Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering

Graduate Exam Abstract

ASIF ANWAR BAIG MIRZA
Ph.D. Qualifying
Apr 28, 2021, 8:00 am - 10:00 am
N/A
N/A - qualifying exam
Abstract: qualifying exam
Adviser: Nikdast Mahdi
Co-Adviser: Sudeep Pasricha
Non-ECE Member: Samuel Brewer
Member 3: Ryan Kim
Addional Members: Karim Hassan
Publications:
F. Sunny, A. Mirza, I. Thakkar, M. Nikdast, and S. Pasricha, “ARXON: A Framework for Approximate Communication over Photonic Networks-on-Chip,” to appear, IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2021.

F. Sunny, A. Mirza, M. Nikdast, and S. Pasricha, “CrossLight: A Cross-Layer Optimized Silicon Photonic Neural Network Accelerator,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, December 2021.

A. Mirza, S. Pasricha, and M. Nikdast, “Variation-Aware Inter-Device Matching in Silicon Photonic Microring Resonator Demultiplexers,” IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 2020, pp. 1-2.

F. Sunny, A. Mirza, I. Thakkar, S. Pasricha, and M. Nikdast, “LORAX: Loss-Aware Approximations for Energy-Efficient Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip”, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), September 2020, pp. 235-240.

A. Mirza, F. Sunny, S. Pasricha, and M. Nikdast, “Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators: Design Optimization under Fabrication Non-uniformity”, IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference and Exhibition, Grenoble, France, March 2020, pp. 484-489.

A. Mirza, S. Manafi Avari, E. Taheri, S. Pasricha, and M. Nikdast, “Opportunities for Cross-Layer Design in High-Performance Computing Systems with Integrated Silicon Photonic Networks”, IEEE/ACM Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference and Exhibition, Grenoble, France, March 2020, pp. 1622-1627.

Publications to be Reviewed:
Performance prediction for silicon photonics integrated circuits with layout-dependent correlated manufacturing variability

Design of optical neural networks with component imprecisions

Program of Study:
ECE581C1
ECE656
GRAD580A2
ECE554
ECE580B9
ECE580B6
CS455
CS530