Massoud Pedram | |
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| Born | Ahvaz, Iran |
| Citizenship | United States Iran |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation(s) | Stephen and Etta Varra Professor ofMing Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Southern California ofUniversity of Southern California |
| Known for | Power optimization (EDA) |
| Awards | PECASE (1996) IEEE Fellow (2001) ACM Distinguished Scientist (2008) IEEE CAS Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award (2015) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Engineering |
| Institutions | University of Southern California |
| Thesis | An Integrated Approach to Logic Synthesis and Physical Design (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest S. Kuh |
| Website | sportlab |
Massoud Pedram (Persian:مسعود پدرام) (born in Ahvaz) is anIranian American computer engineer noted for his research ingreen computing, energy storage systems,low-power electronics and design,electronic design automation andquantum computing.[1]In the early 1990s, Pedram pioneered an approach to designingVLSI circuits that consideredphysical effects duringlogic synthesis. He named this approach layout-driven logic synthesis, which was subsequently called physical synthesis and incorporated into the standardEDA design flows.[2] Pedram's early work on this subject became a significantprior art reference in a litigation betweenSynopsys Inc. andMagma Design Automation.[3]
Massoud Pedram was born inAhvaz,Khuzestan,Iran. He came to theUnited States to continue his higher education in 1983. He received aB.S. degree inelectrical engineering from theCalifornia Institute of Technology in 1986 andM.S. andPh.D. degrees inelectrical engineering andcomputer sciences (EECS) from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1991, respectively. The EECS department ofUniversity of California, Berkeley, listed him as one of her distinguished alumni.[4]
Pedram then joined the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering inViterbi School of Engineering of theUniversity of Southern California, where he is currently the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor.[5][6] Some of his doctoral students, includingDiana Marculescu,Radu Marculescu andPayam Heydari have become notable academics.
Pedram has served on the technical program committee of a number of conferences, including theDesign Automation Conference (DAC),Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE),Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC),International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), and International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS). He served as the technical program chair and the general chair of the 2002[7][8] and 2003[9]International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) and the general chair of the 2007 International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED).[10] He served as the inauguraleditor-in-chief (EiC) of theIEEEJournal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS).[11] He also served as theEiC of theACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).[12]Pedram served as theIEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vice President (Publications) in 2006.[13]
Pedram co-founded and served as the general co-chair of the firstACM International Workshop on Low Power Design in 1994.[14] When this workshop merged with theIEEE Workshop on Low Power Electronics in 1996, Pedram served as a co-founder and the technical co-chair of the first International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED).[15]
Pedram has been on theadvisory board of several companies, includingAtrenta Inc.,[16]Envis Corp,[17] andMagma Design Automation.[18]
Pedram's awards and recognition have included:
Additionally, Pedram was an ACM Distinguished Speaker.[28] He has been granted 10US patents.[29] He was one of tenprincipal investigators fromacademia in theUnited States who were selected byDARPA to fund for thePower Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) program.[30][31]
Pedram has published four books, 13 book chapters, and more than 560 journal and conference papers.[32] According toGoogle Scholar,[33] his research have been cited more than 17,800 times till 2015. His publications have received a number of awards including twoDAC Best Paper Awards,[34][35] a Distinguished Paper Citation fromICCAD, three ICCD Best Paper Awards, two IEEE Transactions Best Paper Awards,[36][37] and an ISLPED best paper award.[38] At the 50th anniversary of theDesign Automation Conference held in 2013, Pedram was recognized as one of the fourDAC Prolific Authors (with 50+ papers) and theDAC Bronze Cited Author.[39]
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