PUBLISHED WORK
2025
Deniz Najafi, Wanhao Yu, Mehrdad Morsali, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Li Yang and Shaahin Angizi - "Dyna-Optics: Architecting a Channel-Adaptive DNN Near-Sensor Optical Accelerator for Dynamic Inference" - Accepted at IEEE COINS 2025
Mehrdad Morsali, Deniz Najafi, Amin Shafiee, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani, Arman Roohi, Navid Khoshavi, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi - "Event-Driven Spatiotemporal Processing-In-Sensor with Phase Change Memory-based Optical Acceleration" - Accepted at GLSVLSI 2025
Ganapati Bhat and Pietro Mercati - "Special Issue on Wearable IoT Devices for Reliable Mobile Health Applications" - IEEE Design and Test 2025
[preprint] Deepak Vungarala, Md Hasibul Amin, Pietro Mercati, Arnob Ghosh, Arman Roohi, Ramtin Zand, Shaahin Angizi - "LIMCA: LLM for Automating Analog In-Memory Computing Architecture Design Exploration" - arxiv 2025
Deepak Vungarala, Md Hasibul Amin, Pietro Mercati, Arman Roohi, Ramtin Zand, Shaahin Angizi - "LLM-IMC: Automating Analog In-Memory Computing Architecture Generation with Large Language Models" - IEEE FCCM 2025
Yang Ni, Zhuowen Zou, Wenjun Huang, Hanning Chen, William Youngwoo Chung, Samuel Cho, Ranganath Krishnan, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani - "HEAL: Brain-inspired Hyperdimensional Efficient Active Learning" - IEEE Transactions on AI 2025
2024
Yang Ni, Danny Abraham, Mariam Issa, Alejandro Hernandez-Cano, Mahdi Imani, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani - "Dynamic MAC Protocol for Wireless Spectrum Sharing via Hyperdimensional Self-Learning" - IEEE Access 2024
Chien-Yi Yang, Minxuan Zhou, Flavio Ponzina, Suraj Sathya Prakash, Raid Ayoub, Pietro Mercati, Mahesh Subedar, Tajana Rosing - "Multi-Objective Software-Hardware Co-Optimization for HD-PIM via Noise-Aware Bayesian Optimization" - ICCAD 2024
Pietro Mercati and Ganapati Bhat - "Self-Sustainable Wearable and Internet of Things (IoT) Devices for Health Monitoring: Opportunities and Challenges" - IEEE Design and Test 2024
2023
Yang Ni, Hanning Chen, Prathyush Poduval, Zhuowen Zou, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani - "Brain-inspired Trustworthy Hyperdimensional Computing with Efficient Uncertainty Quantification" - ICCAD 2023
Yang Ni, Danny Abraham, Mariam Issa, Yeseong Kim, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani - "Efficient Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning via Brain-Inspired Computing" - GLSVLSI 2023
Jiajung Shen, Kananart Kuwaranancharoen, Raid Ayoub, Pietro Mercati, Shreyas Sundaram - "On the Benefits of Leveraging Structural Information in Planning Over the Learned Model" - ACC 2023
2022
Jerry Sidir, Bin Li, Pietro Mercati, Charlie Tai, Ravi Iyer, Mike Kishinevsky, Boris Serafimov - "DPM-NFV: Dynamic Power Management Framework for 5G User Plane Function using Bayesian Optimization" - Globecom 2022
Kazim Ergun, Raid Ayoub, Pietro Mercati, Tajana Rosing - "Dynamic Reliability Management of Multi-Gateway IoT Edge Computing Systems" - IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022
Kazim Ergun, Raid Ayoub, Pietro Mercati, Tajana Rosing - "Reinforcement Learning Based Reliability-Aware Routing in IoT Networks" - Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal 2022
2021
Derrsie Mebratu, Niranjan Hasabnis, Pietro Mercati , Gaurit Sharma, Shamima Najnin - "Automatic Tuning of Tensorflow’s CPU Backend using Gradient-Free Optimization Algorithms" - ML-HPC 2021
Kazim Ergun, Pietro Mercati, Raid Ayoub, Tajana Rosing - "Improving Mean Time to Failure of IoT Networks with Reliability-Aware Routing" - IEEE MECO 2021
Qian Li, Bin Li, Pietro Mercati, Ramesh Illikal, Charlie Tai, Mike Kishinevsky, Christos Kozyrakis - "RAMBO: Resource Allocation for Microservices using Bayesian Optimization" - IEEE Computer Architecture Letters 2021
Pietro Mercati, Bin Li, Mesut Ergin, Charlie Tai, Mike Kishinevsky, Boris Serafimov, Subhiksha Ravisundar, Eoin Walsh, Thomas Long - "MOBO-NFV: Automated Tuning of a Network Function Virtualization System using Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization" - IEEE IM 2021
Kazim Ergun, Pietro Mercati, Raid Ayoub, Tajana Rosing - "Energy and QoS-Aware Dynamic Reliability Management of IoT Edge Computing Systems" - ASP-DAC 2021
2020
Kazim Ergun , Xiaofan Yu, Nitish Nagesh, Ludmilla Cherkasova, Pietro Mercati, Ayoub, Tajana Rosing - "Simulating Reliability of IoT Networks with RelIoT" - DSN 2020
Kazim Ergun, Xiaofan Yu, Nitish Nagesh, Ludmilla Cherkasova, Pietro Mercati, Raid Ayoub, Tajana Rosing - "RelIoT: Reliability Simulator for IoT Networks" - ICIOT 2020
