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 (ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 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)

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 (DAC, 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 (DATE, 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 (ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 2024)

ResSen: Imager Privacy Enhancement Through Residue Arithmetic Processing in Sensors. - Nedasadat Taheri; Sepehr Tabrizchi; Deniz Najafi; Shaahin Angizi; Arman Roohi (ISVLSI, 2024)

DECO: Dynamic Energy-aware Compression and Optimization for In-Memory Neural Networks. - Rebati Raman Gaire; Sepehr Tabrizchi; Deniz Najafi; Shaahin Angizi; Arman Roohi (MWSCAS, 2024)

Neuro-Photonix: Enabling Near-Sensor Neuro-Symbolic AI Computing on Silicon Photonics Substrate. - Deniz Najafi; Hamza Errahmouni Barkam; Mehrdad Morsali; Sungheon Jeong 001; Tamoghno Das; Arman Roohi; Mahdi Nikdast; Mohsen Imani; Shaahin Angizi (CoRR, 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., 2024)

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 009; Shaahin Angizi (COINS, 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 (CVPR, 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 (ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 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 (ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 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 (ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 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 (ISVLSI, 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 (CoRR, 2025)