Alireza Nazari

(505)-234-5253
anazari@gatech.edu​ ​cc.gatech.edu/~anazari3

Education & PhD, Computer Science,​ Aug 2014- May 2019 (expected)
Qualifications ​ A, USA
Georgia Institute of Technology​, G
Overall GPA​: ​4.0/​4.0
Advisor:​ Dr. Milos Prvulovic

Master of Business Administration,​ Jan 2018-May 2019 (expected)

​ eorgia Institute of Technology​, G
Scheller College of Business​, G ​ A, USA
Overall GPA​: ​4.0/​4.0

M.S., Computer Science,​ Jan 2017-May 2018

​ A, USA
Georgia Institute of Technology​, G
Overall GPA​: ​4.0/​4.0

M.S., Electrical Engineering,​ Jan 2012-June 2014

​ M, USA
New Mexico State University​, N
​ erformance Evaluation of Shared-Memory Coherency Protocols Facing Graph
Thesis: P
Applications
Overall GPA​: ​4.0/​4.0
Advisor:​ Dr. Jeanine Cook

B.S., Computer Engineering​, August 2007-July 2011

Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
Overall GPA​: ​17.02/​20​ (3.75/​4.0​)
Final project:​ High performance spoken digit recognition with Artificial Neural Networks
and Hidden Markov Model (HMM)
Advisor:​ Dr. Alireza Behrad

Honors & ● Honorable mention in​ IEEE Micro Top Picks 2018
Awards ● Best paper award, ​MICRO 2016
● Merit Based Scholarship in Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech, 2018
● Merit Based Scholarship in College of Computing, Georgia Tech, 2014
● NM State University Honor Graduate, ​Spring 2014
● NM State University Outstanding Graduate Assistantship Award​, Spring 2013
● NM State University Alumni Scholarship​, Spring 2012

Elective & Advanced Software Development(Alex Orso) - Advance Microarchitecture (Heysoon Kim)
Graduate -Reliable and Secure Computer Architecture(Milos Prvulovic)- Compiler Design &
Courses Development(Santosh Pande) - Advanced Memory Systems(Moin Qureshi) - GPU
Architecture(Sudha Yalamanchili) - Computer Performance Analysis (Jeanine Cook) -
Advance Computer Architecture (Yuho Jin)- Advanced logic design - VLSI(I) - Object
Oriented Programming - Data Structure - Operating Systems

Programming ● C/C++ ● Heterogeneous platform

Skills ● Java programming- CUDA, OpenCl
● Compiler optimization/LLVM/CLang ● VHDL and Verilog
● Python ● OpenMP
● MATLAB
Interests ● Reliable & Secure Computer Architecture
● Emerging technologies in Heterogeneous Architecture- Processing-in-Memory,
GPGPU
● Performance analysis and workload characterization for high performance computing

Teaching ● CS6290 Adv. Computer Architecture(TA),​ Spring 2015, Fall 2014, GaTech
Experience ● CS 3220 Processor Design (TA),​ Fall 2014, GaTech
● EE280 AC/DC Circuits (TA),​ Fall and Spring 2012, NMSU
● Advance Programming (TA), ​Spring 2010-20111, Shahed University

Experience Summer Intern, ​May​-​Aug 2018,

Nvidia Corp.​, Santa Clara, CA, USA

Summer Intern, ​May​-​Aug 2017,

Apple Inc.​, Cupertino, CA, USA

Research Assistant, ​Aug 2014​-​Now,

CompArch Lab​, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, USA
● Exploring software profiling via side-channel signal on IoT devices
● Exploring potentials of side-channel signal in malware detection on IoT devices
○ Programming in C/C++ and work with full system simulators(e.g. SESC)
○ Providing compiler support by Clang and LLVM tool chain
○ EM side-channel measurement by spectrum analyzer
● Investigation of memory-side prefetching techniques effectiveness in GPGPU+​PIM
○ Using SST+Macsim to investigate memory-side prefetching
● Scalable Virtual Address Translation for Processing-in-Memory
○ Using USIMM to model PIM heterogeneous architecture
● Implementation of GPGPU emulator for HARP architecture GPU
○ Developing an GPGPU simulator in C++ for in-house architecture
● Array Bounds Checking Optimizations in LLVM
○ Implementation of passes using LLVM/Clang
● Cache Replacement Policy and Data Prefetching Championships
○ Evaluation and comparison between SHiP-PC, DRRIP, and EAF cache
replacement policies by CMPSim simulator
○ Evaluation and comparison of different prefetching policies such as AMPM

Research Assistant, ​May 2012-Now,

Advanced Computer Architecture, Performance and Simulation Laboratory (ACAPS)​,
NMSU, NM, USA
● Statistical analysis of cache behavior in multicore facing big data
○ Programming in C/C++/Python and work with​ ​Simulators such as​ ​GEM5,
MARSS X86 and benchmarks such as Graph500, SSCA2 and HeatPlate
● Evaluation of OpenCL-FPGA programming model with N-body algorithm
○ Programming in OpenCl, OpenMP and work with Altera’s OpenCL-FPGA
solution
● Analysis of hardware prefetch in multicore
○ Programing in C++ and using simulators such as​ ​Simics, GEMS and
benchmarks such as PARSEC
Publications ● “EMPROF: Memory Profiling via EM emanarion in IoT and Hand-Held Devices”,
Alireza Nazari​, Moumiita Dey, Alenka Zajic, Milos Prvulovic, ​Micro 2018

● “EDDIE: EM-Based Detection of Deviations in Program Execution”,​ Alireza

Nazari​, Nader Sehatbakhsh, Alenka Zajic, Milos Prvulovic ,​ISCA 2017​. ​Micro Top
picks 2018

● “STEEL Software Attestation for Embedded System Using Electromagnetic Signals”​,

Nader Sehatbakhsh, ​Alireza Nazari​, Alenka Zajic, Milos Prvulovic, ​ASPLOS 2019
(Submitted)

● “Spectral Proling: Observer-Effect-Free Proling by Monitoring EM Emanations”,​

Nader Sehatbakhsh, ​Alireza Nazari​, Alenka Zajic, Milos Prvulovic ,​MICRO 2016
(First two authors made same contribution)-​Best paper award recipient

● “SAFEM: Spectral Analysis for Finding Execution of Malware”, ​Nader Sehatbakhsh,

Alireza Nazari​, Alenka Zajic, Milos Prvulovic, ​HOST 2018