Ani Nahapetian

Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Phone: (310) 243-3386
Email: anahapetian@csudh.edu
Office Location: NSM E-109

Research Interests:

**Embedded Systems (Emphasis on Healthcare Applications)
*Reliability techniques for real-time embedded systems
*Sensor enhanced image processing
*At-home rehabilitation technology

**Reconfigurable Computing
*Approximation, online and predictive techniques for dynamic reconfigurable sensor networks
*Reconfigurable regenerative resources in sensor networks

**Lightweight Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
*Energy minimization techniques for non-convex power-speed curves for emerging technologies
*Code compression techniques for lightweight embedded systems

**Image Processing
*Software and Embedded Solutions to Artwork Managment, Processing, and Restoration
*Sensor enhanced image processing for extending in-home care of the elderly

Embedded System, Sensor Networks, Computer Aided Design, Hardware Security, Image Processing

Highest degree obtained: Ph.D.

Discipline: Computer Science

Institution/Year: UCLA

Thesis Title/Director: Majid Sarrafzadeh

Master's Degree:

Discipline: Computer Science

Institution/Year: UCLA

Thesis title/director: Majid Sarrafzadeh

Bachelor's Degree:

Discipline: Computer Science and Engineering

Institution/Year: UCLA

Positions since highest degree earned:

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, CSUDH

Awards and Recognitions:

*Serving on the SPL 2008 program committee
*GANN Fellowship, Fall 2002 – Spring 2007
*2004 recipient of the UCLA School of Engineering's Rice Outstanding Master's Student Award

Publications:

Journal Papers and Book Chapter
J1. "Reconfigurable Fabric Vest for Fatal Heart Disease Prevention”
Roozbeh Jafari, Foad Dabiri, Philip Brisk, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh,
Journal of Embedded Computing (JEC), To Appear

J2. "An Efficient Placement and Routing Technique for Fault-tolerant Distributed Embedded Computing"
Roozbeh Jafari, Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh,
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), To Appear

J3. “Reconfiguration in Network of Embedded Systems: Challenges and Adaptive Tracking Case Study”
Soheil Ghiasi, Ani Nahapetian, Hyun J. Moon, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Journal of Embedded Computing (JEC) Vol. 1, No 1, pp. 147-166, 2005

J4. “Collaborative and Reconfigurable Object Tracking”
Soheil Ghiasi, Hyun J. Moon, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Kluwer Journal of Supercomputing Vol. 30, No 3, pp. 213-238, December 2004

J5. “An Optimal Algorithm for Minimizing Runtime Reconfiguration Delay”
Soheil Ghiasi, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) Vol. 3, No 2, pp. 237-256, May 2004

J6. “Lightweight Embedded Systems"
Foad Dabiri, Roozbeh Jafari, Tammara Massey, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
[Book Chapter] Computer Engineering Handbook, Edited by Vojin Oklobdzija, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, To appear

Js7. “Optimization for Real-Time Systems with Non-Convex Power-Speed Models”
Ani Nahapetian, Miodrag Potkonjak, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Under Submission

Js8. “Makespan Minimization for Heterogeneous Reconfigurable Resources"
Ani Nahapetian, Philip Brisk, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Under Submission

Conference and Workshop Papers
C1. “Optimization for Real-Time Systems with Non-Convex Power-Speed Models”
Ani Nahapetian, Foad Dabiri, Miodrag Potkonjak, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS), September 2007

C2. “Soft Error-Aware Power Optimization using Gate Sizing”
Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Miodrag Potkonjak, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling, Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS), September 2007

C3. "Wireless Body Sensor Enhanced Tracking for Extended In-Home Care"
Ani Nahapetian, Sabah Chaudhry, Foad Dabiri, Tammara Massey, Hyduke Noshadi, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks for Health Care (WSNHC), June 2007

C4. "Dynamic Reconfiguration in Sensor Networks with Regenerative Energy Sources"
Ani Nahapetian, Paolo Lombardo, Andrea Acquaviva, Luca Benini, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Design Automation and Test Europe (DATE), April 2007 (talk slides)

C5. "A Unified Optimal Voltage Selection Methodology for Low-power Systems"
Foad Dabiri, Roozbeh Jafari, Ani Nahapetian,Majid Sarrafzadeh
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), March 2007

C6. "System Level Estimation of Interconnect Length in the Presence of IP Blocks"
Taraneh Taghavi, Ani Nahapetian,Majid Sarrafzadeh
International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), March 2007

C7. "Congestion Prediction"
Taraneh Taghavi, Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Workshop on System Level Interconnect Prediction (SLIP), March 2007

C8. “Low Power Lightweight Embedded Systems”
Majid Sarrafzadeh, Foad Dabiri, Roozbeh Jafari, Tammara Massey, Ani Nahapetian
International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), October 2006

C9. “General Delay Budgeting on Directed Acyclic Graphs with Applications in CAD”
Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 27, pp. 95-96, 2006

C10. “Energy Minimization and Reliability for Wearable Medical Applications”
Ani Nahapetian, Foad Dabiri, Majid Sarrafzadeh
International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), August 2006

C11. “A Dictionary Construction Technique for Code Compression Systems with Echo Instructions”
Philip Brisk, Jamie Macbeth, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), June 2005

C12. “Instruction Selection for Compilers that Target Architectures with Echo Instructions”
Philip Brisk, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems (SCOPES), September 2004 (talk slides)

C13. “Task Scheduling on Heterogeneous Resources with Heterogeneous Reconfiguration Costs”
Ani Nahapetian, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS): Special Session on Synthesis for Programmable System, November 2003

Photographs
A photograph that I have taken has been published in Taken By Surprise by Ann Cooper Albright and David Gere.

Presentations:

P1. “Dynamic Reconfiguration in Sensor Networks with Regenerative Energy Sources”
Ani Nahapetian, Paolo Lombardi, Andrea Acquaviva, Luca Benini, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Design Automation and Test Europe (DATE), April 2007

P2. “General Delay Budgeting on Directed Acyclic Graphs with Applications in CAD”
Foad Dabiri, Ani Nahapetian, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Optimal Discrete Structures and Algorithms (ODSA), September 2006

P3. “Task Scheduling on Heterogeneous Resources with Heterogeneous Reconfiguration Costs”
Ani Nahapetian, Soheil Ghiasi, Majid Sarrafzadeh
Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS): Special Session on Synthesis for Programmable System, November 2003

Additional Information:

website: http://www.csc.csudh.edu/ani

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