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0416 EBU2
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Abdollahi, Afshin

Assistant Professor

Bourns College of Engineering

Electrical Engineering


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.

Former Institution

University of Southern California

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.