing and communication systems, signal processing for communications, and ultra-wideband system design. He has served as TPC member and reviewer in several international conferences and has been a student member of IEEE since January 2005.

 

Pouya Saeedi received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Hardware Engineering in 2005 as a top student from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Since 2005, he is an M.Sc. student of Computer Architecture at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. He is a research assistant in SILAB, School of ECE, University of Tehran. He works on designing and implementing hardware engines for bio-inspired algorithms under the supervision of Dr. Sied Mehdi Fakhraie and Dr. Siamak Mohammadi. His research interests include reconfigurable computing, bio-inspired computing, on-chip multiprocessing, parallel architectures, computer aided design, HW/SW codesign, network-on-chip and application specific hardware cores.

 

Naser Sedaghati Mokhtari received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (Hardware) from Ferdowsi University of Mashad, Iran in 2004. He also has received his MSc degree in Computer Architecture from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran in 2007. His research interests include Multiprocessor Systems, Computer Architecture, Design, Verification and Test of digital systems, Embedded Systems, and VLSI for Communication Systems
 

Shahab Rahmanian received the B.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, in 2004 and M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 2007. His research interests include design, modeling and VLSI implementation of Digital Communication Systems, OFDM Receiver Design and VLSI Implementation of Digital Filters.

 

Elahe Rahmani received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tehran university and M.S. degree at Tehran university, in 2007. Her research interests include wireless communication and implementation of digital transceivers.

 

Zoha Pajouhi  received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in Sharif University of Technology in 2004 and MSc degree from Tehran University in 2007.

Nariman Moezzi Madani has received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Control), University of Tehran, Iran. He also has received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from School of ECE, University of Tehran, Iran.

Abbas Banayian Mofrad  received the B.Sc. degrees in Computer Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2002 and the M.Sc. degree in Computer Architecture from University of Tehran in 2006. His research interests include DSP processors, fuzzy systems, NoC/SoC design and test, and high-level synthesis.

Mahdi Nazm Bojnordi received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (hardware) from Shiraz University , Iran (Sept. 2003). Also, he finished his graduate studies in Computer Engineering (Computer Architectures) in school of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran (Sept. 2006). Currently, he is an invited professor to the Shiraz University-Branch of Qeshm  for presenting three courses of programming including Fundamental of Programming with C, Advanced Programming with Java, and Data Structures in C. His research interests include parallel architectures, video processing, SoC/NoC design and test, encryption architectures, and programming with all languages for both software and hardware development.

Ehsan Rohani received his diploma in Shahid Beheshti (nodet) pre University, Sari, Iran, on June 1999. He has received his B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from EE Department, University of AmirKabir, Tehran, Iran. He has received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from School of ECE., University of Tehran, Iran.

 

Mehdi Salmani Jelodar has received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran. He has received his M.Sc. in Computer Architecture from School of ECE, University of Tehran, Iran.

 

Hamed Holisaz has received his B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, in EE Deptartment, University of AmirKabir, Tehran, Iran. He has received his M.Sc. in Computer Architecture from School of ECE, University of Tehran, Iran.

 

Ardavan Pedram has received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. He has received his M.Sc. in Computer Architecture from School of ECE, University of Tehran, Iran.

 

Saeed Shamshiri has received his B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran. He also has received his M.Sc. in Computer Architecture from School of ECE, University of Tehran, Iran.

 

Hadi Esmaeilzadeh received his B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering in 2002 from University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran as the top student. He also has received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Tehran. He has contributed to various issues of digital systems design and test which are published in international journals and conferences including high-level synthesis, online processor testing, high-level system specification, object-oriented hardware design, distributed simulation, low-power testing, SoC/SoPC implementation, embedded system design, parallel processing, and stream processing.

 

Mohammad Alisafaee received a B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 2002, and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Architecture from University of Tehran in 2005. His research interests includes parallel computer architecture, network processors, embedded systems and on-line testing of digital systems.

 

Somayyeh Rahimian Omam has received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from School of ECE., University of Tehran, Iran.

 

Maryam Mortazavi has received his M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from School of ECE., University of Tehran, Iran.