Dr. Maryam Parsa

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Dr. Maryam Parsa is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University. Prior to joining George Mason University, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Beyond Moore Computing group. She received her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Center for Brain Inspired Computing (C-BRIC) at Purdue university under supervision of Prof. Kaushik Roy in December 2020. She received her Master’s degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from uOttawa, and Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 2013 and 2015, respectively. She was the recipient of several prestigious awards including Intel/SRC PhD fellowship for four years, ORNL ASTRO fellowship, Purdue university Ross fellowship, and TECHCON student presenter award. She has also worked at Intel Corporation in 2014 and 2016 as research intern.

Dr. Parsa's research interests are in the areas of neuromorphic computing, neural architecture search and Bayesian optimization across the full stack of materials, devices, circuits, systems , algorithms, and applications. Her goal is to not only enable accurate, fast, energy-efficient, and resilient intelligence at the edge through algorithm-hardware codesign, but also to develop novel hierarchical learning/training approaches based on Bayesian optimization, evolutionary optimization, and synaptic learning rules for distributed autonomous systems. She has been exploiting her research expertise in wide range of applications such as computational neuroscience, smart healthcare diagnosis, and cyber-physical systems.

Full-Time PhD

Sanaz Kazemi Abharian

Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Spring 2022
Previous Degree: MSc in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2016
Previous Degree: BSc in Computer Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2012

Ayana Moshruba

Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Spring 2022
Previous Degree: BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh, 2021

Shay Elliot Snyder

Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Spring 2023
Previous Degree: BSc in Computer Science, East Tennessee State University, 2022

Kevin Zhu

Position: Graduate Research Assistant; Co-Advised with Dr. Cameron Nowzari
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Fall 2022
Previous Degree: BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, 2021

Hamed Poursiami

Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Fall 2022
Previous Degree: M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2019
Previous Degree: B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran, 2016

Part-Time PhD

Derek Gobin

Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Spring 2023
Previous Degree: MS in Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, 2020
Previous Degree: BS in Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014

Masters

Maria Victoria Clerico Da Costa

Position: Research Assistant
Program: MS in Computer Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and George Mason University
Previous Degree: BS in Telecommunications Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Undergraduate Students

Khang Diep

Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Program: BSc in Electrical Engineering, George Mason University

Saba Niknam

Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Program: BSc in Mechanical Engineering, George Mason University