About me
I am a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department of University of Virginia (UVA) under supervision of Prof. Kevin Skadron.
My interests lie broadly in Computer Architecture, Domain Specific Accelerators, and Bioinformatics. I’m interested in exploring novel hardware and software techniques to enhance the performance, energy efficiency, and programmability of domain specific accelerators. I also have extensive experience in designing high-performance, energy-efficient embedded systems for core consumer products. You can find my CV here.
Recent highlights include:
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Computer Vision: Accelerating hybrid Transformer-CNN models for computer vision using Processing-in-Memory.
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Processing in Mamory Framework: Designed and implemented a framework to simulate various processing-in-memory (PIM) architectures and benchmarks.
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Graph Analytics: Developed TriPIM, a scalable triangle counting large graphs efficiently using processing in memory.
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Bioinformatics: Created PARMIK, a fast and memory-efficient tool for identifying partial matches in genomic sequences, surpassing BLAST in speed and accuracy.
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Cache Optimization: Enhanced graph caching with ECG, optimizing prefetching and replacement policies for graph analytics.
Recent news
| Nov. 2024 | I'm actively looking for research internship in industry starting from Summer 2025. |
| Dec. 2024 | We submitted our paper, "PARMIK: PArtial Read Matching with Inexpensive K-mers," to Genome Biology Journal, 2024. |
| Oct. 2024 | Our paper, "Swift: A Multi-FPGA Framework for Scaling Up Accelerated Graph Analytics," has been accepted in the International Conference on Field Programmable Technology (FPT), 2024. |
Publications
| BIORXIV | M. Baradaran, R. M. Layer, K. Skadron, “PARMIK: PArtial Read Matching with Inexpensive K-mers. | |
| FPT24 | O. Jaiyeoba, A. T. Mughrabi, M. Baradaran, B. Gul, K. Skadron, “Swift: A Multi-FPGA Framework for Scaling Up Accelerated Graph Analytics.” | |
| IISWC24 | F. A. Siddique, D. Guo, Z. Fan, M. Gholamrezaei, M. Baradaran, A. Ahmed, H. Abbot, K. Durrer, K. Nandagopal, E. Ermovick, K. Kiyawat, B. Gul, A. Mughrabi, A. Venkat, K. Skadron, “Architectural Modeling and Benchmarking for Digital DRAM PIM.” | |
| IPDPS24 | A. T. Mughrabi, M. Baradaran, A. Samara, K. Skadron, “ECG: Expressing Locality and Prefetching for Optimal Caching in Graph Structures. | |
| WAMCA23 | M. Baradaran, A. Ansari, M. Sadrosadati, and H. Sarbazi-Azad, “Energy Consumption Analysis of Instruction Cache Prefetching. | |
| DOSSA-5 | A. Shekar, M. Baradaran, S. Tajdari, and K. Skadron, "HashMem: PIM-based Hashmap Accelerator," in Fifth International Workshop on Domain-Specific System Architecture (DOSSA-5), 2023 | |
| NLI | M. Baradaran and M. Zarei, “Theory of Automata and Machine Language,” in National Library of Iran, ISBN 978-600-6927-22-0, 2012-2013. | |