Deniz Najafi

According to our database, Deniz Najafi authored at least 21 papers between 2023 and 2026.

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2026

Light-Bound Transformers: Hardware-Anchored Robustness for Silicon-Photonic Computer Vision Systems.

Xuming Chen, Deniz Najafi, Chengwei Zhou, Pietro Mercati, Arman Roohi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi, Gourav Datta

CoRR, April, 2026

Opto-Aligner: Optical Near-Sensor Architecture for Accelerating DNA Pre-Alignment Filtering.

Deniz Najafi, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Zahra Ghanaatian, Mehrdad Morsali, Hanning Chen, Tamoghno Das, Arman Roohi, Pietro Mercati, Mahdi Nikdast, Mohsen Imani, Shaahin Angizi

IEEE J. Emerg. Sel. Topics Circuits Syst., March, 2026

Shallow Enough? A Cross-Architecture Study of Ultra-Low-Depth Neural Networks for Edge Inference.

Chengwei Zhou, Haotian Yu, Shoma Yukawa, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Gourav Datta

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026, 2026

Photonics-Enabled Edge Processing: A Vision for Near-Sensor Optical Intelligence.

Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Mahdi Nikdast

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2026, 2026

INSPIRE: In-Sensor Compressed Weight Retrieval for Enhancing ViT Efficiency at Edge.

Sabbir Ahmed, Deniz Najafi, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Navid Khoshavi, Abdullah Al Arafat, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, Mahdi Nikdast, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference, 2026

2025

Neuro-Photonix: Enabling Near-Sensor Neuro-Symbolic AI Computing on Silicon Photonics Substrate.

Deniz Najafi, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Mehrdad Morsali, SungHeon Jeong, Tamoghno Das, Arman Roohi, Mahdi Nikdast, Mohsen Imani, Shaahin Angizi

IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Artif. Intell., June, 2025

From Pixels to Reasoning: A Cross-Layer Photonic Design for Edge Visual Intelligence.

Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Hamza Errahmouni Barkam, Brendan Reidy, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Arman Roohi, Mahdi Nikdast, Ramtin Zand, Mohsen Imani, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2025

Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics.

Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi, Sreetama Sarkar, Pietro Mercati, Navid Khoshavi, Peter A. Beerel, Mahdi Nikdast, Gourav Datta, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design, 2025

Magnetic In/Near-Sensor Architectures: From Raw Sensing to Smart Processing.

Sepehr Tabrizchi, Ali Shafiee Sarvestani, Md Hasibul Amin, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Ramtin Zand, Arman Roohi

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2025, GLSVLSI 2025, New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 June 2025, 2025

Event-Driven Spatiotemporal Processing-In-Sensor with Phase Change Memory-based Optical Acceleration.

Mehrdad Morsali, Deniz Najafi, Amin Shafiee, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani, Arman Roohi, Navid Khoshavi, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2025, GLSVLSI 2025, New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 June 2025, 2025

Maximizing Sub-Array Resource Utilization in Digital Processing-in-Memory: A Versatile Hardware-Aware Approach.

Gamana Aragonda, Deniz Najafi, Deepak Vungarala, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2025, GLSVLSI 2025, New Orleans, LA, USA, 30 June 2025, 2025

DeepCompress-ViT: Rethinking Model Compression to Enhance Efficiency of Vision Transformers at the Edge.

Sabbir Ahmed, Abdullah Al Arafat, Deniz Najafi, Akhlak Mahmood, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Ranyang Zhou, Shaahin Angizi, Adnan Siraj Rakin

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2025

Dyna-Optics: Architecting a Channel-Adaptive DNN Near-Sensor Optical Accelerator for Dynamic Inference.

Deniz Najafi, Wanhao Yu, Mehrdad Morsali, Pietro Mercati, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Li Yang, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems, 2025

2024

ViTSen: Bridging Vision Transformers and Edge Computing With Advanced In/Near-Sensor Processing.

Sepehr Tabrizchi, Brendan C. Reidy, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Ramtin Zand, Arman Roohi

IEEE Embed. Syst. Lett., December, 2024

DECO: Dynamic Energy-aware Compression and Optimization for In-Memory Neural Networks.

Rebati Raman Gaire, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Arman Roohi

Proceedings of the 67th IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2024

ResSen: Imager Privacy Enhancement Through Residue Arithmetic Processing in Sensors.

Nedasadat Taheri, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Shaahin Angizi, Arman Roohi

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, 2024

Hybrid Magneto-electric FET-CMOS Integrated Memory Design for Instant-on Computing.

Deniz Najafi, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Ranyang Zhou, Mohammadreza Amel Solouki, Andrew Marshall, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2024, 2024

OISA: Architecting an Optical In-Sensor Accelerator for Efficient Visual Computing.

Mehrdad Morsali, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition, 2024

Lightator: An Optical Near-Sensor Accelerator with Compressive Acquisition Enabling Versatile Image Processing.

Mehrdad Morsali, Brendan Reidy, Deniz Najafi, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Ramtin Zand, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the 61st ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, 2024

2023

Enabling Normally-off In-Situ Computing with a Magneto-Electric FET-based SRAM Design.

Deniz Najafi, Mehrdad Morsali, Ranyang Zhou, Arman Roohi, Andrew Marshall, Durga Misra, Shaahin Angizi

CoRR, 2023

Accelerating Low Bit-width Neural Networks at the Edge, PIM or FPGA: A Comparative Study.

Nakul Kochar, Lucas Ekiert, Deniz Najafi, Deliang Fan, Shaahin Angizi

Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2023, 2023