Conference Papers

2021

  1. Kourosh Vali, Begum Kasap, Weitai Qian, Ata Vafi, Mahya Saffarpour, and Soheil Ghiasi, “Estimation of Fetal Blood Oxygen Saturation from Transabdominally Acquired Photoplethysmogram Waveform,” 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2021.
  2. Begum Kasap, Kourosh Vali, Weitai Qian, Wai Ho Chak, Ata Vafi, Naoki Saito, and Soheil Ghiasi, “Multi-Detector Signal Extraction Method for Transabdominal Fetal Pulse Oximetry,” 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2021.
  3. Begum Kasap, Kourosh Vali, Weitai Qian, Herman Hedriana, Aijun Wang, Diana Farmer, and Soheil Ghiasi, “Towards Noninvasive Accurate Detection of Intrapartum Fetal Hypoxic Distress,” 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN) – Special Session: New Technologies for the Future of Prenatal Health, July 2021.

2020

    1. Daniel D. Fong, Kourosh Vali, Soheil Ghiasi, “Contextually-aware Fetal Sensing in Transabdominal Fetal Pulse Oximetry,” Presented at the 2020 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week – ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), April 2020.
    2. Daniel D. Fong, Kaeli Yamashiro, M. Austin Johnson, Kourosh Vali, Laura Galganski, Christopher Pivetti, Diana Farmer, Herman Hedriana, Soheil Ghiasi, “Validation of a Novel Transcutaneous Fetal Oximeter in a Hypoxic Fetal Sheep Model,” Accepted Abstract for Oral Presentation (5% acceptance of 1,992 total) at the 40th Annual Pregnancy Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Feb 2020.
    3. Kaeli Yamashiro, Laura Galganski, Daniel D. Fong, Soheil Ghiasi, Diana Lee Farmer, Jacob Stephenson, Shinjiro Hirose, Lucas Neff, Timothy Williams, M. Austin Johnson. “Fetal Tolerance of Maternal Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in a Sheep Model,” Poster Presentation at the 40th Annual Pregnancy Meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Feb 2020.

2019

    1. Daniel D. Fong, Vivek J. Srinivasan, Kourosh Vali, and Soheil Ghiasi. “Optode Design Space Exploration for Clinically-robust Non-invasive Fetal Oximetry,” presented at Embedded Systems Week – Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ ISSS), 2019 International Conference on., New York, October 2019.
    2. Dong Wang, Ke Xu, Qun Jia, Soheil Ghiasi, “ABM-SpConv: A Novel Approach to FPGA-Based Acceleration of Convolutional Neural Network Inference,” IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), 2019

2018

    1. Daniel Fong, André Knoesen, Mohammad Motamedi, Terry O’Neill, Soheil Ghiasi. “Recovering the Fetal Signal in Transabdominal Fetal Pulse Oximetry“, IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Washington, D.C., September 2018.
    2. Daniel Fong, Xiaofan Yu, Jiageng Mao, Mahya Saffarpour, Prashant Gupta, Rami Abueshsheikh, Alejandro Velazquez Alcantar, Eric Kurzrock, Soheil Ghiasi. “Restoring the Sense of Bladder Fullness for Spinal Cord Injury Patients“, IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Washington, D.C., September 2018.
    3. Daniel Fong, Alejandro Velazquez Alcantar, Prashant Gupta, Eric Kurzrock, Soheil Ghiasi. “Non-Invasive Bladder Volume Sensing for Neurogenic Bladder Dysfunction Management“, IEEE 15th International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN), March 2018.

2017

    1. Daniel Fong, André Knoesen, Soheil Ghiasi. “Transabdominal Fetal Pulse Oximetry: The Case of Fetal Signal Optimization“, IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (HealthCom), October 2017.
    2. Oleksiy Budilovsky, Golnaz Alipour, André Knoesen, Lisa Brown, Soheil Ghiasi. “A Data-Driven Approach to Pre-Operative Evaluation of Lung Cancer Patients“, IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (HealthCom), October 2017.
    3. Mohammad Motamedi, Daniel Fong, Soheil Ghiasi, “Machine Intelligence on Resource-Constrained IoT Devices: The Case of Thread Granularity Optimization for CNN Inference” Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ ISSS), 2017 International Conference on. IEEE, 2017.
    4. Mohammad Motamedi, Daniel Fong, Soheil Ghiasi, “Fast and Energy-Efficient CNN Inference on IoT Devices“, working paper and source code

