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`Houman Homayoun
`Email: hhomayou@gmu.edu
`Web: http://ece.gmu.edu/~hhomayou/
`https://nsfchest.org/
`Lab: ASEEC: Accelerated, Secure, and Energy-Efficient Computing Lab
`Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
`Department of Computer Science (Courtesy Appointment)
`Department of Information Sciences and Technology (Courtesy Appointment)
`George Mason University
`Office: 3223, Engineering Building, Phone: (703) 993-5430
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`EDUCATION
`§ Postdoc
`Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego
`Mentor: Prof. Dean Tullsen
`§ PhD
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`Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.
`Ø Thesis: Beyond Memory Cells for Leakage and Temperature Control in SRAM-
`based Units, the Peripheral Circuits Story.
`Advisors: Prof. Alex Veidenbaum, Prof. Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Prof. Fadi Kurdahi
`§ Master of Applied Science
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`Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Victoria, Canada.
`Ø Thesis: Using Lazy Instruction Prediction to Reduce Processor Wakeup Power
`Dissipation.
`§ Bachelor of Science
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`Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology.
`EMPLOYMENT
` Associate Professor, George Mason University, Department of Electrical and
`Computer Engineering, Courtesy Appointment with the Department of Computer
`Science, Courtesy Appointment with the Department of Information Sciences and
`Technology
`§ Advisory Committee, Research and Technology Commercialization (R&TC),
`Cybersecurity working group, Commonwealth of Virginia
`§ Assistant Professor, George Mason University, Department of Electrical and Computer
`Engineering, Courtesy Appointment with the Department of Computer Science,
`Courtesy Appointment with the Department of Information Sciences and Technology.
`§ Board of Advisory Member, BroadPak Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA.
`§ NSF/CCC-CRA Computing Innovation Fellow, University of California San Diego,
`Department of Computer Science and Engineering (Mentor: Dean M. Tullsen)
`§ Graduate Research Assistant, University of California, Irvine, Department of
`Computer Science (Advisors: Alex Veidenbaum, Jean-Luc Gaudiot and Fadi Kurdahi)
`§ Design Architect, Novelics Inc., Aliso Viejo, California, USA.
`§ Researcher Assistant, McMaster University, Canada, Department of Electrical and
`Computer Engineering.
`§ Graduate Research Assistant, University of Victoria, Canada, Department of Electrical
`and Computer Engineering.
`§ Research Assistant, Sharif University Technology, Tehran, Electronic Research Center.
`GRANTS
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`Sponsored Research: Total $7,295,000, GMU Portion: $5,339,000, My Share: $4,395,000.
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`§ “Planning IUCRC George Mason University: Center for Hardware and Embedded System
`Security and Trust (CHEST)” https://nsfchest.org/
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`NSF IUCRC, (PI), $15,000 for 2017-2018 planning and $750,000 (expected) over 5 years
`for center expenses during phase I.
`Role: PI and Center Director on GMU site, A collaborative effort composed of George Mason
`University, Northeastern University, University of Connecticut, University of Texas at Dallas,
`University of Virginia, and Wright State University to establish the first NSF/AFRL center on
`HW and Embedded Systems Security and Trust.
`§ “Obfuscated Logics to Enhance Security and Prevent Reverse Engineering”
`DARPA MTO Office, (PI), $1,800,000. ($600K fab cost to GF), PM: Kerry Bernstein
`Role: Team lead on design and fabricating obfuscated logics in 14nm with GlobalFoundries.
`§ “Mobilizing the Micro-Ops: Securing Processor Architectures via Context Sensitive Decoding”
`DARPA MTO Office, SSITH program (PI on GMU site), Total: $1,200,000. GMU share
`($400,000), PM: Linton Salmon
`Role: Leading the team to detect HW vulnerabilities in out-of-order processors
`§ “Evolution of Computer Vision for Low Power Devices, Breaking its Power Wall and
`Computational Complexity”
`NSF CSR-CNS, (Co-PI), $500,000.