2019
Kazim Ergun, Raid Ayoub, Pietro Mercati, Tajana Rosing - "Dynamic Optimization of Battery Health in IoT Networks" - ICCD 2019
2018
Mohsen Imani, Abbas Rahimi, Pietro Mercati, Tajana Rosing - "Multi-stage Tunable Approximate Search in Resistive Associative Memory" - IEEE TMSCS 2018
2017
Yeseong Kim, Pietro Mercati, Emily Shriver, Ankit More, Tajana Rosing - "P4: Phase-Based Power/Performance Prediction of Heterogeneous Systems via Neural Networks" - ICCAD 2017
Pietro Mercati, Raid Ayoub, Mike Kishinevsky, Eric Samson, Marc Beuchat, Francesco Paterna, Tajana Rosing - "Multi-variable Dynamic Power Management for the GPU Subsystem" - DAC 2017
2016
Pietro Mercati, Francesco Paterna, Andrea Bartolini, Luca Benini, Tajana Rosing - "WARM: Workload-Aware Reliability Management in Linux/Android" - IEEE TCAD 2016
Yeseong Kim, Pietro Mercati, Tajana Rosing - "Power Efficient, Hierarchical, Introspection framework for HPC Systems" - TECHCON 2016
Pietro Mercati and Tajana Rosing - "Convex Optimization and Model Identification for Reliable and Energy Efficient QoS-Aware IoT Systems" - TECHCON 2016
Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani, Andrea Bartolini, Francesco Paterna, Luca Benini, Tajana Rosing - "VarDroid: Online Variability Emulation in Android/Linux Platforms" - GLSVLSI 2016
Mohsen Imani, Pietro Mercati, Tajana Rosing - "ReMAM: Low Energy Resistive Multi-Stage Associative Memory for Energy Efficient Computing" - ISQED 2016
2015
Pietro Mercati, Francesco Paterna, Andrea Bartolini, Luca Benini, Tajana Rosing - "Variability Emulation on Real Linux/Android Devices" - TECHCON 2015
Pietro Mercati, Vinayak Hanumaiah, Jitendra Kulkarni, Simon Bloch, Tajana Rosing - "BLAST: Battery Lifetime-constrained Adaptation with Selected Target" - MOBIQUITOUS 2015
Lucas Wanner, Liangzhen Lai, Abbas Rahimi, Mark Gottscho, Pietro Mercati, Chu-Hsiang Huang, Frederic Sala, Yuvraj Agarwal, Lara Dolecek, Nikil Dutt, Puneet Gupta, Rajesh Gupta, Ranjit Jhala, Rakesh Kumar, Sorin Lerner, Subhasish Mitra, Alexandru Nicolau, Tajana Simunic Rosing, Mani B Srivastava, Steve Swanson, Dennis Sylvester, Yuanyuan Zhou - "NSF Expedition of Variability-Aware Software:Recent Results and Contributions" - Information Technology Journal 2015
2014
Pietro Mercati, Vinayak Hanumaiah, Jitendra Kulkarni, Simon Bloch, Tajana Rosing - "User-centric Joint Power and Thermal Management for Smartphones" - MOBICASE 2014
Pietro Mercati, Andrea Bartolini, Francesco Paterna, Luca Benini, Tajana Rosing - "Dynamic Variability Management in Mobile Multicore Processors under Lifetime Constraints" - ICCD 2014
Pietro Mercati, Andrea Bartolini, Francesco Paterna, Luca Benini, Tajana Rosing - "An On-line Reliability Emulation Framework" - EUC 2014
Pietro Mercati, Andrea Bartolini, Francesco Paterna, Tajana Rosing, Luca Benini - "A Linux-Governor Based Dynamic Reliability Manager for Android Mobile Devices" - DATE 2014
2013
Pietro Mercati, Andrea Bartolini, Francesco Paterna, Luca Benini, Tajana Rosing - "Workload and User Experience-Aware Dynamic Reliability Management in Multicore Processors" - DAC 2013
PATENTS
2020
Renji Thomas, Chris Binns, Pietro Mercati, Jianfang Zhu, Ashraaf H. Wadaa, Mike Kishinevsky - "Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to optimize thread scheduling" - Intel Corporation.
2018
Pietro Mercati, Raid Ayoub, Michael Kishinevsky, Eric C. Samson, Marc Beuchat, Francesco Paterna - "Dynamically selecting optimum graphics frequency and graphics power gating configuration" - Intel Corporation.
TEACHING
2016
Summer session classes at UCSD: cse-140 and cse140-l
PREVIOUS RESEARCH WORK
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For my Bachelor thesis I have been working at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) in Bologna, Italy.
My contributions were acknowledged in these two articles:
Stefano Frabboni, Alessandro Gabrielli, Gian Carlo Gazzadi, Filippo Giorgi, Giorgio Matteucci, Giulio Pozzi, Nicola Semprini Cesari, Mauro Villa, Antonio Zoccoli - The Young-Feynman two-slits experiment with single electrons: Build-up of the interference pattern and arrival-time distribution using a fast-readout pixel detector - Ultramicroscopy 2012
Alessandro Gabrielli, Filippo Giorgi, Nicola Semprini, Mauro Villa, Antonio Zoccoli, Giorgio Matteucci, Giulio Pozzi, Stefano Frabboni, Gian Carlo Gazzadi - A 4096-pixel MAPS detector used to investigate the single-electron distribution in a Young–Feynman two-slit interference experiment - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 2013