I'm a Computer Engineering PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with Heiner Litz. I work on improving microprocessor IPC for data center workloads. A copy of my resume is available here.
Khajeh Nassir-Al-Deen Toosi (K. N. Toosi) University of Technology
B.Sc., Computer Engineering - Hardware
2009 - 2013 Tehran, Iran
Publication
Cache Energy Management through Dynamic Reconfiguration Approach in OptoElectrical No S. Jamilan, M. Abdollahi, and S. Mohammadi The 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing(PDP), 2017
Research Experience
Research Assistant at University of California, Santa Cruz
Working with Prof. Heiner Litz
September 2018 - present
Research Assistant at University of Tehran
School of ECE, Dependable System Design Lab
Working with Prof. Siamak Mohammadi
2014 - 2017
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant at University of California, Santa Cruz
Computer Architecture (CSE 120)
Winter 2019, Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant at University of Tehran
Multi-core Embedded Systems
Sprint 2016, Spring 2017
Coursework and acadmica projects
Advanced Parallel Processing (CSE 226 at UCSC)
Machine Learning (CSE 242 at UCSC)
Advanced Topics in Computer Engineering (CSE 293 at UCSC)
Advanced Computer Architecture
Project: Implementing a Low Power Branch Predictor for MIPS Processor
Interconnection Networks
Project: Investigating the Possibility of Free-Contention Routing in an Electrical Network-on-Chip
by BookSim Simulator
Functional Verification of HDL Models
Project: Fully Functional Verification of a MIPS Processor, writing Stimuli Generator and Checker
with System Verilog Verification Language
Fault Tolerant System Design
Project: RTL Fault Simulation and Injection on Sayeh Processor
On-Chip Multi-Processors
Project: Analysis of Traces Corresponding to Different Cache Memory Hierarchies During Running
Multiple Workloads on a Multicore Processor
Parallel Processing
Project: Using OpenMP and Pthreads Libraries for Improving Speedup at Several Image Processing
Algorithms
Asynchronous Circuit Design
Project: Investigating Performance and Power Consumption of Different Kinds of Asynchronous
Pipelines (HSPICE, balsa)
Very-Large-Scale Integration Design (VLSI)
Project: Synthesis and Time/Area Optimization of a Simplified MIPS Processor using Synopsys
Design Compiler Tool
Honors
Top 0.4% of 30,000+ participants in Iranian National Graduate Exam, 2014
Top 0.5% of 400,000+ participants in Iranian National University Exam, 2009
Membership of The National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET), 2005-2009