`Role: Developing an approximate Iterative Convolutional Neural Network coprocessor that
`supports approximation in memory and logic.
`§ “3D-Split of Obfuscation and Authentication of logic”
`DARPA MTO Office, (Co-PI), $495,000. PM: Ken Plaks
`Role: Developing 3D-SOUL secure-compiler for cell, route and FSM obfuscation.
`§ “Persistence and Extraction of Digital Artifacts from Embedded Systems”
`NIST, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence,
`(Co-PI), $75,000.
`Role: Establishing the persistence of digital artifacts on embedded systems through JTAG
`analysis.
`§ “Hybrid Spin Transfer Torque-CMOS Technology to Prevent Design Reverse Engineering”
`DARPA MTO Office, (PI), $349,000. PM: Kerry Bernstein
`Role: Directing the project to design and deploy new circuit methods to build reconfigurable
`logics to enhance performance and power efficiency.
`§ “Heterogeneous Ultra Low Power Accelerator for Wearable Biomedical Computing”
`NSF CSR-CNS, (PI), Total $500,000, GMU portion $288,000.
`Role: Directing the project to design and deploy new circuit methods to build reconfigurable
`logics to enhance performance and power efficiency.
`§ “A Novel Biomechatronic Interface Based on Wearable Dynamic Imaging Sensors”
`NSF CPS – CNS, (Co-PI) $995,000.
`Role: Designing a heterogeneous architecture for computing intensive biomedical application,
`Compare with state-of-the-art heterogeneous platforms such as TI OMAP and Nvidia Tegra.
`§ “Enhancing the Security on Embedded Automotive Systems”
`General Motors, (Co-PI) $261,000.
`Role: Hacking the CAN Bus Network of GM Cars.
`§ “Inter-core Selective Resource Pooling in a 3D Chip Multiprocessor”
`NSF CI Fellow Award, NSF 1019343/CRA Sub Award CIF-B-68, (PI), $280,000.
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`Equipment Support from Industry
`§ Nvidia Corporation: 2 Tesla K40 GPU for CNN training, $9,560
`§ Xilinx Corporation, 12 Xilinx ZYNQ board for HW accelerated computer vision, $5,940
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`Intel Corporation, 20 Intel Galileo and Intel Edison board for wearable computing, $2,170
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`RESEARCH INTEREST
`§ Computer System Cybersecurity (Current)
`o Online malware detection
`o Adversarial machine learning
`o Side-channel processor architecture defense and attack
`o Detecting and containing malware epidemic in IoT network
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`o Reverse engineering
`§ Big Data Computing (Current)
`o Algorithms for energy-efficient acceleration of Big Data
`o Deep machine learning and data mining acceleration on heterogeneous platforms
`o Applied machine learning for cloud workload management, scheduling and tuning
`o Emerging big data application benchmarking and characterization on heterogeneous architectures
`o Mapping data and model parallel big data frameworks to heterogeneous accelerator architectures
`§ Heterogeneous Architecture Design and Management (Current)
`o Design space exploration of FPGA+CPU architecture for emerging big data frameworks
`o Scheduling and resource management in heterogeneous multicore CPU+FPGA architectures
`o Accelerator design for wearable biomedical applications
`o 3D dynamic heterogeneous architecture design
`§ Emerging Memory Technologies (Current)
`o Emerging DRAM architectures in 3D (HMC, Wide I/O) for big data applications
`o Non-volatile logic and memory design
`§ Power and Thermal Management
`o Power/thermal and reliability issue in 3D architecture
`o Power management in emerging non-volatile memories
`o Power and energy optimization in VLSI circuits
`o Thermal management in emerging technologies such as 3D
`o Reliability-aware memory design
`o Dynamic power/thermal management in multi/many-core systems
`o Energy efficiency and power management in enterprise datacenter
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`PUBLICATIONS
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`Publication Summary:
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`Computer Security
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`Applied Machine Learning
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`Big Data Computing
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`Resource Management
