Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Southern California
3740 McClintock Ave, EEB 300-B
Los Angeles CA
90089-2562
Email:
pedram at usc.edu
Office: (213) 740-4458
Fax:
(213) 740-9803
Biographical Sketch
Massoud Pedram obtained his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1986.
Subsequently, he received M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1991, respectively.
In September 1991, he joined the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Southern California where he currently is the Charles Lee Powell Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
Dr. Pedram is a recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award (2015), the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (1996), and
the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award (1994).
His research has received a number of other awards including two Design Automation Conference Best Paper Awards, a Distinguished Paper Citation from the Int'l Conference on Computer Aided Design, one Best Paper Award of the ACM/IEEE Int’l Symp. on Low Power Design and Electronics, three Best Paper Awards from the International Conference on Computer Design, one Best Paper Award of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symp. on VLSI, an IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award, and an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award. Dr. Pedram was recognized as one of the four DAC Prolific Authors (with 50+ papers) and the DAC Bronze Cited Author at the 50th anniversary of the Design Automation Conf., Austin, TX (2013), received a Frequent Author Award (Top Three Author Award) at the 20th Anniversary Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Chiba/Tokyo, Japan (2015), and listed as the Second Most Prolific and Second Most Cited Author at the 20th Anniversary Int’l Symp. on Low Power Electronics and Design, Rome, Italy (2015).
Research Interests
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Recent Publications
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B. Zhang, Z. Cheng, and M. Pedram. "An Iterative Montgomery Modular Multiplication Algorithm with Low Area-Time Product,” IEEE Trans. on Computers, Early Access Article, 2022.
M Soltani, M Kamal, A Afzali-Kusha, and M Pedram. "An Adaptive Memory Side Encryption Method for Improving Security and Lifetime of PCM-based Main Memory," IEEE Trans. on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Early Access Article, 2022.
M. Zolfagharinejad, M. Kamal, A. Afzali-Kusha, and M. Pedram. "Posit Process Element for Using in Energy-Efficient DNN Accelerators," IEEE Trans. Very Large Scale Integrated Systems, 30(6):844-848 (2022).
M.R. Jokar, R. Rines, G. Pasandi, H. Cong, A. Holmes, Y. Shi, M. Pedram, F.T. Chong, "DigiQ: A Scalable Digital Controller for Quantum Computers Using SFQ Logic," Proc. Int’l Symp. on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 2022:400-414.
H. Zha, N.K. Katam, M. Pedram, and M. Annavaram. "HiPerRF: A Dual-Bit Dense Storage SFQ Register File.," Proc. Int’l Symp. on High-Performance Computer Architecture, 2022:415-428.
S. Kundu, S. Wang, Q. Sun, P. A. Beerel, M. Pedram, "BMPQ: Bit-Gradient Sensitivity Driven Mixed-Precision Quantization of DNNs from Scratch," Proc. of Design Automation and Test in Europe, Dec. 2022.