2016

    1. Seyyed Salar Latifi Oskouei, Hossein Golestani, Matin Hashemi, Soheil Ghiasi, “CNNdroid: GPU-Accelerated Execution of Trained Deep Convolutional Neural Networks on Android“, Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia, Open Source Software Competition track, October 2016
    2. Brianna Myers, Jaskaran Atwal, Chai Yang, Lisa Brown, Soheil Ghiasi, Andre Knoesen. “Towards Data-Driven Pre-Operative Evaluation of Lung Cancer Patients: The Case of Smart Mask“, IEEE Wireless Health Conference, October 2016
    3. Nicholas Hosein, and Soheil Ghiasi. “A Study of Wearable Sensor Selection, Motion Representation and its Effect on Exercise Classification“, IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), June 2016.
    4. Philipp Gysel, Mohammad Motamedi, and Soheil Ghiasi. “Hardware-oriented Approximation of Convolutional Neural Networks.“, International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR) – workshop track, May 2016
    5. Mohammad Motamedi, Philipp Gysel, Venkatesh Akella and Soheil Ghiasi, “Design Space Exploration of FPGA-Based Deep Convolutional Neural Network“, IEEE/ACM Asia-South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC),  January 2016

2015

    1. Bin Liu, Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Soheil Ghiasi and Bevan Baas,”Optimizing Power of Many-Core Systems by Exploiting Dynamic Voltage, Frequency and Core Scaling“, IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), August 2015
    2. Kamyar Mirzazad , Matin Hashemi , Volodymyr Khibiny, Soheil Ghiasi, “Implementation-Aware Model Analysis: The Case of Buffer-Throughput Tradeoff in Streaming Applications”, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), June 2015 (Download Benchmark).
    3. Kamyar Mirzazad , Matin Hashemi , Volodymyr Khibiny, Soheil Ghiasi, “Implementation-Aware Buffer-Throughput Tradeoff in Embedded Stream Applications”, IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), Workshop on Model Implementation Fidelity, March 2015

2013

    1. Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Brent Bohnenstiehl, Soheil Ghiasi, “BAMSE: A Balanced Mapping Space Exploration Algorithm for GALS-based Manycore Platforms“, IEEE/ACM Asia-South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), pp. 479-484, January 2013

2012

    1. Matin Hashemi, Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Christoph Etzel, Soheil Ghiasi, “FORMLESS: Scalable Utilization of Embedded Manycores in Streaming Applications“, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), pp. 71-78, June 2012

2011

    1. Matin Hashemi, Soheil Ghiasi, “Towards scalable utilization of embedded manycores in throughput-sensitive applications“, IEEE International High Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT), pp. 110-115, November 2011 (invited)
    2. Faisal Khan, Nicholas Hosein, Chen-Nee Chuah, Soheil Ghiasi, “Streaming Solutions For Fine-Grained Network Traffic Measurements And Analysis“, ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communication Systems (ANCS), pp. 227-238, October 2011
    3. Soheil Ghiasi, Matin Hashemi, Volodymyr Khibin, Faisal Khan, “Puzzle Solver Accelerators Make Excellent Capstone Design Projects“, IEEE International Conference on Microelectonics System Education (MSE), pp. 21-24, June 2011

2010

    1. Faisal Khan, Nicholas Hosein, Scott Vernon, Soheil Ghiasi, “BURAQ: A Dynamically Reconfigurable System for Stateful Measurement of Network Traffic“, 18th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, pp.185-192, May 2010 (24/132: 18% acceptance rate)
    2. Mohammad H. Foroozannejad, Matin Hashemi, Trevor Hodges, Soheil Ghiasi, “Look Into Details: The Benefits of Fine-Grain Streaming Buffer Analysis“, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), pp. 27-36, April 2010 (18/58: 31% acceptance rate)

2008

    1. Faisal Khan, Lihua Yuan, Chen-Nee Chuah, and Soheil Ghiasi, “A Programmable Architecture for Scalable and Real-time Network Traffic Measurements“, 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), pp. 109-118, November 2008
    2. Po-Kuan Huang, Matin Hashemi, Soheil Ghiasi, “System-Level Performance Estimation for Application-Specific MPSoC Interconnect Synthesis“, IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors, pp. 95-100, June 2008
    3. Matin Hashemi, Soheil Ghiasi, “Exact and Approximate Task Assignment Algorithms for Pipelined Software Synthesis“, IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 746-751, March 2008

2007

    1. Soheil Ghiasi, “Incremental Component Implementation Selection: Enabling ECO in Compositional System Synthesis“, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 131-134, November 2007
    2. Po-Kuan Huang, Matin Hashemi, Soheil Ghiasi, “Joint Throughput and Energy Optimization for Pipelined Execution of Embedded Streaming Applications“, ACM Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), pp. 137-139, June 2007
    3. Roozbeh Jafari, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Medical Embedded Systems“, International Embedded Systems Symposium, pp. 441-444, May 2007
    4. Po-Kuan Huang, Soheil Ghiasi, “Efficient and Scalable Compiler-Directed Energy Optimization for Realtime Applications“, IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 785-790, April 2007