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`Number of
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`CHES, DAC, TODAES, ASPDAC, IOLTS, ISVLSI,
`ISQED, ICCD, DATE, CASES, ICCAD
`ASPDAC, CASES, DAC, DATE, ICCD, ISQED, IISWC,
`FCCM, ICCAD, CODES-ISSS, CCGRID, ASAP,
`GLSVLSI, ASPDAC, ICCD, TVLSI
`CCGRID, SoCC, TSMSCS, TOMPECS, TECS, JPDC,
`JPDC, TMSCS, ICCD, DAC, IISWC, ISPASS, FCCM, Big
`Data, CF, SAMOS, IGSC, DATE
`ISCA, HPCA, TODAES, TVLSI, JETC, TVLSI, TVLSI,
`MR, TECS, CAL, JSC, TVLSI, LCTES, SAMOS, IGSC,
`GLSVLSI, ICCD, DATE, DAC
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`DAC
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`ASPDAC
`ICCD
`TODAES
`TOMPECS
`CHES
`ICCAD
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`HPCA
`ISPASS
`TVLSI
`GLSVLSI
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`CODES-ISSS
`IISWC
`ISQED
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`Journal Papers
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`(24) “Programmable Gates Using Hybrid CMOS-STT Design to Prevent IC Reverse Engineering”
`Theodore Winograd, Hassan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi, Kris Gaj, Houman Homayoun
`ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Special issue on Internet of Things
`System Performance, Reliability, and Security, 2018 (Accepted)
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`(23) “Optimal Allocation of Computation and Communication in an IoT Network”
`Abhimanyu Chopra, Hakan Aydin, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
`ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Special issue on Internet of Things
`System Performance, Reliability, and Security, 2018 (Accepted)
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`(22) “Hardware Accelerated Mappers for Hadoop MapReduce Streaming”
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Maria Malik, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems, 2018 (Accepted)
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`(21) “System and Architecture Level Characterization of Big Data Applications on Big and Little Core
`Server Architectures”
`Maria Malik, Katayoun Neshatpour, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
`ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, 2018
`(Accepted)
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`(20) “Low Overhead CS-based Heterogeneous Framework for Big Data Acceleration”
`Amey Kulkarni, Colin Shea, Tahmid Abtahi, Houman Homayoun and Tinoosh Mohsenin
`ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing Systems, 2018 (Accepted)
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`(19) “Specialized Hardware-Supported Malware Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques”
`Hossein Sayadi, Nisarg Patel and Houman Homayoun
`IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019 (under review).
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`(18) “Big vs Little Core for Energy-Efficient Hadoop Computing”
`Maria Malik; Katayoun Neshatpour; Setareh Rafatirad; Rajiv V Joshi; Houman Homayoun
`Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Special Issue on Systems for Learning,
`Inferencing, and Discovering (SLID), 2017 (Accepted)
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`(17) “Smart Grid on Chip: Work Load-Balanced On-Chip Power Delivery”
`Divya Patahk, Houman Homayoun, Ioannis Savidis
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, DOI: 10.1109/
`TVLSI.2017.2699644, 2017
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`(16) “Energy-Efficient Acceleration of MapReduce Applications Using FPGAs”
`Katayoun Neshatpour; Maria Malik; Houman Homayoun
`Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Special Issue on Systems for Learning,
`Inferencing, and Discovering (SLID) (Accepted)
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`(15) “An Energy Efficient Programmable Manycore Accelerator for Personalized Biomedical
`Applications”
`Adam Page, Adwaya Kulkarni, Nasrin Attaran, Ali Jafari, Maria Malik, Houman Homayoun, and
`Tinoosh Mohsenin
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (Accepted)
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`(14) “Heterogeneous HMC+DDRx Memory Management for Performance-Temperature Trade-offs”
`Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Mohammad Khavari Tavana, Tinoosh Mohsein, Houman
`Homayoun
`ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing, 2017. (Accepted)
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`(13) “Sparse Regression Driven Mixture Important Sampling for Memory Design”
`Maria Malik, Rajiv Joshi, Rouwaida Kanj, Shupeng Sun, Houman Homayoun, Tong Li
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (Accepted)
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`(12) “Hadoop Workloads Characterization for Performance and Energy Efficiency Optimizations on
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`Microservers”
`Maria Malik, Katayoun Neshatpour, Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (Accepted)
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` (11) “ElasticCore: A Dynamic Heterogeneous Platform with Joint Core and Voltage/Frequency Scaling”
`Mohammad Khavari Tavana, Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Divya Pathak, Ioannis Savidis,
`Houman Homayoun
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (Accepted)
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` (10) “Enhancing Power, Performance, and Energy-efficiency in Chip Multiprocessors Exploiting Inverse
`Thermal Dependence”
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Wane Burleson, Amin Khajeh, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (Accepted)
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` (9) “Reliability analysis of spin transfer torque based look up tables under process variations and NBTI
`aging”.
`Ragh Kuttappa, Houman Homayoun, Hassan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi.
`Elsevier Microelectronics Reliability Journal, Volume 62, p 156-166, 2016.
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` (8) “Using a Flexible Fault-Tolerant Cache to Improve Reliability for Ultra Low Voltage Operation”.
`Abbas Banaiyanmofrad, Houman Homayoun, Nikil Dutt.
`ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing. 14, no. 2 (2015): 32.
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` (7) “Resistive Computation: A Critique”.
`Hamid Mahmoodi, Sridevi Srinivasan Lakshmipuram, Manish Arora, Yashar Asgarieh, Houman
`Homayoun, Bill Lin and Dean M.Tullsen.
`IEEE Computer Architecture Letters, DOI 10.1109/L-CA.2013.23, 2014.
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`(6) “Multi-Copy Cache: A Highly Energy Efficient Cache Architecture”.
`Arup Chakraborty, Houman Homayoun, Amin Khejah, Nikil Dutt, Ahmed Eltawil, Fadi Kurdahi.
`ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2014.
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`(5) “Variation Trained Drowsy Cache (VTD-Cache): A History Trained Variation Aware Drowsy
` Cache for Fine Grain Voltage Scaling”.
`Avesta Makhzan, Kiarash Amiri, Houman Homayoun, Ahmed Eltawil, Fadi J. Kurdahi.
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2010 (TVLSI). VOL. 20, Issue
`4, pp: 630-642. April 2012.
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`(4) “MZZ-HVS: Multi Modes Zig-Zag Horizontal and Vertical Sleep Transistor Sharing to Reduce
` Leakage Power in On-Chip SRAM Peripheral Circuits”.
`Houman Homayoun, Avesta Sasan, Alex Veidenbaum, Hsin-Cheng Yao, Shahin Golshan, Payam
`Heydari.
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, (TVLSI), VOL. 19, NO. 12,
`DECEMBER 2011.
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`(3) “On Leakage Power Optimization in Clock Tree Networks for ASICs and General-Purpose
` Processors”
` Houman Homayoun, Shahin Golshan, Eli Bozorgzadeh, Alex Veidenbaum, Fadi Kurdahi.
`Elsevier Journal of Sustainable Computing, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2011, Pages 75-87 (Invited
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`(2) “Inquisitive Defect Cache: A Means of Combating Manufacturing Induced Process Variation”.
`Avesta Makhzan, Houman Homayoun, Ahmed Eltawil, Fadi J. Kurdahi.
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2010 (TVLSI), VOL. 19, NO. 9,
`SEPTEMBER 2011.
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`(1) “Reducing Power in All Major CAM and SRAM Based Processor Units via Centralized, Dynamic
`Resource Size Management”.
