Mohammad Shahrad

I am a senior Ph.D. candidate in Princeton's Department of Electrical Engineering, and a member of the Princeton Parallel Research Group advised by Professor David Wentzlaff. At the confluence of architecture and systems, my research focuses on building more efficient large-scale computing systems. I am an enthusiastic, hands-on researcher with experience in multiple layers of abstraction, from circuits to large-scale cloud systems.

Experience

Microsoft Research Lab, Montréal, Canada (Summer 2019)
Research Intern (Redmond Cloud Efficiency team affiliate)

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Research Assistant, Princeton Parallel Research Group

Microsoft Research Lab, Redmond, WA (Spring 2018)
Research Intern, Systems Research Group

Microsoft Research Lab, Redmond, WA (Fall 2017)
Research Intern, Systems Research Group

EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Summer 2013)
Research Intern, Processor Architecture Laboratory (LAP)

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (Ongoing)
Princeton University, Princeton
Advisor: Prof. David Wentzlaff

M.A., Electrical Engineering (2014-2016)
Princeton University, Princeton
Advisor: Prof. David Wentzlaff

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (2010-2014)
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
Advisor: Prof. Mahdi Shabany. 1^st rank of class of 2014 in Digital Systems major.

Publications

Tags -> 👶🏻: undergrad research, 👨🏻‍🎓: highly related to my thesis, 📰: received major press coverage

Conference Proceedings

1. Burstable Instances for Clouds: Performance Modeling, Equilibrium Analysis, and Revenue Maximization👨🏻‍🎓  
   Y. Jiang, M. Shahrad, D. Wentzlaff, D. Tsang, and C. Joe-Wong
   IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM '19)
2. Power and Energy Characterization of an Open Source 25-core Manycore Processor   
   M. McKeown, A. Lavrov, M. Shahrad, P. Jackson, Y. Fu, J. Balkind, T. Nguyen, K. Lim, Y. Zhou, and D. Wentzlaff
   24th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA '18)
3. Incentivizing Self-Capping to Increase Cloud Utilization👨🏻‍🎓  
   M. Shahrad, C. Klein, L. Zheng, M. Chiang, E. Elmroth, and D. Wentzlaff
   8th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC '17)
4. Symmetric Split-Row LDPC Decoders 👶🏻
   M. Shahrad and M. Shabany
   2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '17)
5. Availability Knob: Flexible User-Defined Availability in the Cloud👨🏻‍🎓  
   M. Shahrad and D. Wentzlaff
   7th ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC '16)
6. Piton: A 25-core Academic Manycore Processor 📰
   M. McKeown, Y. Fu, T. Nguyen, Y. Zhou, J. Balkind, A. Lavrov, M. Shahrad, S. Payne, and D. Wentzlaff
   2016 IEEE Hot Chips 28 Symposium (HCS)
7. OpenPiton: An Open Source Manycore Research Framework  
   J. Balkind, M. McKeown, Y. Fu, T. Nguyen, Y. Zhou, A. Lavrov, M. Shahrad, A. Fuchs, S. Payne, X. Liang, M. Matl, and D. Wentzlaff
   21st International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS '16)
8. TTCN: A New Approach for Low-Power Split-Row LDPC Decoders👶🏻  
   M. Shahrad and M. Shabany
   2015 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '15)

Workshop & Journal Papers

1. OpenPiton: An Emerging Standard for Open-Source EDA Tool Development
   J. Balkind, A. Lavrov, M. McKeown, Y. Fu, T. Nguyen, M. Shahrad, et al.
   2018 Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology (WOSET '18)
2. Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on Hard Disk Drives 📰     
   M. Shahrad, A. Mosenia, L. Song, M. Chiang, D. Wentzlaff, and P. Mittal
   2018 ACM CCS Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security (CCS ASHES '18)
3. Towards Deploying Decommissioned Mobile Devices as Cheap Energy-Efficient Compute Nodes 📰  
   M. Shahrad and D. Wentzlaff
   9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '17)
4. Piton: A Manycore Processor for Multi-Tenant Clouds
   M. McKeown, Y. Fu, T. Nguyen, Y. Zhou, J. Balkind, A. Lavrov, M. Shahrad, S. Payne, and D. Wentzlaff
   IEEE Micro, March/April 2017
5. Designing a Complex 25-Core Academic Processor
   D. Wentzlaff, M. Mckeown, Y. Fu, T. Nguyen, Y. Zhou, J. Balkind, A. Lavrov, M. Shahrad, and S. Payne
   2015 6th Workshop on Architectural Research Prototyping (WARP), Portland

Selected Press Coverage on Research

Invited Talks

• Improving the Efficiency of Public Clouds through Enhanced Service Flexibility [1/24/19]
  Systems Seminar, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada
• Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining [1/22/19]
  Department of Computer and Software Engineering (GIGL), École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
• Improving the Efficiency of Cloud Systems through Enhanced Service Flexibility [9/13/18]
  Graduate Student Seminar Series, Center for Networked Computing (CNC), Temple University, PA
• Provisioning Flexible Availability in IaaS Clouds [12/8/16]
  NEC Laboratories America, NJ

Services

Journal Reviewer [verified Publons records]
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Springer Cluster Computing Journal Springer Journal of Grid Computing						Elsevier Parallel Computing Journal IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (II)
Program Committee Member
ACM EuroSys '19 - Shadow PC Member						ACM IMC '18 - Shadow PC Member
Conference Reviewer
IEEE ISCAS '17						IEEE ICECS '13