Curriculum Vitae
Sam Amiri, Bc, Mgr, RNDr, PhD
Lecturer in analogue and digital electronics, School of Computing, Electronics and Maths, Coventry University, Coventry, UK, CV1 2JH
Contact: ad0246@coventry.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/samamiri38/
Expertise:
· FPGA-CPU heterogeneous design: Innovative solutions for scheduling of parallel application execution on different compute units of a heterogeneous device for improved performance and energy consumption, using the SDSoC tools.
· Hardware design: Experience of working in all stages of FPGA design cycle: Requirements detection and specification, design (including architecting speed, area and power), coding, synthesis, testing, timing closure, place and route, and documentation.
· Design methodologies for complex image processing systems: Design of tools for mapping dataflow model representations of image processing applications into efficient FPGA solutions including multi softcore architecture design, decomposition and compilation toolset and actor/core mapping, and processing-system/programmable-logic communication setup.
· Acceleration of machine learning algorithms: Programmable solutions for acceleration of machine learning algorithms including multi-precision convolutional neural networks (CNNs), composed of deep full-precision CNN and binarized CNN, with the former running on CPU and the latter on FPGA of an SoC device for higher throughput and inference accuracy.
· Design of Digital Signal Processing systems: Innovative solutions for digital processing of signals in both time and frequency domains, including optimum-filter based techniques and use of measures of fit to separate pulses of almost similar shapes in a mixed environment.
· Reliable systems measurements and design: Innovative solutions for reliability/availability/Mean-Time-To-Failure measurements of parallel/standby/NMR systems, and their test generation.
· Evaluation of sensor motes and networks: Measurements of performance and power consumption and mathematical evaluation of lifetime bounds of sensors in a network.
Major Skills/Programming-Languages/IDEs:
· Digital Design: HDLs (Verilog, VHDL), Xilinx Vivado, HLS, SDSoC, Altera Quartus, ModelSim, PIC Microcontrollers, MPLAB
· Others: MATLAB, OpenCV, Caffe, Python, C, C++
Education
· 2010–2014, Neutron/gamma-ray measurement and discrimination, Doctorate, Masaryk University.
· 2010–2012, Neutron/gamma-ray measurement and discrimination, RNDr. (Advanced Procedure), Masaryk University.
- Passed rigorous doctoral examination and gained RNDr. title.
· 2008–2010, Measurements of energy consumption and execution times on Tmote Sky sensor nodes, Masters, Masaryk University.
- Passed M.Sc. with honours and ranked among the best 7 percent of the students.
Experience
· 2017–2018: Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol
· 2015–2017: Research Fellow, School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen’s University Belfast
· 2011–2014: Researcher, Technology Agency of the Czech Republic
· 2010–2015: Teacher, Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics — Brno, Czech Republic
1. Design of Digital Systems II (2010–2015)
2. Digital Systems Diagnostics II (2010–2015)
3. Architecture of Digital Systems II (2011–2015)
4. Digital Signal Processing (2012–2015)
5. Secure Hardware-Based System Design (2013–2015)
Master’s Student Supervising
Abdullah Al-Shbatat, “Analysis of the spectrum of radiation detectors”, 2014, Masaryk University.
Awards
· 2015: Rector’s award for an outstanding doctoral thesis
https://www.fi.muni.cz/about/awards/masaryk-university.html.en
· 2014: Dean’s award for an outstanding doctoral thesis
https://www.fi.muni.cz/studies/doctoral/awards.html.en
· 2010: Dean’s award for excellent academic performance in Masters level
https://www.fi.muni.cz/about/awards/awards.html.en