`Houman Homayoun, Avesta Sasan, Alex Veidenbaum, Jean-Luc Gaudiot.
`IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 2010 (TVLSI), VOL. 19, NO. 11,
`NOVEMBER 2011.
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`Conference Papers
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`(96) “SMT Attack: Next Generation Attack on Obfuscated Circuits with Capabilities and Performance
`Beyond The SAT Attacks”
`Kimia Zamiri Azar, Hadi Mardani Kamali, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun
`IACR Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2019)
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`(95) “2SMaRT: A Two-Stage Machine Learning-Based Approach for Run-Time Specialized Hardware-
`Assisted Malware Detection”
`Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Tinoosh Mohsenin,
`Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun
`Design, Automation & Test in Europe, (DATE 2019)
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`(94) “Lightweight Node-level Malware Detection and Network-level Malware Confinement in IoT
`Networks”
`Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Hossein Sayadi, Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Cameron Nowzari,
`Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun
`Design, Automation & Test in Europe, (DATE 2019)
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`(93) “XPPE: a cross platform performance estimation of OpenCV kernels on FPGA devices”
`Hosein Makrani, Sara Bondi, Houman Homayoun (Invited Talk)
`24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, (ASPDAC 2019)
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` (92) “IR-ATA: IR Annotated Timing Analysis, A Flow for Closing the Loop Between PDN design, IR
`Analysis & Timing Closure”
`Ashkan Vakil, Houman Homayoun, Avesta Sasan
`24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, (ASPDAC 2019)
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`(91) “Exploiting Energy-Accuracy Trade-off through Contextual Awareness in Multi-Stage Convolutional
`Neural Networks”
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan (Invited Talk)
`20th International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design, (ISQED 2019)
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`(90) “Ensemble Learning for Hardware-Based Malware Detection: A Comprehensive Analysis and
`Classification”
`Hossein Sayadi, Nisarg Patel, Sai Manoj P. D., Avesta Sasan, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman
`Homayoun
`ACM/IEEE 55th Design Automation Conference. (DAC 2018).
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`(89) “ICNN: An Iterative Implementation of Convolutional Neural Networks to Enable Energy and
`Computational Complexity Aware Dynamic Approximation”
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Farnaz Behnia, Houman Homayoun, Avesta Sasan
`Design, Automation & Test in Europe, (DATE 2018).
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`(88) “Efficient Utilization of Adversarial Training towards Robust Machine Learners and its Analysis”.
`Sai Manoj P D, Sairaj Amberkar, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun.
`IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design, Special Session (ICCAD 2018).
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`(87) “Hardware-Assisted Security: Understanding Security Vulnerabilities, Emerging Attacks and
`Existing Defenses”
`Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Ferdinand Brasser, Lucas Davi, Abhijitt Dhavlle, Tommaso
`Frassetto, Setareh Rafatirad, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Hossein Sayadi, and Shaza Zeitouni, Houman
`Homayoun
`In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for
`Embedded Systems, CASES 2018.
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`(86) “Power Conversion Efficiency-Aware Mapping of Multithreaded Applications on Heterogeneous
`Architectures: A Comprehensive Parameter Tuning”
`Hossein Sayadi, Divya Pathak, Ioannis Savidis, Houman Homayoun
`23rd Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, (ASPDAC 2018)
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`(85) “Design Space Exploration for Acceleration of Machine Learning Applications”.
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Houman Homayoun.
`The 26th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines,
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`(84) “Main-Memory Requirements of Big Data Applications on Commodity Server Platform”.
`Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun.
`18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, (CCGRID 2018).
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`(83) “Energy-aware and Machine Learning-based Resource Provisioning of In-Memory Analytics on
`Cloud”.
`Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Devang Motwani, Han Wang, Setareh Rafatirad,
`Houman Homayoun.
`ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2018 (SoCC 2018)
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`(82) “Comprehensive Assessment of Run-Time Hardware-Supported Malware Detection Using General
`and Ensemble Learning”.
