M. Hassan Najafi

M. Hassan Najafi
Assistant Professor
Lockheed Martin Endowed Professor
Center for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (University of Minnesota)

M. Hassan Najafi is an Assistant Professor with the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana. Hassan received his B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from the University of Isfahan, Iran, in 2011, his M.Sc. in Computer Architecture from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2014, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, in 2018. His research interests include: Stochastic and Approximate Computing, Low Power VLSI Design, Unary Processing, Hyperdimensional Computing, Machine Learning, Processing In Memory, and Computer Architecture. He authored/co-authored more than 75 peer-reviewed papers and has been granted 5 U.S. patents, with more pending. Hassan is an IEEE Senior Member.

Contact info: Najafi [at] Louisiana [dot] edu
Address: 301 E. Lewis Street, James R. Oliver Hall, Room 353, Lafayette, LA 70503, USA.

In recognition of his research, Hassan received:

The Prestigious NSF CAREER Award in Feb 2024
The Best Paper Award at the 33rd Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI'23) in June 2023
The Lockheed Martin Corporation Endowed Professorship in Computer Science/Computer Engineering in May 2023
The Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Professorship in Computing & Informatics in May 2022
The 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA)
The Best Research Award at the 2019 Design Automation Conference (DAC) PhD Forum
The Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD)
The Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and Department Fellowship from the University of Minnesota
The Feature Paper of the Month in the Oct 2017 Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Computers

