Massoud Pedram

Massoud Pedram was born in Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran. He came to the United States to continue his higher education in 1983. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1986 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989 and 1991, respectively. The EECS department of University of California, Berkeley, listed him as one of her distinguished alumni.{{cite web

|url=http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/alumni/distinguished.shtml

|title=Distinguished Alumni - Electrical Engineering {{!}} EECS at UC Berkeley

|accessdate=10 March 2014}}

Pedram then joined the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering in Viterbi School of Engineering of the University of Southern California, where he is currently the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor.{{cite web

|url=http://ee.usc.edu/faculty_staff/faculty_directory/pedram.htm

|title=USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering - Massoud Pedram

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}{{cite web

|url=http://about.usc.edu/faculty/named-chairs-and-professorships/

|title=Named Chairs and Professorships

|accessdate=5 March 2014}} Some of his doctoral students, including Diana Marculescu, Radu Marculescu and Payam Heydari have become notable academics.

Pedram has served on the technical program committee of a number of conferences, including the Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), and International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS). He served as the technical program chair and the general chair of the 2002 {{cite web

|url=http://www.ispd.cc/slides/ispd2002.html

|title=ISPD 2002 - Advance program

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1216330

|title=Physical design needs an overhaul, speakers say {{pipe}} EE Times

|accessdate=5 March 2014}} and 2003 {{cite web

|url=http://www.ispd.cc/slides/ispd2003.html

|title=ISPD 2003 - Final Program

|accessdate=5 March 2014}} International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) and the general chair of the 2007 International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED).{{cite book

|doi=10.1109/ISQED.2007.171

|isbn=978-0-7695-2795-6

|chapter=Welcome Notes

|title=8th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED'07)

|pages=xvii-xviii

|year=2007

|s2cid=227275413

}} He served as the inaugural editor-in-chief (EiC) of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS).{{cite journal

|title= Inaugural Editorial

|doi= 10.1109/JETCAS.2011.2144490

|bibcode= 2011IJEST...1....1P

|last1= Pedram

|first1= Massoud

|last2= Delgado-Restituto

|first2= Manuel

|last3= Macii

|first3= Enrico

|last4= Setti

|first4= Gianluca

|journal= IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

|volume= 1

|issue= 1

|pages= 1

|year= 2011

}} He also served as the EiC of the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES).{{cite web

|url=http://todaes.acm.org/board.html

|title= ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}

Pedram served as the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Vice President (Publications) in 2006.{{cite web

|url=http://ieee-cas.org/officer-history

|title= Officer History {{!}} IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

|accessdate=12 March 2014}}

Pedram co-founded and served as the general co-chair of the first ACM International Workshop on Low Power Design in 1994.{{cite journal

|doi=10.1145/190665.190668

|title=1994 International Workshop on Low Power Design

|year=1994

|last1=Pedram|first1=Massoud

|last2=Preas|first2=Bryan

|journal=ACM SIGDA Newsletter

|volume=24|issue=1–2|pages=40–46|s2cid=11794910

|doi-access=free}} When this workshop merged with the IEEE Workshop on Low Power Electronics in 1996, Pedram served as a co-founder and the technical co-chair of the first International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED).{{cite journal

|title=Low Power Electronics and Design, 1996., International Symposium on

|doi=10.1109/LPE.1996.542722

}}

Pedram has been on the advisory board of several companies, including Atrenta Inc.,{{cite web

|title=Atrenta TAB: Technical Advisory Board Atrenta

|url=http://www.atrenta.com/company/technical-advisory-board.htm5

|accessdate=6 February 2015}} Envis Corp,{{cite web

|title=Envis Corporation Adds Professors Brayton and Pedram To Its Technical Advisory Board

|website=Reuters

|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2008/08/14/idUS112904+14-Aug-2008+BW20080814

|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140310095925/http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/08/14/idUS112904+14-Aug-2008+BW20080814

|url-status=dead

|archive-date=10 March 2014

|accessdate=7 March 2014}} and Magma Design Automation.{{cite web

|title=Founder of Ambit and LogicVision Launches Magma Design Automation, Inc.; Start-Up to Deliver Physical Design Automation Technology for Next-Generation Chips. -Free Online Library

|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Founder+of+Ambit+and+LogicVision+Launches+Magma+Design+Automation,...-a019792553

|accessdate=10 March 2014}}

Pedram's awards and recognition have included:

• US National Science Foundation's Research Initiation Award (RIA) in 1992 {{cite web

|title=NSF Award Search: Award#9211668 - RIA: Combined Logic Synthesis and Physical Design

|url=http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9211668&HistoricalAwards=false

|accessdate=8 March 2014}}

• Young Investigator Award (NYI) in 1994 {{cite web

|title=NSF Award Search: Award#9457392 - NSF Young Investigator: Low Power VLSI Design

|url=http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9457392&HistoricalAwards=false

|accessdate=8 March 2014}}{{cite web

|title=Summary of Awards- Fiscal Year 1996

|url=https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1997/nsf97144/nsf97144.pdf

|accessdate=8 March 2014}}

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1996 {{cite web

|url=http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9628999&HistoricalAwards=false

|title=NSF Award Search: Award#9628999 - Presidential Faculty Fellows/Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PFF/PECASE): Power Estimation and Optimization in IC Design

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}{{cite web

|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=101827

|title=Twenty NSF-Nominated Scientists and Engineers Receive Top Presidential Honor

