| 2026 | DATE | INSPIRE: In-Sensor Compressed Weight Retrieval for Enhancing ViT Efficiency at Edge. | Sabbir Ahmed, Deniz Najafi, Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Navid Khoshavi, Abdullah Al Arafat, Mamshad Nayeem Rizve, Mahdi Nikdast, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Shaahin Angizi |
| 2025 | ASPDAC | Invited paper: Bridging EDA and Silicon Photonics Design: Enabling Robust-by-Design Photonic Integrated Circuits. | Zahra Ghanaatian, Asif Mirza, Amin Shafiee, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2025 | ICCAD | Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics. | Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi, Sreetama Sarkar, Pietro Mercati, Navid Khoshavi, Peter A. Beerel, Mahdi Nikdast, Gourav Datta, Shaahin Angizi |
| 2024 | DAC | Lightator: An Optical Near-Sensor Accelerator with Compressive Acquisition Enabling Versatile Image Processing. | Mehrdad Morsali, Brendan Reidy, Deniz Najafi, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Ramtin Zand, Shaahin Angizi |
| 2024 | DATE | Accelerating Neural Networks for Large Language Models and Graph Processing with Silicon Photonics. | Salma Afifi, Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha |
| 2024 | DATE | OISA: Architecting an Optical In-Sensor Accelerator for Efficient Visual Computing. | Mehrdad Morsali, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Deniz Najafi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi |
| 2024 | DATE | COMET: A Cross-Layer Optimized Optical Phase-Change Main Memory Architecture. | Febin Sunny, Amin Shafiee, Benot Charbonnier, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha |
| 2024 | ICCAD | Shedding Light on LLMs: Harnessing Photonic Neural Networks for Accelerating LLMs. | Mahdi Nikdast, Salma Afifi, Sudeep Pasricha |
| 2024 | VTS | Silicon Photonic 2.5D Interposer Networks for Overcoming Communication Bottlenecks in Scale-out Machine Learning Hardware Accelerators. | Febin Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha |
| 2023 | DATE | Machine Learning Accelerators in 2.5D Chiplet Platforms with Silicon Photonics. | Febin Sunny, Ebadollah Taheri, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha |
| 2023 | MICRO | TRINE: A Tree-Based Silicon Photonic Interposer Network for Energy-Efficient 2.5D Machine Learning Acceleration. | Ebadollah Taheri, Mohammad Amin Mahdian, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2023 | SC | RISA: Round-Robin Intra-Rack Friendly Scheduling Algorithm for Disaggregated Datacenters. | Rashadul Kabir, Ryan Gary Kim, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2023 | RSP | SerIOS: Enhancing Hardware Security in Integrated Optoelectronic Systems. | Felipe G. Magalhaes, Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu |
| 2022 | ASPDAC | SONIC: A Sparse Neural Network Inference Accelerator with Silicon Photonics for Energy-Efficient Deep Learning. | Febin Sunny, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha |
| 2022 | DATE | DeFT: A Deadlock-Free and Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm for 2.5D Chiplet Networks. | Ebadollah Taheri, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2022 | ICCAD | ReSiPI: A Reconfigurable Silicon-Photonic 2.5D Chiplet Network with PCMs for Energy-Efficient Interposer Communication. | Ebadollah Taheri, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2021 | DAC | CrossLight: A Cross-Layer Optimized Silicon Photonic Neural Network Accelerator. | Febin Sunny, Asif Mirza, Mahdi Nikdast, Sudeep Pasricha |
| 2021 | DAC | AdEle: An Adaptive Congestion-and-Energy-Aware Elevator Selection for Partially Connected 3D NoCs. | Ebadollah Taheri, Ryan Gary Kim, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2021 | DATE | Modeling Silicon-Photonic Neural Networks under Uncertainties. | Sanmitra Banerjee, Mahdi Nikdast, Krishnendu Chakrabarty |
| 2021 | RSP | HyCo: A Low-Latency Hybrid Control Plane for Optical Interconnection Networks. | Felipe Ghring de Magalhes, Mahdi Nikdast, Fabiano Hessel, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur, Gabriela Nicolescu |
| 2020 | DATE | Opportunities for Cross-Layer Design in High-Performance Computing Systems with Integrated Silicon Photonic Networks. | Asif Mirza, Shadi Manafi Avari, Ebadollah Taheri, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2020 | DATE | Silicon Photonic Microring Resonators: Design Optimization Under Fabrication Non-Uniformity. | Asif Mirza, Febin Sunny, Sudeep Pasricha, Mahdi Nikdast |
| 2019 | ICCAD | Wavelength-Routed Optical NoCs: Design and EDA - State of the Art and Future Directions: Invited Paper. | Tsun-Ming Tseng, Alexandre Truppel, Mengchu Li, Mahdi Nikdast, Ulf Schlichtmann |
| 2016 | DATE | Modeling fabrication non-uniformity in chip-scale silicon photonic interconnects. | Mahdi Nikdast, Gabriela Nicolescu, Jelena Trajkovic, Odile Liboiron-Ladouceur |
| 2015 | DATE | Coherent crosstalk noise analyses in ring-based optical interconnects. | Luan H. K. Duong, Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Zhehui Wang, Yvain Thonnart, Sbastien Le Beux, Peng Yang, Xiaowen Wu, Zhifei Wang |
| 2013 | DATE | Active power-gating-induced power/ground noise alleviation using parasitic capacitance of on-chip memories. | Xuan Wang, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang, Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Zhehui Wang, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhe Wang |
| 2013 | ISCAS | System-level analysis of mesh-based hybrid optical-electronic network-on-chip. | Yaoyao Ye, Xiaowen Wu, Jiang Xu, Mahdi Nikdast, Zhehui Wang, Xuan Wang, Zhe Wang |
| 2010 | DAC | Crosstalk noise and bit error rate analysis for optical network-on-chip. | Yiyuan Xie, Mahdi Nikdast, Jiang Xu, Wei Zhang, Qi Li, Xiaowen Wu, Yaoyao Ye, Xuan Wang, Weichen Liu |