SOROUSH ABBASPOUR Address: Work Address: 830 Childs Way, Suite #487 [email protected] EEB206, USC Los Angeles, CA 90089 [email protected] Los Angeles, CA 90089 (310) 699-8279 http://atrak.usc.edu/~soroush (213)740-4480

EDUCATION Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering todate University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. GPA 3.93/4.00. : Statistical Timing Analysis for CAD Tools of VLSI Circuits M.S. student in Electrical Engineering December 2004 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. GPA 4.00/4.00. B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering July 2001 Sharif Institute of Technology, Tehran, .

EXPERIENCE • Research Assistant, EE Dept., University of Southern 9/01 – todate California, Los Angeles, CA. − Statistical timing and power analysis for CAD tools − Static timing and power analysis for CAD tools • Teaching Assistant, EE Dept., University of Southern 1/05-todate California, Los Angeles, CA. Teaching assistant for EE680, “Computer-Aided Design of Digital Systems I (Physical Design)”, Instructor: Professor Melvin Breuer • Summer Internship, IBM Corp, East Fishkill, NY 5/04-8-04 Statistical timing analysis for CAD tools • Teaching Assistant, EE Dept., University of Southern 1/04-5/04 California, Los Angeles, CA. Teaching assistant for EE680, “Computer-Aided Design of Digital Systems I (Physical Design)”, Instructor: Professor Melvin Breuer • Summer Internship, Magma Design Automation Company, 5/03 – 8/03 Santa Clara, CA Static timing analysis for CAD tools • Teaching Assistant, EE Dept., University of Southern 1/03 – 5/06 California, Los Angeles, CA. − Teaching assistant for EE680, “Computer-Aided Design of Digital Systems I (Physical Design)”, − Instructor: Professor Massoud Pedram • System Design, R&D section, Kharazmi Office Machines Inc., 10/99-7/01 Tehran, Iran. • Lecturer, EE Dept., University of Iran Industries, Tehran, Iran. 10/99 – 2/01 − Probability & Statistics − General Math • Teaching Assistant, EE Dept., Sharif institute of technology, 1/00 – 6/00 Tehran, Iran. − Circuit theory II

PUBLICATONS Journal • Soroush Abbaspour, Massoud Pedram, “Gate Delay Calculation Considering the Crosstalk Capacitances," Submitted for review.

• Soroush Abbaspour, Amir H. Ajami, Massoud Pedram, and Emre Tuncer , "A threshold-based filtering algorithm for propagation delay and slew calculation of high-speed VLSI interconnects,” Submitted for review • Payam Heydari, Soroush Abbaspour and Massoud Pedram. "Interconnect energy dissipation in high-speed ULSI circuits," to appear in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications, 2004.

Conference • Soroush Abbaspour, Hanif Fatemi, and Massoud Pedram, “Block-based Statistical Non-Gaussian Interconnect Timing Analysis for Step Input,” Submitted to ICCD 2005 • Soroush Abbaspour, Hanif Fatemi, and Massoud Pedram, “VGTA: Variation- aware Gate Timing Analysis,” Submitted to ICCD 2005 • Soroush Abbaspour, Hanif Fatemi, and Massoud Pedram, ”Parameterized Block-based Non-Gaussian Statistical Gate Timing Analysis”, Submitted to ICCAD 2005 • Soroush Abbaspour, Hanif Fatemi, and Massoud Pedram, “VITA: Variation- aware Interconnect Timing Analysis,” Proc. of Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), April 2005 • Soroush Abbaspour, Massoud Pedram, “Effective Capacitance for Calculating RLC Load Effect on Gate Propagation Delay in VDSM Technologies,” to appear in ISCAS 2005 Nominated for best • Soroush Abbaspour, Amir Ajami, Massoud Pedram, Emre Tuncer, ” TFA: A paper award Threshold-Based Filtering Algorithm for Propagation Delay and Output Slew Calculation of High-Speed VLSI Interconnects,” Proc. of Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), April 2004 • Soroush Abbaspour, and Massoud Pedram, “Gate Delay Calculation Considering the Crosstalk Capacitances,” Proc. of ASPDAC 2004 • Chang Woo Kang, Soroush Abbaspour, and Massoud Pedram, “Buffer Sizing for Minimum Energy-Delay Product by Using an Approximating Polynomial,” Proc. Of Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), April 2003 Nominated for best • Soroush Abbaspour, Massoud Pedram and Payam Heydari, ”Optimizing the paper award energy-delay-ringing product in on-chip CMOS line drivers,” Proc. of International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design, March 2003 • Soroush Abbaspour and Massoud Pedram, "Calculating the effective capacitance for the RC interconnect in VDSM technologies,” Proc. of Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, January 2003 • Payam Heydari, Soroush Abbaspour and Massoud Pedram, "A comprehensive study of energy dissipation in lossy transmission lines driven by CMOS inverters," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), Orlando, Florida, May 2002 • Soroush Abbaspour, "A new idea for calculation of the N'th order root of analytical polynomials," Accepted by Bright and Intelligent Talents Research Center, March 1995. • Soroush Abbaspour, "A new method for chemical equations equivalency," Accepted by Bright and Intelligent Talents Research Center, January 1994

PATENTS • “FTAG: Fast Timing Analysis for Gates,” Pending

COMPUTER SKILLS • Design/Simulation/Layout/Synthesis: VHDL, VERILOG, HSPICE, MAGIC, IRSIM, CADENCE Synthesis tools, MATLAB, SIS • Programming: C/C++, Pascal • Platforms: UNIX, Windows XP, Windows 2000

HONORS AND AWARDS • International academic achievement award, USC, April 2005 • Gaining first place in music performance - USC international cultural night, March 2005 • International outstanding leadership award, USC, April 2004 • Recipient of travel grant from SIGDA, March 2003 • Recipient of Young Student Support Program award (YSSP), June 2002. • Gaining 2nd place in Sharif University’s mathematics competition, 1998 • Gaining the 1st place in national university entrance exam in second region of Iran, 1997 • Gaining the 3rd Place in national diploma contest in Iran, 1997 • Winning a bronze medal in national chemistry Olympiad, 1996 • Gaining the 3rd place in national computer Olympiad, 1995 • Ranked among 1% of National Physics Olympiad, 1995 • Ranked among 1% of National Mathematics Olympiad, 1995

MEMBERSHIPS IEEE, ACM/SIGDA

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Passed the exam in Spring 2005

Ph.D. Screening Exam Passed the exam in Fall 2002

Hobbies Traditional Music Sport Cinema

REFERENCES Professor Massoud Pedram [email protected] Dept. of Electrical Eng.-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

Professor Melvin Breuer [email protected] Electrical Eng.-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California