Nika Mansouri Ghiasi
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi
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PhD student at SAFARI Research Group, ETH Zurich
n.mansorighiasi [AT] gmail.com
I am a PhD student in the SAFARI Research Group at ETH Zurich, advised by Professor Onur Mutlu. I spent one semester of my PhD as a visiting researcher at Robust Systems Group at Stanford University, working with Professor Subhasish Mitra.
I am a PhD student in the SAFARI Research Group at ETH Zurich, advised by Professor Onur Mutlu. I spent one semester of my PhD as a visiting researcher at Robust Systems Group at Stanford University, working with Professor Subhasish Mitra.
My current research interests are in computer architecture and computational biology, focusing on 1) storage systems, large-scale bioinformatics applications, and their interactions, and 2) emerging technologies such as ultra-dense 3D integrated systems.
I am interested in designing high-performance, energy-efficient, and low-cost systems that facilitate the widespread adoption of data-intensive applications needed for advancing healthcare and life sciences.
My current research interests are in computer architecture and computational biology, focusing on 1) storage systems, large-scale bioinformatics applications, and their interactions, and 2) emerging technologies such as ultra-dense 3D integrated systems.
I am interested in designing high-performance, energy-efficient, and low-cost systems that facilitate the widespread adoption of data-intensive applications needed for advancing healthcare and life sciences.
Before my PhD, I obtained my master's degree from ETH Zurich, also advised by Professor Onur Mutlu, and my bachelor's degree from the University of Tehran, advised by Professor Ali Afzali Kusha and Doctor Mehdi Kamal.
News
News
April, 2026: Selected to participate in the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2026.
March, 2026: Defended my PhD thesis, titled “Storage-Centric System Designs for Enabling Fast, Efficient, and Low-Cost Genomic and Metagenomic Analyses.” Please visit this link for more info.
March, 2026: GRAINS is accepted to ISCA 2026.
March, 2026: RevaMp3D is accepted to ACM TACO 2026.
January, 2026: We organized the second Arch4Health workshop in conjunction with HPCA 2026, in Sydney, Australia. More info: https://events.safari.ethz.ch/hpca26-arch4health/
November, 2025: SAGe is accepted to HPCA 2026.
November, 2025: Conduit is accepted to HPCA 2026.
November, 2025: GenPairX is accepted to HPCA 2026.
October, 2025: We organized the first Arch4Health workshop in conjunction with MICRO 2025, in Seoul, South Korea. More info: https://events.safari.ethz.ch/micro25-arch4health/
April, 2025: MARS is accepted to ICS 2025.
March, 2025: REIS is accepted to ISCA 2025.
March, 2025: IMPACT is accepted to DSN 2025.
January, 2025: "Analysis of metagenomic data" is published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2025.
November, 2024: Presented my research on "Specializing the Storage System for Genomics and Metagenomics" in CWIDCA and PIM Tutorial, in conjunction with MICRO 2024.
November, 2024: Presented my research on "Storage-Centric Computing for Genomics and Metagenomics" at AMD, Austin.
November, 2024: Ariadne accepted to HPCA 2025.
October, 2024: Presented my research on "Storage-Centric Computing for Genomics and Metagenomics" at UCLA (host: Prof. Tony Nowatzki) and UCI (host: Prof. Alex Veidenbaum).
October, 2024: ACM SRC Grand Finalist for our research on "Understanding and Modeling the Performance Landscape of Ultra-Dense 3D Memory Systems" in PACT SRC 2024. In our collaboration with Prof. Subhasish Mitra (Stanford), Prof. Tathagata Srimani (CMU), and their research groups.
June, 2024: Presented MegIS at ISCA 2024.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
For full publications, please check my Publication page or my Google Scholar.
