Dr Morteza Biglari-Abhari

Senior Lecturer

In: Department of Electrical, Computer and Software 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: 3 PhD (main supervisor), 4 PhD (co-supervisor), 13 ME (main supervisor)

Current students: 3 PhD

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
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/41170
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Andrew Chen, Kevin I-Kai Wang
Chen, A. T. Y., Biglari-Abhari, M., & Wang, K. I. K. (2018). SuperBE: computationally light background estimation with superpixels. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 1-17. 10.1007/s11554-018-0750-7
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Kevin I-Kai Wang, Andrew Chen
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
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/42762
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Zoran Salcic
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)10.1145/3126553
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/42824
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Zoran Salcic
Chen, A. T. Y., Biglari-Abhari, M., & Wang, K. I. 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, USA: IEEE Xplore. 10.1109/CVPRW.2017.178
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/35459
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Andrew Chen, Kevin I-Kai Wang
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
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/35710
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Stevan Berber