Dr Morteza Biglari-Abhari

Senior Lecturer

In: Electrical and Computer Engineering » Faculty of Engineering

Biography

Qualifications

MSc. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
PhD, (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Research | Current

Security Enhanced Computer Architecture
Embedded Computer Vision Systems (for autonmous vehicles and robots)
Hardware/software co-design of real-time embedded systems
Re-configurable architectures and energy-efficient multi-processor systems on chip

Research groups

Embedded Systems
Precision Time Machines (PRET)

Teaching | Current

COMPSCI 313 - Computer Organisation
COMPSYS 302 - Software Design Practice
COMPSYS 304 - Computer Architecture 1
COMPSYS 305 - Digital Systems Design 1
COMPSYS 701 - Advanced Digital Systems Design

Postgraduate supervision

Completed stduents: 2 PhD (main supervisor), 4 PhD (co-supervisor), 12 ME (main supervisor)

Current students: 6 PhD and 1 ME

Responsibilities

Director of Computer Systems Engineering Program

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Professional affiliations

Chair of IEEE New Zealand North Section (2013, 2014)
Senior Member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society Chapter

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Chen, A. T. Y., Biglari-Abhari, M., Wang, K. I. K., Bouzerdoum, A., & Tivive, F. H. C. (2018). Convolutional neural network acceleration with hardware/software co-design. Applied Intelligence, 48 (5), 1288-1301. 10.1007/s10489-017-1007-z
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Andrew Chen, Kevin I-Kai Wang
Tan, P., Biglari-Abhari, M., & Salcic, Z. (2017). Towards decentralized system-level security for MPSoC-based embedded applications. Journal of Systems Architecture, 80, 41-55. 10.1016/j.sysarc.2017.09.001
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Benjamin Tan, Zoran Salcic
Chen, A. T., Biglari-Abhari, M., & Wang, K. (2017). Trusting the Computer in Computer Vision: A Privacy-Affirming Framework. 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 1360-1367. Honolulu, Hawaii, US: IEEE Xplore. 10.1109/CVPRW.2017.178
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Andrew Chen, Kevin I-Kai Wang
Wang, B., McDaid, A., Biglari-Abhari, M., Giffney, T., & Aw, K. (2017). A bimorph pneumatic bending actuator by control of fiber braiding angle. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 257, 173-184. 10.1016/j.sna.2017.02.003
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/35550
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Tim Giffney, Kean Aw, Andrew McDaid
Wang, B., McDaid, A., Giffney, T., Biglari-Abhari, M., & Aw, K. C. (2017). Design, modelling and simulation of soft grippers using new bimorph pneumatic bending actuators. Cogent Engineering, 4 (1)10.1080/23311916.2017.1285482
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/33732
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Andrew McDaid, Tim Giffney, Kean Aw
Tan, B., Biglari-Abhari, M., & Salcic, Z. (2017). An Automated Security-Aware Approach for Design of Embedded Systems on MPSoC. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 16 (5s) Seoul, Korea: ACM. 10.1145/3126553
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Benjamin Tan, Zoran Salcic
Hemmati, M., Biglari-Abhari, M., Niar, S., & Berber, S. (2017). Real‐time multi‐scale pedestrian detection for Driver Assistance Systems. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Design Automation Conference 2017 New York, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. 10.1145/3061639.3062308
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Stevan Berber
Harvey-Lees-Green, N., Biglari-Abhari, M., Malik, A., & Salcic, Z. (2017). A dynamic memory management unit for real time systems. Proceedings of the IEEE 20th International Symposium on Real-Time Computing (ISORC-2017) Toronto, Canada. 10.1109/ISORC.2017.4
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Avinash Malik, Zoran Salcic