GRAINS: Enabling High-Performance and Low-Cost Graph-Based Genome Analysis via Storage-Aware Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Harun Mustafa, Talu Güloglu, Rakesh Nadig, Konstantina Koliogeorgi, Susana Rebolledo Ruiz, Marc Rautmann, Furkan Eris, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Jisung Park, Onur Mutlu
to appear in ISCA, 2026
RevaMp3D: Architecting the Processor Core and Caches for Systems with Monolithically-Integrated Logic and Memory
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Geraldo F. Oliveira, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Juan Gómez Luna, João Ferreira, Jeremie S. Kim, Christina Giannoula, Nandita Vijaykumar, Jisung Park, Onur Mutlu
to appear in ACM TACO, 2026
SAGe: A Lightweight Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Mitigating the Data Preparation Bottleneck in Large-Scale Genome Analysis
Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Talu Güloglu, Harun Mustafa, Can Firtina, Konstantina Koliogeorgi, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Haiyu Mao, Rakesh Nadig, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Jisung Park, Onur Mutlu
to apprear in HPCA, 2026
Conduit: Programmer-Transparent Near-Data Processing Using Multiple Compute-Capable Resources in SSDs
Rakesh Nadig, Vamanan Arulchelvan, Mayank Kabra, Harshita Gupta, Rahul Bera, Nika Ghiasi, Nanditha Rao, Qingcai Jiang, Andreas Kakolyris, Yu Lenny Liang, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Onur Mutlu
to apprear in HPCA, 2026
REIS: A High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Retrieval System with In-Storage Processing
Kangqi Chen, Rakesh Nadig, Andreas Kosmas Kakolyris, Manos Frouzakis, Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Yu Liang, Haiyu Mao, Jisung Park, Mohammad Sadrosadati, and Onur Mutlu
in ISCA, 2025
Analysis of metagenomic data
S. Liu, J. S. Rodriguez, V. Munteanu, C. Ronkowski, N. Kumar Sharma, M. Alser, F. Andreace, R. Blekhman, D. Blaszczyk, R. Chikhi, K. A. Crandall, K. Della Libera, D. Francis, A. Frolova, A. Shahar Gancz, N. E. Huntley, P. Jaiswal, T. Kosciolek, P. P. Labaj, W. Labaj, T. Luan, Ch. Mason, A. M. Moustafa, H. Subrahmaniam Muralidharan, O. Mutlu, N. Mansouri Ghiasi, A. Rahnavard, F. Sun, S. Tian, B. T. Tierney, E. Van Syoc, R. Vicedomini, J. P. Zackular, A. Zelikovsky, K. Zieli´nska, E. Ganda, E. R. Davenport, M. Pop, D. Koslicki, S. Mangul
in Nature Reviews Methods Primers, 2025
MegIS: High-Performance, Energy-Efficient, and Low-Cost Metagenomic Analysis with In-Storage Processing
N. Mansouri Ghiasi, M. Sadrosadati, H. Mustafa, A. Gollwitzer, C. Firtina, J. Eudine, H. Ma, J. Lindegger, M. Banu Cavlak, M. Alser, J. Park, O. Mutlu
In ISCA, 2024
Understanding and Modeling the Performance Landscape of Ultra-Dense 3D Memory Systems
N. Mansouri Ghiasi, O. Mutlu
In PACT ACM Student Research Competition, 2024
RawHash: Enabling Fast and Accurate Real-Time Analysis of Raw Nanopore Signals for Large Genomes,
C. Firtina, N. Mansouri Ghiasi, J. Lindegger, G. Singh, M. Banu Cavlak, H. Mao, and O. Mutlu
in ISMB, 2023
Venice: Improving Solid-State Drive Parallelism at Low Cost via Conflict-Free Accesses
R. Nadig, M. Sadrosadati, H. Mao, N. Mansouri Ghiasi, A. Tavakkol, J. Park, H. Sarbazi-Azad, J. Luna, O. Mutlu
in ISCA, 2023
GenStore: A High-Performance In-Storage Processing System for Genome Sequence Analysis
N. Mansouri Ghiasi, J. Park, H. Mustafa, J. Kim, A. Olgun, A. Gollwitzer, D. Senol Cali, C. Firtina, H. Mao, N. Almadhoun Alserr, R. Ausavarungnirun, N. Vijaykumar, M. Alser, and O. Mutlu
in ASPLOS, 2022
ALP: Alleviating CPU-Memory Data Movement Overheads in Memory-Centric Systems
N. Mansouri Ghiasi, N. Vijaykumar, G. F Oliveira, L. Orosa, I. Fernandez, M. Sadrosadati, K. Kanellopoulos, N. Hajinazar, J. Gómez Luna, O. Mutlu
in IEEE TETC, 2022
RevaMp3D: Architecting the Processor Core and Cache Hierarchy for Systems with Monolithically-Integrated Logic and Memory
N. Mansouri Ghiasi, M. Sadrosadati, G. F Oliveira, K. Kanellopoulos, R. Ausavarungnirun, J. Gómez Luna, A. Manglik, J. Ferreira, J. S Kim, C. Giannoula, N. Vijaykumar, J. Park, O. Mutlu
in arXiv, 2022
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
Selected to participate in the 13th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2026
To be inducted into the ISCA Hall of Fame in 2026
Recipient of the ETH Zurich Doc.Mobility Fellowship
Grand Finalist of ACM Student Research Competition at PACT 2024
Awarded University of Tehran Fellowship for B.Sc. [2011 - 2016]
Ranked top 0.1% among more than 280,000 students in the National Universities Entrance Exam
Semifinalist at the Mathematics, Chemistry, and Literature National Olympiads [2010]
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