`Hossein Sayadi, Sai Manoj, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun.
`ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF 2018).
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`(81) “Understanding and Benchmarking
`the Capabilitiesand Limitations of SAT Solvers
`DefeatingObfuscation Schemes”
`Shervin Roshanisefat, Harshith Thirumala, Houman Homayoun, Kris Gaj, Avesta Sasan
`24th IEEE International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design. (IOLTS 2018)
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`(80) “Architectural Considerations for FPGA Acceleration of Machine Learning Applications in
`MapReduce”.
`Katayoun Neshatpour,Hosein Mohammadi Mokrani, Avesta Sasan, Hassan Ghasemzadeh, Setareh
`Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun.
`International Symposium on Systems, Systems, Architectures, Modeling and Simulation. SAMOS
`XVIII 2018, Samos, Greece.
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`(79) “A comprehensive Memory Analysis of Data Intensive Workloads on Server Class Architecture”.
`Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarra, Setareh Rafatirad,
`Houman Homayoun.
`The International Symposium on Memory Systems (MEMSYS 2018).
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`(78) “Compressive Sensing on Storage Data: An Effective Solution to Alleviate I/O Bottleneck in Data
`Intensive Workloads”.
`Hosein Mohammadi Makrani, Hossein Sayadi, Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao, Setareh Rafatirad,
`Houman Homayoun.
`The 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and
`Processors (ASAP 2018)
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`(77) “LUT-Lock: A Novel LUT-based Logic Obfuscation for FPGA-Bitstream and ASIC-Hardware
`Protection”.
`Hadi Mardani Kamali, Kimia Zamiri Azar, Kris Gaj, Houman Homayoun, Avesta Sasan.
`IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, (ISVLSI 2018).
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`2017
`(76) “MeNa: A Memory Navigator for Modern Hardware in Scale-out Environment”
`Hosein Makrani, Houman Homayoun
`2017 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, (IISWC 2017).
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`(75) “Co-Locating and Concurrent Fine-Tuning MapReduce Applications on Microservers for Energy
`Efficiency”
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`ASP-DAC
`Acceptance
`rate 31%
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`FCCM
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`CCGRID
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`SoCC
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`IOLTS
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`MEMSYS
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`ASAP
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`IISWC
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`2017 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, (IISWC 2017).
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`(74) “Memory Requirements of Hadoop, Spark, and MPI Based Big Data Applications on Commodity
`Server Class Architecture”
`Hosein Makrani, Houman Homayoun
`2017 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, (IISWC 2017).
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`(73) “Analyzing Hardware Based Malware Detectors”
`Nisarg Patel and Houman Homayoun
`ACM/IEEE 54th Design Automation Conference. (DAC 2017).
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`(72) “Big vs Little Core for Energy-Efficient Hadoop Computing”
`Maria Malik, Katayoun Neshatpour, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Avesta Sasan and Houman Homayoun
`Design, Automation & Test in Europe, (DATE 2017).
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`(71) “LESS: Big Data Sketching and Encryption on Low Power Platform”
`Amey Kulkarni, Colin Shea, Houman Homayoun and Tinoosh Mohsenin
`Design, Automation & Test in Europe, (DATE 2017).
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`(70) “Spatial and Temporal Scheduling of Clock Arrival Times for IR Hot-Spot Mitigation, Reformulation
`of Peak Current Reduction”
`Bhoopal Gunna, Lakshmi Bhamidipati, Houman Homayoun and Avesta Sasan
`ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, ISLPED 2017.
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`(69) “A Power Delivery Network and Cell Placement Aware IR-Drop Mitigation Technique: Harvesting
`Unused Timing Slacks to Schedule Useful Skews”
`Lakshmi Bhamidipati, Bhoopal Gunna, Houman Homayoun, Avesta Sasan
`IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, (ISVLSI 2017).
