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.
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
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Spring 2023
Previous Degree: BS in Computer Science, East Tennessee State University, 2022
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: BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, 2021
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Fall 2022
Previous Degree: MSc in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2019
Previous Degree: BSc in Electrical Engineering, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran, 2016
Position: Graduate Research Assistant
Program: PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, since Spring 2026
Previous Degree: MSc in Software Engineering, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan, 2023
Previous Degree: BS in Information Technology, PMAS Arid Agriculture University, Pakistan, 2019
Position: Graduate Teaching Assistant: Co-Advised by Prof. Elise Miller-Hooks (CEIE)
Program: PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, George Mason University, since Fall 2021
Previous Degree: MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New Hampshire, 2015
Previous Degree: BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2013
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
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Program: BS in Electrical Engineering, George Mason University
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Program: BS in Computer Science Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
Current Position: Research Assistant at IBM Research Zurich
Past Position: Graduate Research Assistant, Fall 2023 through Summer 2024
Program: MS in Computer Engineering, George Mason University 2024
Current Position: MS of Electrical Engineering at George Mason University
Past Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2023 through Spring 2024
Past Program: BS of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at George Mason University
Current Position: MS of Integrative Neuroscience at Georgetown University
Past Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2021 through Fall 2022
Past Program: BS in Neuroscience, George Mason University
Current Position:Audio Visual Technician at Caesars Entertainment
Past Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Fall 2021 through Fall 2022
Past Program: BS in Music Technology, George Mason University