News

Mar 2024. Accepted Paper in GLSVLSI'24
Mar 2024. Accepted Paper in DAC'24
Mar 2024. Two papers accepted in the 2nd WUC
Feb 2024. Award Received the NSF CAREER Award!
Feb 2024. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ISVLSI'24
Feb 2024. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for GLSVLSI'24
Feb 2024. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for the 2nd Workshop on Unary Computing (WUC) in conjunction with ASPLOS'24.
Feb 2024. Accepted paper in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
Jan 2024. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ISLPED'24
Jan 2024. Elected as the Chair of IEEE Lafayette Computer Chapter
Nov 2023. Accepted paper in DATE'24
Nov 2023. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for DAC'24
Oct 2023. Two papers accepted in NANOARCH'23
Oct 2023. Accepted paper in IEEE Embedded System Letters
Oct 2023. Science Day Outreach: hosting ~1000 high school students of the Acadiana Region
Oct 2023. Elevated to IEEE Senior Member
Oct 2023. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for NANOARCH'23
Sep 2022. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ISCAS'24
Sep 2023. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for DATE'24
Sep 2023. Accepted paper in ASP-DAC'24
Aug 2023. Invited talk in International Workshop on Dark Data, Seoul, South Korea (Virtual)
Aug 2023. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ASP-DAC'24
Jul 2023. Research Funding Award from Louisiana Space and Sea Grant [News]
Jul 2023. Accepted paper in IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
Jul 2023. Accepted paper in ESWEEK - CASES'23
Jul 2023. Accepted paper in ESWEEK - CODES+ISSS'23
Jun 2023. Award Best Paper Award in GLSVLSI'23
May 2023. Award Lockheed Martin Corporation Endowed Professorship in Computer Science/Computer Engineering
Feb 2023. Sina Asadi successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congradulations, Dr. Asadi!
Apr 2023. Paper Presentation at DATE'23 in Antwerp, Belgium.
Apr 2023. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ICCAD'23
Mar 2023. Four papers accepted in GLSVLSI'23
Feb 2023. Accepted paper in IEEE TCAD
Feb 2023. Accepted paper in IEEE JETCAS
Feb 2023. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for GLSVLSI'23
Jan 2023. Accepted paper in DATE'23
Jan 2023. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ISLPED'23
Jan 2023. Accepted paper in IEEE TCAD
Jan 2023. Accepted paper in ISQED'23
Nov 2022. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for DAC'23
Nov 2022. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ISCAS'23
Oct 2022. Sercan Aygun successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation. Congradulations, Dr. Aygun!
Oct 2022. U.S. Patent Granted for unary sorting circuits
Oct 2022. Accepted Paper in IGSC'22
Sep 2022. Award NVidia Academic Hardware Grant Program
Aug 2022. Accepted Paper in ICCD'22
Aug 2022. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for VLSID'23
Jul 2022. Accepted paper in ICCAD'22
June 2022. Accepted paper in Frontiers in Neuroscience
June 2022. Co-Editor IEEE JETCAS, Special Issue on Unconventional Computing Techniques
May 2022. Award Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Professorship in Computing & Informatics
May 2022. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ICCAD'22
Apr 2022. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ISLPED'22
Apr 2022. Accepted paper in DAC'22
Mar 2022. Accepted paper in IEEE TCAS II
Mar 2022. U.S. Patent Granted for LD Bit-stream Processing Using Sobol Sequences
Jan 2022. Accepted paper in ACM JETC
Jan 2022. Accepted paper in ISCAS'22
Jan 2022. Accepted paper in Frontiers in Neuroscience
Nov 2021. Invited to serve as a Track Chair for ISCAS'22
Nov 2021. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for VLSID'22
Oct 2021. Accepted paper in NANOARCH'21
Oct 2021. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent on accelerating DNN training
Jul 2021. Research Funding Award from Cisco ($112,651)
Jul 2021. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent on FSM-Based Low-Discrepancy Bit-Stream Generation
Jul 2021. Accepted paper in ICCAD'21
Jun 2021. Filed a U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application on Deterministic Bit-stream Generation
Jun 2021. Filed a U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application on Unary Fuzzy-Logic
Jun 2021. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ICCAD'21
May 2021. Filed a U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application on Pulse-based Convolution
May 2021. Accepted Paper in IEEE Transaction on Computers
May 2021. U.S. Patent Granted for down-sampling deterministic SC
Apr 2021. Invited to serve as a TPC Member for ISLPED'21
Apr 2021. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent on Exact SC Multiplication in Memory
Mar 2020. Research Funding Award from One TeleMed ($119,930)
Feb 2021. Accepted paper in DAC'21
Feb 2021. Filed two U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Applications
Dec 2020. Two Papers Accepted in IEEE Design & Test
Nov 2020. Two Papers Accepted in DATE'21
Oct 2020. ICCD'20 Session Chair
Oct 2020. Paper presentations at ISCAS'20
Oct 2020. ISCAS'20 Session Chair
