Education & Experience

Education

  1. 2020 – 2026

    Doctor of Philosophy

    ETH Zurich · Advisor: Prof. Onur Mutlu

    Thesis: Storage-Centric System Designs for Enabling Fast, Efficient, and Low-Cost Genomic and Metagenomic Analyses

  2. 2019

    Master of Science

    ETH Zurich, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (D-ITET) · Advisor: Prof. Onur Mutlu

    Thesis: Understanding the Opportunities and Bottlenecks in Near-Data Processing Engines

  3. 2016

    Bachelor of Science

    University of Tehran, Department of Electrical Engineering · Advisors: Prof. Ali Afzali-Kusha, Dr. Mehdi Kamal

    Thesis: Finding Critical Paths in Digital Circuits in the Presence of Process Variations

Research Experience

  1. ETH Zurich, ITET Department, SAFARI Research Group advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu

    Senior Researcher 2026 – present

    PhD Research Assistant 2020 – 2026

    • High-performance and energy-efficient computing systems for healthcare and life sciences, specifically for genomics and metagenomics
    • Storage- and memory-centric computing
    • Emerging technologies, in particular dense 3D integration. Architecting the processor core and cache hierarchy for systems with dense 3D integration
    • Hardware-software co-design for critical application domains, such as health, AI/ML, and autonomous cars
    • Storage and memory system designs to improve performance, energy-efficiency, and reliability
    • Bioinformatics algorithms and software, real-time genome analysis, population-scale genomics

  2. Stanford University, EE and CS Departments, Robust Systems Group advised by Prof. Subhasish Mitra

    Graduate Visiting Researcher Sep 2023 – Feb 2024

    • Understanding and modeling the performance landscape of ultra-dense 3D memory systems
    • Exploring the potential of this emerging technology for improving the performance of data-intensive applications

  3. ETH Zurich, ITET Department, SAFARI Research Group advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu

    Master's Research Assistant 2017 – 2019

    • Memory-centric computing
    • Emerging technologies, in particular dense 3D integration. Architecting the processor core and cache hierarchy for systems with dense 3D integration
    • Storage and memory system designs to improve performance, energy-efficiency, and reliability

  4. University of Tehran, ECE Department, Low-Power High-Performance Nano-systems Laboratory advised by Prof. Ali Afzali-Kusha, Prof. Mehdi Kamal

    Undergraduate Research Assistant Jul 2015 – Aug 2016

    • Finding critical paths in digital circuits in the presence of process variation

  5. Texas Tech University, CS Department, Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Laboratory advised by Prof. Yong Chen

    Undergraduate Research Intern Aug 2015 – Oct 2015

    • RISC-V extension for data-intensive applications, memory request coalescing for hybrid memory cube devices

  6. Polytechnic University of Turin, Test Group advised by Prof. Paolo Prinetto

    Undergraduate Research Intern Jul 2014 – Sep 2014

    • Design and synthesis of a hardware camera lens distortion core with High Level Synthesis

  7. University of Tehran, ECE Department, CAD Research Group advised by Prof. Zain Navabi

    Undergraduate Research Assistant Jul 2013 – Sep 2013

    • Design and implementation of an educational extension board for FPGAs