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}{{cite web

|url=http://viterbi.usc.edu/academics/awards/nsf_awards.htm

|title=National Science Foundation Early Career Awards

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}

• IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the theory and practice of low-power design and CAD" since 2001 {{cite web

|url=http://www.dac.com/DACArchive/awards/38award.pdf

|title=38th DAC Awards

|accessdate=5 March 2014

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405010016/http://www.dac.com/DACArchive/awards/38award.pdf

|archive-date=5 April 2012

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}}

• ACM Distinguished Scientist since 2008 {{cite web

|url=http://awards.acm.org/distinguished_member/year.cfm

|title=ACM Distinguished Member

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}

• IEEE CAS Charles A. Desoer Technical Achievement Award "for contributions to modeling and design of low power VLSI circuits and systems, and energy efficient computing" in 2015 {{cite web

|url=http://cassnewsletter.org/Volume9-Issue3/Recognitions.html

|title=IEEE CAS Recognitions

|accessdate=20 August 2015}}

Additionally, Pedram was an ACM Distinguished Speaker.{{cite web

|url=http://dsp.acm.org/lectures.cfm

|title=ACM Distinguished Speakers Program :: All Lectures

|accessdate=31 August 2015}} He has been granted 10 US patents.{{cite web

|url=https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ininventor:Massoud+ininventor:Pedram#hl=en&q=ininventor%3A%22Massoud+Pedram%22&tbm=pts

|title=Google Advanced Patent Search

|accessdate=5 March 2014}} He was one of ten principal investigators from academia in the United States who were selected by DARPA to fund for the [http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/MTO/Programs/Power_Efficiency_Revolution_for_Embedded_Computing_Technologies_%28PERFECT%29.aspx Power Efficiency Revolution for Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT)] program.{{cite news

|url=http://dailytrojan.com/2013/04/29/darpa-to-fund-prof-research/

|title=DARPA to fund prof research {{pipe}} Daily Trojan

|newspaper=Daily Trojan

|date=30 April 2013

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.isi.edu/news/story/428068

|title=Information Sciences Institute - USC Viterbi Leads the Way at the DARPA "Perfect Program"

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}

Pedram has published four books, 13 book chapters, and more than 560 journal and conference papers.{{cite web |title=Publications for Prof. Pedram |url=http://sportlab.usc.edu/~massoud/publications |accessdate=5 March 2014}} According to Google Scholar,{{cite web

|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FHiQmOoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

|title= Massoud Pedram - Google Scholar Citations

|accessdate=5 March 2014}} his research have been cited more than 17,800 times till 2015. His publications have received a number of awards including two DAC Best Paper Awards,{{cite web

|url=http://www2.dac.com/lib/PDFs/33award.pdf

|title= The 33rd Design Automation Conference - Best Paper Awards

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.dac.com/DACArchive/awards/42bestpaper.pdf

|title=The 42nd Design Automation Conference - Best Paper Awards

|accessdate=5 March 2014

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403011438/http://www.dac.com/DACArchive/awards/42bestpaper.pdf

|archive-date=3 April 2012

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}} a Distinguished Paper Citation from ICCAD, three ICCD Best Paper Awards, two IEEE Transactions Best Paper Awards,{{cite web

|url=http://cassnewsletter.org/Volume2-Issue1/CAS%20Society%20Awards.html

|title=CAS Society Awards

|accessdate=5 March 2014}}{{cite web

|url=http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/vlsi-transactions-best-paper-award

|title=VLSI Transactions – Best Paper Award {{pipe}} IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

|accessdate=6 March 2014

|url-status=dead

|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314114453/http://ieee-cas.org/about/awards/vlsi-transactions-best-paper-award

|archivedate=14 March 2016

}} and an ISLPED best paper award.{{cite web

|url=http://islped.org/2014/files/final_program.pdf

|title= ISLPED 2014- Conference Program

|accessdate=20 August 2014}} At the 50th anniversary of the Design Automation Conference held in 2013, Pedram was recognized as one of the four DAC Prolific Authors (with 50+ papers) and the DAC Bronze Cited Author.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dac.com/50th+anniversary+banquet.aspx

|title=DAC - DAC 2013 - 50th Celebration Events - 50th Anniversary Banquet

|accessdate=12 March 2014}}

• {{cite book |editor1-last= Pedram |editor1-first= Massoud |editor2-first= Jan |editor2-last=Rabaey |title= Power Aware Design Methodologies |date=June 2002 |publisher=Springer Press|url=https://www.springer.com/engineering/circuits+%26+systems/book/978-1-4020-7152-2 |isbn=978-1402071522 |pages=521}}
• {{cite book |last1= Chang |first1= Jui-Ming |first2= Massoud |last2=Pedram |title= Power Optimization and Synthesis at Behavioral and System Levels Using Formal Methods |date=June 1999 |publisher=Springer Press|url=https://www.springer.com/engineering/circuits+%26+systems/book/978-0-7923-8560-8 |isbn=978-1461373681 |pages=167}}
• {{cite book |last1= Iman |first1= Sasan |first2= Massoud |last2=Pedram |title= Logic Synthesis for Low Power VLSI Designs |date=November 1997 |publisher=Springer Press|url=https://www.springer.com/engineering/circuits+%26+systems/book/978-0-7923-8076-4 |isbn=978-0792380764 |pages=236}}
• {{cite book |last1= Rabaey |first1= Jan |first2= Massoud |last2=Pedram |title= Low Power Design Methodologies |date=November 1995|publisher=Springer Press|url=https://www.springer.com/engineering/circuits+%26+systems/book/978-0-7923-9630-7 |isbn=978-0792396307 |pages=367}}

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