Sep 2020. Invited Talk at ECE Department Colloquium, University of Minnesota.
Aug 2020. Research Funding Award from National Science Foundation ($5,000,000) News
Aug 2020. Invited Talk at ARM Research
Aug 2020. U.S. Patent Granted for the non-provisional patent on time-encoded SC
July 2020. ICCD'20 Technical Program Committee.
Jun 2020. Filed a U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application on low-discrepancy SC
Jun 2020. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on Deterministic bit-stream generation
Jun 2020. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on Unary Fuzzy Logic
May 2020. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on Pulse-based Convolution
Apr 2020. Accepted paper in DAC'20
Apr 2020. Research Funding Award from Louisiana BoRSF ($140,515, Ranked #1 out of 169 submitted proposals)
Mar 2020. Invited Talk at DATE'20 Workshop on Stochastic Computing for Neuromorphic Architectures (SCONA2020)
Mar 2020. Award! Received the NSF Travel Grant for Emerging Faculty (TGEF)
Feb 2020. Accepted paper in GLSVLSI'20
Feb 2020. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on accelerating deterministic SC using RNS
Feb 2020. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on an embedded SC accelerator for CNNs
Jan 2020. Four papers accepted in ISCAS'20
Dec 2019. Invited Talk at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, IRAN.
Nov 2019. Filed a U.S. Non-Provisional Patent Application on unary sorting circuits
Nov 2019. Accepted paper in DATE'20
Jun 2019. Accepted paper in IEEE TVLSI
Jun 2019. Paper presentations at ISCA'19 workshop on unary computing, Phoenix, AZ.
Jun 2019. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on low-discrepancy deterministic bit-streams
Jun 2019. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application on resolution splitting of bit-streams
Jun 2019. Award! Received the Best Poster Award at DAC'19 PhD Forum.
Jun 2019. Paper presentation at DAC'19, Las Vegas, NV.
May 2019. Four papers accepted in First ISCA Workshop on Unary Computing
May 2019. Three papers accepted in ASAP'19
May 2019. PhD Dissertation accepted for PhD Forum at DAC'19
Mar 2019. Paper presentation at DATE'19, Florence, Italy.
Mar 2019. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application for the Stochastic Hybrid NN idea
Mar 2019. Paper presentation at ISQED'19, Santa Clara, CA.
Feb 2019. Accepted paper in GLSVLSI'19
Feb 2019. Award! Selected to receive the 2018 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award at DATE'19 (Pic 1)
Feb 2019. Accepted paper in DAC'19
Jan 2019. Accepted paper in ACM JETC
Jan 2019. Invited Talk at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, IRAN.
Jan 2019. Invited Talk at the University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN.
Dec 2018. Accepted paper in ISQED'19
Dec 2018. PhD Dissertation accepted for PhD Forum at DATE'19
Nov 2018. PhD Dissertation accepted for SIGDA Student Research Forum at ASP-DAC'19
Nov 2018. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application for the Unary Sorting idea
Nov 2018. Paper presentation at ICCAD'18, San Diego, CA.
Oct 2018. Accepted paper in DATE'19
Sep 2018. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application for the StochMem idea
Aug 2018. Assistant Professor with CMIX, University of Louisiana.
Jul 2018. Passed Final Oral Exam (Officially Dr.)!
Jun 2018. Accepted paper in ICCAD'18
Jun 2018. Paper presentation at IWLS'18, San Francisco, CA.
Apr 2018. Interviewing for faculty positions
Apr 2018. Talk at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, LA.
Apr 2018. Two papers accepted in IWLS'18
Mar 2018. Filed a U.S. Provisional Patent Application for the down-sampling idea
Mar 2018. Accepted paper in IEEE TVLSI
Jan 2018. Accepted paper in IEEE CAL
Jan 2018. Filed a U.S. Patent Application for the time-encoding idea
Dec 2017. Accepted paper in IEEE TETC
Dec 2017. Accepted paper in ISQED'18
Nov 2017. Award! Best Paper Award in ICCD'17.
Nov 2017. Paper presentation at ICCD'17, Boston.
Oct 2017. Award! Student travel award to attend ICCD'17
Sep 2017. Our ICCD'17 paper selected as top-ranked paper for publishing in IEEE TETC!
Sep 2017. Two papers accepted in ICCD!
Sep 2017. Filed a U.S. Patent Application for the polysync idea
Aug 2017. Accepted paper in IEEE Micro!
Aug 2017. Our Polysync. paper selected as the IEEE TC Feature Paper of the Month, Oct. 2017!
May 2017. Paper presentation at ISCAS'17, Baltimore, MD!
Apr 2017. Award! Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2017-18 academic year.
Apr 2017. Accepted paper in IEEE Transactions on Computers!
Feb 2017. Accepted paper in ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems!
Feb 2017. Accepted paper in ISCAS'17!
Feb 2017. Accepted paper in DAC'17!
Jan 2017. Paper presentation at ASP-DAC'17, Chiba/Tokyo, Japan!
Dec 2016. Accepted paper in IEEE Transaction on VLSI systems!
Sep 2016. Accepted paper in ASP-DAC'17!
Sep 2016. Passed Preliminary Oral Exam (PhD candidate)!
Feb 2016. Accepted paper in DAC'16!
Jan 2016. Paper presentation at ASP-DAC'16, Macau, China!
Dec 2015. Paper presentation at ICPADS'15, Melbourne, Australia!
Nov 2015. Accepted paper in FPGA'16!
Sep 2015. Accepted paper in ICPADS'15!
Sep 2015. Accepted paper in ASP-DAC'16!
May 2015. Accepted paper in ASAP'15!