Biography
Avesta Sasan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis.
He received the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering (Summa Cum Laude) from the University of California, Irvine in 2005, and the
M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Irvine in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
From 2010 to 2014, he was with Broadcom (Office of the CTO), contributing to the physical design and implementation of ARM processors,
including timing signoff and signal/power integrity signoff. In 2014, he joined Qualcomm’s VLSI Technology organization, where he developed
methodologies and in-house EDA tools for accurate signoff and analysis of hardened ASIC solutions. From 2016 to 2021, he served as an Associate Professor
at George Mason University. He joined UC Davis in 2021 and has been a Professor since 2024.
His research interests include hardware security and trust, hardware for machine learning, energy-efficient learning and inference, and system-level optimization for
resource-constrained and high-performance platforms.