Abbas Rahimi
Research Staff Member at IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Berkeley, California, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAbbas Rahimi is a research staff member at IBM Zurich with nine years of experience building ultra-low-energy, robust cognitive computing systems rooted in brain-inspired hyperdimensional computing. He completed a Ph.D. at UC San Diego and a postdoc at UC Berkeley and ETH Zürich, focusing on energy-efficient accelerators, approximate computing, and microelectronic variability. His dissertation won the 2015 EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award for new directions in embedded system design, underscoring a track record of impactful, high-quality research. Abbas bridges deep theory and hardware practice to target real-world applications from wearable cyber-biological devices to brain–machine interfaces and cybernetic security. He is affiliated with Berkeley Wireless Research Center and ETHZ’s Integrated Systems Laboratory, combining academic collaboration with industrial research. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who makes resilience and efficiency first-class citizens in constrained, massively parallel systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California San DiegoBachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at University of TehranPostdoctoral Fellow, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich
Persian, English, Italian
Github Skills (7)
numerics1
linear-algebra1
machine-learning1
blas1
manifold1
ndarray1
distributed-computing1
Github contributions (4)
abbas-rahimi/HDC-EMG
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
abbas-rahimi/HDC-Language-Recognition
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:3 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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