Deniz Najafi

21 papers A* 2A 2Journal 8Unranked 9
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Opto-Aligner: Optical Near-Sensor Architecture for Accelerating DNA Pre-Alignment Filtering.
IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Circuits Syst.
Deniz Najafi, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Zahra Ghanaatian, Mehrdad Morsali, Hanning Chen, Tamoghno Das, Arman Roohi, Pietro Mercati, Mahdi Nikdast, Mohsen Imani, Shaahin Angizi
2025 A* conf
DeepCompress-ViT: Rethinking Model Compression to Enhance Efficiency of Vision Transformers at the Edge.
CVPR
Sabbir Ahmed, Abdullah Al Arafat, Deniz Najafi, Akhlak Mahmood, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Ranyang Zhou, Shaahin Angizi, Adnan Siraj Rakin
2025 — conf
Dyna-Optics: Architecting a Channel-Adaptive DNN Near-Sensor Optical Accelerator for Dynamic Inference.
COINS
Deniz Najafi, Wanhao Yu, Mehrdad Morsali, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Li Yang, Shaahin Angizi
2025 — conf
Event-Driven Spatiotemporal Processing-In-Sensor with Phase Change Memory-based Optical Acceleration.
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Mehrdad Morsali, Deniz Najafi, Amin Shafiee, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani, Arman Roohi, Navid Khoshavi, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi
2025 — conf
From Pixels to Reasoning: A Cross-Layer Photonic Design for Edge Visual Intelligence.
ISVLSI
Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Brendan Reidy, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Arman Roohi, Mahdi Nikdast, Ramtin Zand, Mohsen Imani, Shaahin Angizi
2025 — conf
Magnetic In/Near-Sensor Architectures: From Raw Sensing to Smart Processing.
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Sepehr Tabrizchi, Ali Shafiee Sarvestani, Md Hasibul Amin, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Ramtin Zand, Arman Roohi
2025 — conf
Maximizing Sub-Array Resource Utilization in Digital Processing-in-Memory: A Versatile Hardware-Aware Approach.
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Gamana Aragonda, Deniz Najafi, Deepak Vungarala, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi
2025 J jnl
Neuro-Photonix: Enabling Near-Sensor Neuro-Symbolic AI Computing on Silicon Photonics Substrate.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Artif. Intell.
Deniz Najafi, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Mehrdad Morsali, Sungheon Jeong, Tamoghno Das, Arman Roohi, Mahdi Nikdast, Mohsen Imani, Shaahin Angizi
2025 A conf
Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics.
ICCAD
Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi, Sreetama Sarkar, Pietro Mercati, Navid Khoshavi, Peter A. Beerel, Mahdi Nikdast, Gourav Datta, Shaahin Angizi
2025 J jnl
Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics.
CoRR
Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi, Sreetama Sarkar, Pietro Mercati, Navid Khoshavi, Peter A. Beerel, Mahdi Nikdast, Gourav Datta, Shaahin Angizi
2024 — conf
DECO: Dynamic Energy-aware Compression and Optimization for In-Memory Neural Networks.
MWSCAS
Rebati Raman Gaire, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Arman Roohi
2024 — conf
Hybrid Magneto-electric FET-CMOS Integrated Memory Design for Instant-on Computing.
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Deniz Najafi, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Ranyang Zhou, Mohammadreza Amel Solouki, Andrew Marshall, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi
2024 A* conf
Lightator: An Optical Near-Sensor Accelerator with Compressive Acquisition Enabling Versatile Image Processing.
DAC
Mehrdad Morsali, Brendan Reidy, Deniz Najafi, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Ramtin Zand, Shaahin Angizi
2024 J jnl
Lightator: An Optical Near-Sensor Accelerator with Compressive Acquisition Enabling Versatile Image Processing.
CoRR
Mehrdad Morsali, Brendan Reidy, Deniz Najafi, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Ramtin Zand, Shaahin Angizi
2024 J jnl
Neuro-Photonix: Enabling Near-Sensor Neuro-Symbolic AI Computing on Silicon Photonics Substrate.
CoRR
Deniz Najafi, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Mehrdad Morsali, Sungheon Jeong, Tamoghno Das, Arman Roohi, Mahdi Nikdast, Mohsen Imani, Shaahin Angizi
2024 A conf
OISA: Architecting an Optical In-Sensor Accelerator for Efficient Visual Computing.
DATE
Mehrdad Morsali, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi
2024 — conf
ResSen: Imager Privacy Enhancement Through Residue Arithmetic Processing in Sensors.
ISVLSI
Nedasadat Taheri, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Arman Roohi
2024 J jnl
ViTSen: Bridging Vision Transformers and Edge Computing With Advanced In/Near-Sensor Processing.
IEEE Embed. Syst. Lett.
Sepehr Tabrizchi, Brendan C. Reidy, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Ramtin Zand, Arman Roohi
2023 — conf
Accelerating Low Bit-width Neural Networks at the Edge, PIM or FPGA: A Comparative Study.
ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI
Nakul Kochar, Lucas Ekiert, Deniz Najafi, Deliang Fan, Shaahin Angizi
2023 J jnl
Enabling Normally-off In-Situ Computing with a Magneto-Electric FET-based SRAM Design.
CoRR
Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Ranyang Zhou, Arman Roohi, Andrew Marshall, Durga Misra, Shaahin Angizi
2023 J jnl
OISA: Architecting an Optical In-Sensor Accelerator for Efficient Visual Computing.
CoRR
Mehrdad Morsali, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi