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UBAID BAKHTIAR

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ubaidb@umd.edu
Office: IRB 3256

I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am a part of Computer Architecture and Systems Lab (CASL) and is working under the supervision of Dr. Bahar Asgari. My research focuses on optimizing resource utilization in sparse applications to accelerate the throughput and latency in various computing architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. I secured my bechelors in Electrical Engineering from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in May, 2022.

Research Interests

  • Computer Architecture
  • Domain Specific Architecture
  • Scientific Computing Accelerators
  • Near Memmory Processing
  • Heterogenous Computing

Projects

img Acamar: A Dynamically Reconfigurable Scientific Computing Accelerator for Robust Convergence and Minimal Resource Underutilization

Publications

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Education

  • Ph.D Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland-College Park (2022-)
  • BS Electrical Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan (2018-22)

Academic Appointments

  • Graduate Research Assistant, CASL, University of Maryland-College Park
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Advance Digital Computer Design, University of Maryland-College Park (Fall 2023)
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Advance Digital Computer Design, University of Maryland-College Park (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
  • Teaching Assistant Feedback Control Systems, LUMS (Spring 2022)
  • Teaching Assistant Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, LUMS (Fall 2021)
  • Teaching Assistant Engineering Models, LUMS (Fall 2021)
  • Teaching Assistant Circuits-II, LUMS (Spring 2021)

Awards & Honors

  • Student Travel Grant, ACM/IEEE 57th International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO 2024)
  • Summer Research Fellowship, University of Maryland-College Park (Summer 2023)
  • Dean's Honor List Award, LUMS (2019-20)

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  • Office: IRB 3256
  • Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering
  • 8125 Paint Branch Drive, College Park MD 20742