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`(68) “Machine Learning-based Approaches for Energy Efficiency Prediction and Scheduling in Composite
`Cores Architectures”
`Hossein Sayadi, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2017). Runner Up for Best Paper
`Award.
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`(67) “Understanding the Role of Memory Subsystem on Performance and Energy-Efficiency of Hadoop
`Applications” (Invited Talk)
`Hosein Makrani, Shahab Tabatabaei, Setareh Rafatirad and Houman Homayoun
`The Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, (IGSC 2017).
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`(66) “Scheduling Multithreaded Applications onto Heterogeneous Composite Cores Architectures”
`Hossein Sayadi, Houman Homayoun
`The Eighth International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, (IGSC 2017).
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`(65) “Work Load Scheduling For Multi Core Systems With Under-Provisioned Power Delivery”
`Divya Pathak, Houman Homayoun, Ioannis Savidis
`27th ACM International Conference of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, (GLSVLSI 2017).
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`2016
`(64) “Big Data Analytics on Heterogeneous Accelerator Architectures” (Invited Talk)
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE/ACM International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis,
`(CODES+ISSS) 2016.
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`(63) “Dynamic Single and Dual Rail Spin Transfer Torque Look Up Tables with Enhanced Robustness
`under CMOS and MTJ Process Variations”
`Aliyar Attaran, Hassan Salmani, Houman Homayoun and Hamid Mahmoodi
`IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2016.
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`(62) “Hybrid STT-CMOS Designs for Reverse-Engineering Prevention”
`Ted Winograd, Hassan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi, Kris Gaj, Houman Homayoun
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`Acceptance
`rate 27%
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`IISWC
`Acceptance
`rate 27%
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`DAC
`Acceptance
`rate 22%
`DATE
`Acceptance
`rate 24%
`DATE
`Acceptance
`rate 24%
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`ISLPED
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`ISVLSI
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`ICCD
`Acceptance
`rate 29%
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`IGSC
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`IGSC
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`GLSIVLSI
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`CODES-
`ISSS
`Acceptance
`rate 23%
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`ICCD
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`DAC
`Acceptance
`rate 21%
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`ACM/IEEE 53rd Design Automation Conference. (DAC 2016).
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`(61) “Characterizing Hadoop Applications on Microservers for Performance and Energy Efficiency
`Optimizations”
`Maria Malik, Setareh Rafatirad, Rajiv Joshi, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, (ISPASS) 2016.
`
`(60) “Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Magnetic Tunnel Junction and CMOS Logic Circuits”.
`Darya Almasi, Houman Homayoun, Hassan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi
`29th IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), 2016.
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`(59) “Heterogeneous Chip Multiprocessor Architectures for Big Data Applications”. (Invited Talk)
`Houman Homayoun
`ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF) 2016.
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`(58) “Low-Power ManyCore Accelerator for Personalized Biomedical Applications”(Best Paper Award)
`Adam Page, Nasrin Attaran, Colin Shea, Houman Homayoun, Tinoosh Mohsenin
`ACM International Conference of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, (GLSVLSI) 2016.
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`(57) “Architecture Exploration for Energy-Efficient Embedded Vision Applications: From General
`Purpose Processor to Domain Specific Accelerator”.
` Maria Malik, Farnoud Farahmand, Paul Otto, Nima Akhlaghi, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Siddhartha Sikdar,
`Houman Homayoun.
`IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2016.
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`(56) “Load Balanced On-Chip Power Delivery for Average Current Demand”
`Divya Pathak, Mohammad Hajkazemi, Mohammad Tavana, Houman Homayoun and Ioannis Savidis
`ACM International Conference of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, (GLSVLSI) 2016.
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`(55) “Reliability Analysis of Spin Transfer Torque Based Look Up Tables Under Process Variations”
`Ragh Kuttappa, Hassan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS) 2016.
