Publication

[1]P. Behnam*, U. Kamal*, S. Vijay Ganesh, Zh. Li, M. Jurado, A. Khare, I. Fedorov, G. Liu, A. Tumanov, "∇QDARTS: Quantization as an Elastic Dimension to Differentiable NAS," Transactions in Machine Learning Research, (TMLR), 2025.

[2]A. Khare, A. Agrawal, A. Annavajjala, P. Behnam, H. Latapie, M. Lee, A. Tumanov "SuperFedNAS: Cost-Efficient Federated Neural Architecture Search for On-Device Inference ," 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Italy, 2024.

[3] P. Behnam*, J. Tong*, A. Khare, Y. Chen, P. Gadikar, A. Bambhaniya, T. Krishna, A. Tumanov, "Hardware-Software Co-design for Real-time Latency-accuracy Navigation in TinyML Applications," In IEEE Micro Special Issue on Tiny ML, 2023. [*co-first authors]

[4] P. Behnam*, J. Tong*, A. Khare, Y. Chen, P. Gadikar, A. Bambhaniya, T. Krishna, A. Tumanov, "SUbgraph Stationary Hardware-software Inference Co-design," Sixth Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys), USA, 2023. [*co-first authors]

[5] P. Behnam*, G. Yuan*, Y. Cai, A. Shafiee, J. Fu, Z. Liao, Z. Li, X. Ma, J. Deng, J. Wang, M. Bojnordi, Y. Wang, and C. Ding, "TinyADC: Peripheral Circuit-aware Weight Pruning Framework for Mixed-signal DNN Accelerators," 27'th Annual Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2021. [*co-first authors](Best Paper Candidate)

[6] P. Behnam and M.Bojnordi, "A potential replacement for IEEE-754," ACM SIGARCH Blog Article, 2020.

[7] S. Taheri,  P. Behnam, E. Bozorgzadeh, A. Veidenbaum, and A. Nicolau, “AFFIX: Automatic Acceleration Framework for FPGA Implementation of OpenVX Vision Algorithm,” 27’th ACM International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), USA, 2019.

[8] S. Taheri, J. Heo, P. Behnam, J. Chen, A. Veidenbaum, and A. Nicolau, “Acceleration Framework for FPGA Implementation of OpenVX Graph Pipelines,” 26’th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), USA, 2018.

[1] P. Behnam, U. Kamal, A. Shafiee, A. Tumanov, S. Mukhopadhyay,  "Harmonica: Hybrid Accelerator to Overcome Imperfections of Mixed-signal DNN Accelerators," 38'th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), USA, 2024.

[2] P. Behnam*, Y. Luo*, K. Thorat, Z. Liu, H. Peng, Sh. Huang, Sh. Zhou, O. Khan, A. Tumanov, C. Ding, and T. Geng, "CoDG-ReRAM: An Algorithm-Hardware Co-design to Accelerate Semi-Structured GNNs on ReRAM," 40'th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), USA, 2022. [*co-first authors]

[3] P. Behnam*, G. Yuan*, Z. Li, A. Shafiee, S. Lin, X. Ma, H. Liu, X. Qian, M. Bojnordi, Y. Wang, C. Ding, "FORMS: Fine-grained Polarized ReRAM-based In-situ Computation for Mixed-signal DNN Accelerator," 46th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2021. [*co-first authors]

[4] Y. Rupesh, P. Behnam, G.Pandla, M. Miryala, and M. Bojnord, “Accelerating k-Medians Clustering Using a Novel 4T-4R RRAM Cell,” in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems (TVLSI), 2018.

[5] P. Behnam*, E. Nikahd*, and R. Sameni, “High-Speed Hardware Implementation of Fixed and Run-time Variable Window Length 1-D Median Filters,” in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), 2016. [*co-first authors]

[1] X, Mao*, M. Mukherjee*, N. M. Rahman*, C. DeLude*, J. Driscoll*, S. Sharma, P. Behnam, U. Kamal, D. Kim, S. Khan, J. Tong, J. Woo, J. Seo, P. Sinha, S. Pande, T. Krishna, M. Swaminathan, J. Romberg, and S. Mukhopadhyay, “Real-time Digital RF Emulation – II: A Near Memory Custom Accelerator,” IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, 2024.

[2] M. Mukherjee, N. M. Rahman, C. DeLude, J. Driscoll, U. Kamal, J. Woo, J. Seo, S. Sharma, X. Mao, P. Behnam, S. Khan, D. Kim, J. Tong, P. Sinha, S. Pande, T. Krishna, J. Romberg, M. Swaminathan, and S. Mukhopadhyay, “A High-Performance Computing Architecture for Real-Time Digital Emulation of RF Interactions,” IEEE Radar Conference (RaderConf), USA, 2023.

[3] X. Mao, M. Mukherjee, N.M. Rahman, U. Kamal, S. Sharma, P. Behnam, J. Tong, J. Driscoll, T. Krishna, J. Romberg, and S. Mukhopadhyay, “FPGA-Based High-Performance Real-Time Emulation of Radar System using Direct Path Compute Model,” International Microwave Symposium (IMS), USA, 2023.

[4] M. Mukherjee, N. M. Rahman, S. Sharma, U. Kamal, X. Mao, P. Behnam, D. Kim, J. Tong, J. Woo, P. Sinha, C. Delude, J. Driscoll, J. Seo, S. Pande, T. Krishna, J. Romberg, M. Swaminathan, and S. Mukhopadhyay, “A Near-Memory Accelerator for Real-Time Emulation of RF Interactions,” GomacTech, USA, 2023, (Les Palukti Best Student Poster Paper Award)

[1] P. Behnam and M. Bojnordi, “Adaptively Reduced DRAM Caching for Energy-Efficient High Bandwidth Memory,” IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC), 2022.