2006

    1. Po-Kuan Huang, Soheil Ghiasi, “Leakage-­Aware Intraprogram Voltage Scaling for Embedded Processors“, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 364-369, July 2006
    2. Soheil Ghiasi, “Improved Threshold Voltage Assignment via Combinatorial Implementation Selection“, IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Logic and Synthesis (IWLS), pp. 94-101, June 2006
    3. Alessandro Bissacco, Soheil Ghiasi, Stefano Soatto, “Fast Visual Feature Selection and Tracking in a Hybrid Reconfigurable Architecture“, Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (ACV), May 2006
    4. Taraneh Taghavi, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Routing Algorithms: Architecture Driven Rerouting Enhancement for FPGAs“, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 5443-5446, May 2006
    5. Jia Ming Mar, Alessandro Bissacco, Stefano Soatto, Soheil Ghiasi, “High Performance Feature Detection on a Reconfigurable Co-Processor“, IEEE Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), pp. 341-342, April 2006
    6. Soheil Ghiasi, Po-Kuan Huang, “Probabilistic Delay Budgeting for Soft Realtime Applications“, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality Electronics Design (ISQED), pp. 141-146, March 2006
    7. Roozbeh Jafari, Hyduke Noshadi, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Adaptive Medical Feature Extraction for Resource Constrained Distributed Embedded Systems“, IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Health Care (UbiCare), in Conjunction with IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), pp. 506-511, March 2006
    8. Po-Kuan Huang, Soheil Ghiasi, “Power-Aware Compilation for Embedded Processors with Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Adaptive Body Biasing Capabilities“, IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), pp. 943-944, March 2006

2005

    1. Soheil Ghiasi, “Effcient Implementation Selection via Time Budgeting: Complexity Analysis and Leakage Optimization Case Study“, IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 127-129, October 2005
    2. Taraneh Taghavi, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Routing Algorithms: Enhancing Routability & Enabling ECO“, ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), page 266, February 2005

      2004

    3. Soheil Ghiasi, Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Siddharth Choudhury, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “A Unified Theory of Timing Budget Management“, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 653-659, November 2004
    4. Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Soheil Ghiasi, Atsushi Takahashi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Incremental Timing Budget Management in Programmable Systems“, International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA), pp. 240-246, June 2004
    5. Taraneh Taghavai, Soheil Ghiasi, Abhishek Ranjan, Salil Raje, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Innovate or Perish: FPGA Physical Design“, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), pp. 148-155, April 2004
    6. Eren Kursun, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Transistor Level Budgeting for Power Optimization“, IEEE International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), pp. 116-121, March 2004

2003

    1. Soheil Ghiasi, Karlene Nguyen, Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “On Computation and Resource Management in Networked Embedded Systems“, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 445-451, November 2003
    2. Soheil Ghiasi, Karlene Nguyen, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Profiling Accuracy-Latency Characteristics of Collaborative Object Tracking Applications“, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 694-701, November 2003
    3. Ani Nahapetian, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Task Scheduling on Heterogeneous Resources with Heterogeneous Reconfiguration Costs“, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems, pp. 916-921, November 2003
    4. Soheil Ghiasi, Hyun J. Moon, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Improving Performance and Quality thru Hardware Reconfiguration: Potentials and Adaptive Object Tracking Case Study“, IEEE Workshop on Embedded Systems for Real-Time Multimedia (ESTIMedia), pp. 149-155, October 2003
    5. Soheil Ghiasi, Hyun J. Moon, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Collaborative and Reconfigurable Object Tracking“, International Conference on Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems and Algorithms (ERSA), pp. 13-20, June 2003
    6. Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Soheil Ghiasi, Atsushi Takahashi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Optimal Integer Delay Budgeting on Directed Acyclic Graphs“, IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 920-925, June 2003
    7. Soheil Ghiasi, Karlene Nguyen, Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Majid Sarrafzadeh,”On Computation and Resource Management in an FPGA-based Computing Environment“, ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), page 243, February 2003
    8. Ram Kumar, Soheil Ghiasi, Mani Srivastava, “Dynamic Adaptation of Networked Reconfigurable Systems“, Workshop on Software Support for Reconfigurable Systems (SSRS), February 2003
    9. Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “Optimal Reconfiguration Sequence Management“, IEEE/ACM Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASPDAC), pp. 359-365, January 2003

2002

    1. Karlene Nguyen, Gavin Yueng, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh, “A General Framework for Tracking Objects in a Multi-Camera Environment“, International Workshop on Digital and Computational Video (DCV), pp. 200-204, November 2002