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`(54) “Energy Efficient On-Chip Power Delivery with Run-Time Voltage Regulator Clustering”
`Divya Pathak, Mohammad Khavari Tavana, Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Houman Homayoun
`and Ioannis Savidis
`IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS) 2016.
`
` (53) "Big Biomedical Image Processing Hardware Acceleration: A Case Study for K-means and Image
`Filtering ". (Invited Special Session Talk)
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Arezou Koohi, Maria Malik, Setareh Rafatirad, Avesta Sasan, Houman
`Homayoun
`IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS) 2016.
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`(52) "Preventing Design Reverse Engineering with Reconfigurable Spin Transfer Torque LUT Gates".
`Ted Winograd, Hasan Salmani, Hamid Mahmoodi, Houman Homayoun
`17th International Symposium on Quality of Electronic Design, (ISQED) 2016.
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`2015
`(51) "System and Architecture Level Characterization of Big Data Applications on Big and Little Core
`Server Architectures".
`Maria Malik, Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun
`IEEE BigData Conference 2015.
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`(50) "Energy-Efficient Acceleration of Big Data Analytics Applications Using FPGAs".
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Maria Malik, Mohammad Ali Ghodrat, Avesta Sasan, Houman Homayoun.
`IEEE BigData Conference 2015.
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`(49) "Wide I/O or LPDDR? Exploration and Analysis of Performance, Power and Temperature Trade-offs
`of Emerging DRAM Technologies in Embedded MPSoCs".
`Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Mohammad Khavari Tavana and Houman Homayoun
`IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015.
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`ISPASS
`Acceptance
`rate 24%
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`SOCC
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`CF
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`GLSVLSI
`Acceptance
`rate 27%
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`ISVLSI
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`GLSVLSI
`Acceptance
`rate 27%
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`ISCAS
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`ISCAS
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`ISCAS
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`ISQED
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`BigData
`Acceptance
`rate 17%
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`BigData
`Acceptance
`rate 17%
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`ICCD
`Acceptance
`rate 28%
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`(48) "Big Data on Low Power Cores Are Low Power Embedded Processors a Good Fit for the Big Data
`Workloads?".
`Maria Malik and Houman Homayoun
`IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015.
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`(47) "Realizing Complexity-Effective On-Chip Power Delivery for Many-Core Platforms by Exploiting
`Optimized Mapping".
`Mohammad Khavari Tavana, Divya Pathak, Mohammad Hossein Hajkazemi, Maria Malik, Ioannis
`Savidis and Houman Homayoun
`IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015.
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`(46) "Power and Performance Characterization, Analysis and Tuning for Energy-efficient Edge Detection
`on Atom and ARM Based Platforms".
`Paul Otto, Maria Malik, Nima Akhlaghi, Rebel Sequeira, Houman Homayoun and Siddhartha Sikdar
`IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2015.
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`(45) “Accelerating Big Data Analytics Using FPGAs”.
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Maria Malik, Mohammad Ali Ghodrat, Houman Homayoun.
`The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines,
`2015.
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`(44) “ElasticCore: Enabling Dynamic Heterogeneity with Joint Core and Voltage/Frequency Scaling”.
`Mohammad Khavari Tavana, Mohammad Hajkazemi, Divya Pathak, Ioannis Savidis, Houman
`Homayoun
`ACM/IEEE 52TH Design Automation Conference. (DAC 2015).
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`(43) “Just-in-time component-wise power and thermal modeling”
`Shah Mohammad Faizur Rahman, Qing Yi, Houman Homayoun
`2015 ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, (CF 2015).
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`(42) “Accelerating Machine Learning Kernels in Hadoop Using FPGAs”.
`Katayoun Neshatpour, Maria Malik, Mohammad Ali Ghodrat, Houman Homayoun
`15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, 2015.
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`(41) “Adaptive Bandwidth Management for Performance-Temperature Trade-offs in Heterogeneous
`HMC+DDRx Memory”.
`Mohammad Hossein