Amin Firoozshahian

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Contact: I graduated from Electrical Engineering department at Stanford University with a Ph.D. degree in fall 2008. I joined Stanford and VLSI Research Group in winter 2002 and worked on the Smart Memories project under supervision of professor Mark Horowitz. My Research I’m interested in computer architecture, specifically in advanced memory system architectures. My thesis project, Smart Memories, was a scalable, reconfigurable, multiprocessor system which supports multiple programming models, including coherent shared memory, streaming and transactional memory. My focus was on the design of a flexible and reconfigurable memory system, which can provide semantics and operations for all these models using unified set of hardware resources effectively. Smart Memories leveraged commercial processors, Xtensa LX, from Tensilica. Our test chip won the first prize of DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest in 2009. Die plot of Smart Memories test chip SMASH: Smart Memories test chip (high-resolution picture) Biography I was born in Ahvaz, in 1976 and grown up in Tabriz. I graduated from Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology in 1998 and entered Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in University of Tehran. I acquired my Master's degree in 2001. During the last years of my study, I involved in a lot of projects, mainly in the area of Industrial Automation, Data Acquisition and Software Programming for Industrial Machinery as a part-time engineer/consultant. I entered Stanford University in winter 2002 and graduated in fall 2008.