Akbar Sharifi

Department of Computer Eng. Sharif University of Technology

Azadi Ave., Tehran, Iran

Cell Phone: +98 (912) ---7426

Email: a_sharifi@ce.sharif.edu, akbar.sharifi@yahoo.com

EDUCATION

M.S. , Computer Architecture

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN, Sep. 2005 – now

Dissertation Title: “Performance Analysis of 3D NOCs”

Advisors: Prof. Hamid Sarbazi-Azad

GPA (up to now) 18.23 out of 20.00

B.S. Computer Engineering (Hardware)

University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN, Sep. 2001 – Sep. 2005

Project Title: “SOC Design for an Image Filter on the basis of Evolvable Hardware”

Advisors: Prof. S. Mehdi Fakhraei

GPA 16.94 out of 20.00

Diploma, Physics and Mathematics

Shahid Dastgheib High School (Exceptional Talents), Shiraz, IRAN, Sep. 1997 – Jul. 2001

GPA 19.2 out of 20.00

HONORS AND REWARDS

Rank 1 among 20 students of computer engineering (Hardware) at University of Tehran.

Rank 4 among 80 students of computer engineering (Hardware and Software) at University of Tehran.

RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE

HS-Co design and System C implementation of JPEG standard.
Implementation of JPEG standard on NOIS programmable board.
Research on Evolvable Hardware and Evolutionary Algorithms.
Research on Fault-Tolerance in NOCs.
Research on Performance Analysis of NOCs.

CURRENT RESEARCH AND ACTIVITIES

Sept. 2006- now

Research on Power Consumption and Performance Analysis of 3D Network-on-Chips.

COURSES

Low Power Design (19.5)
Digital Testing and Design for Testability ( 19 )
Discrete Signal Processing (18.2 )
Advanced VLSI Architecture ( 17.5 )
Advanced Fault Tolerant Systems ( 17.8 )
Interconnection Networks (17.5)
Advanced Digital Signal Processing ( 17.5)
Advanced Computer Architecture ( 15.5 )
Seminar ( 18.1 )

PUBLICATIONS

Conference Papers

1. Akbar Sharifi and Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, “Power Consumption and Performance Analysis of 3D NOCs”, LNCS 4697, pp. 209-219, ACSAC'07, Seoul, Korea.

2. Akbar Sharifi, Reza Sabbaghi-Nadoushan and Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, “The Shuffle-Exchange Mesh Topology for 3D NOCs,” Accepted and to be appeared in the proceedings of I-SPAN’08, Sydney, Australia.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

Summer 2007, Teaching Assistant, (Computer Architecture Lab.), Sharif University of Technology.

Jan. 2007- May 2007, Teaching Assistant, (Digital Systems Design), Sharif University of Technology.

Jan. 2007- May. 2007, Teaching Assistant, (Computer Architecture), Sharif University of Technology.

Jan. 2007- May 2007, Teaching Assistant, (Digital Logic Circuits), Sharif University of Technology.

Sep. 2004-Jan. 2005, Teaching Assistant, (Computer Architecture), University of Tehran.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Hardware Description Languages: Expert in VHDL and Verilog.

EDA Tools: Modelsim, MaxPlusII, L-Edit, S-Edit, HSPICE.

Programming Languages and Libraries: Expert in C/C++ and Java, Matlab.

Applications: common Windows spreadsheet and presentation software, Photoshop.

TEST TAKEN

TOEFL (iBT): 100/120 - Reading 26, Listening 25, Speaking 22, Writing 27.

INTERESTED AREAS

Computer Architecture
High Performance Computing
Wireless Networks
Parallel Processing
Embedded Systems
Low Power Design
System and Network on Chips

HOBBIES

Movies, listening to music, Billiard, Football.

REFERENCES

Dr. Hamid Sarbazi-Azad, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, email: azad@sharif.edu.

Dr. Shahin hessabi, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, email: hessabi@sharif.edu.

Dr. A. R. Ejlali, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, email: ejlali@sharif.edu.