[2] B. Khodabandeloo, A. Khonsari, P. Behnam, A. Majidi, and M. H. Hajiesmaili, “Stereo: Assignment and Scheduling in MPSoC under Process Variation by Combining Stochastic and Decomposition Approaches,” IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC), 2022.

[3]P. Behnam and M. Bojnordi, “RedCache: Reduced DRAM Caching,” 57’th IEEE International Conference on Design Automation Conference (DAC), USA, 2020.

[4] P. Behnam and M. Bojnordi, “STFL-DDR: Improving the Energy-Efficiency of Memory Interface,”  IEEE Transaction on Computers (TC), 2020. (Featured Paper of the Month)

[5] P. Behnam and M. Bojnordi, “STFL: Energy-Efficient Cache Interface using Slow Transition Fast Level Signaling,” 56’th IEEE International Conference on Design Automation Conference (DAC), USA, 2019.

[6] P. Behnam and M.Bojnordi, "Optical Memory Systems," ACM SIGARCHBlog Article, 2019.

[7] P. Behnam, A. Chowdhury, N. Rauniyar, N. Sedaghati, and M. Bojnordi, “XCache: Energy- Efficient In-Package Cache Architecture using 3D-stacked Memeristive Crosspoint,” 55’t ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference, Work-in-Progress Session(DAC-WIP), USA, 2018.

[8] P. Behnam, A. Chowdhury, and M. Bojnordi, “R-Cache: A Highly Set-Associative In-Package Cache using Memristive Arrays,” 36’th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), USA, 2018.

[9] P. Behnam, N.Sedaghati, and M. Bojnordi, “Adaptive Time-based Encoding for Energy-Efficient Large Cache Architectures,” 5’th ACM Workshop on Energy Efficient Supercomputing held in conjunction with SC (E2SC), USA, 2017.

[10] P. Behnam, S. Taheri, and B. Alizadeh, “Improving Thermal-aware Placement and Routing in 3D FPGAs,” 10’th International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), Mexico, 2015 (Accepted).

[1] P. Behnam, “ Validation of Hardware Security and Trust: A Survey,” arXiv: 801.00649, 2018.

[2] P. Behnam, B. Alizadeh, S. Taheri, “Automated Formal Equivalence Verification of Pipelined Nested Loops in Datapath Designs,” arXiv: 1712.09818, 2017.

[3] P. Behnam, B. Alizadeh, S.Taheri, and M. Fujita, “Formally Analyzing Fault Tolerance in Datapath Designs Using Equivalence Checking,” 21’ st IEEE Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), Macao, China, 2016.

[4] B. Alizadeh, P. Behnam, and S. Sadeghi Kohan, “A Scalable Formal Debugging Approach with Auto-Correction Capability based on Static Slicing and Dynamic Ranking for RTL Datapath Designs,” in IEEE Trans. on Computers (TC), 2015.

[5] P. Behnam, and B. Alizadeh, “In-circuit Mutation-based Automatic Correction of Certain Design Errors Using SAT Mechanisms,” 24’th IEEE Asian Test Symposium (ATS), India, 2015.

[6] P. Behnam, B. Alizadeh, and Z. Navabi, “Automatic Correction of Certain Design Errors Using Mutation Technique,” 19’th IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Germany, 2014.

[7] S. Sadeghi, P. Behnam, B. Alizadeh, M. Fujita, and Z. Navabi, “Improving Polynomial Datapath Debugging with HEDs,”19’th IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Germany, 2014.

[8] H. Haghbayan, B. Alizadeh, P. Behnam, and S. Safari, “Formal Verification and Debugging of Array Dividers With Auto-correction Mechanism,” 27’th IEEE VLSI Design Conference (VLSID), India, 2014.

[9] B. Alizadeh, and P. Behnam, “Formal Equivalence Verification and Debugging Techniques with Auto-Correction Mechanism for RTL Designs,” in Elsevier Microprocessor and Microsystems - Embedded Hardware Design (MICPRO), 2013.

[1] F. Zokaee, H. Sabaghian-Bidgoli, V. Janfaza, P. Behnam, and Z. Navabi, “ A novel SAT-based ATPG approach for transition delay faults,” 19’th IEEE International High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop (HLDVT), USA, 2017.

[2] H. Sabaghian-Bidgoli, P. Behnam, B. Alizadeh, and Z.Navabi, “Reducing Search Space for Fault Diagnosis: A Probability-Based Scoring Approach,” 15’th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Germany, 2017.

[3] V. Janfaza, P. Behnam, B. Forouzandeh, B. Alizadeh, “A Low-power Enhanced Bitmask-dictionary Scheme for Test Data Compression,” 12’th IEEE Symposium on Very Large Scale Integration (ISVLSI), USA, 2014.

[4] P. Behnam, S. Sabaghian-Bidgoli, B. Alizadeh, K. Mohajerani, and Z. Navabi, “A Probabilistic Approach for Counterexample Generation to Aid Design Debugging,” 11’th IEEE East-West Design and Test Symposium (EWDTS), Russia, 2013.

[5] V. Janfaza, B. Forouzandeh, P. Behnam, and M. Najafi, “ Hybrid History-based Test Overlapping to Reduce Test Application Time,” 11’th IEEE East-West Design and Test Symposium (EWDTS), Russia, 2013.

Patent

P. Behnam, M. Montaseri, and Sh. Jafari, “Automatic Informant System for Doorbell by Telephone Call“, Iran Patent 64803. Approved by Intellectual Property (IP) Organization, Shiraz-Branch, Iran.