Samira Mirbagher Ajorpaz

Assistant Professor

919 515 4088
smirbag@ncsu.edu
2004F Engineering Building II
Campus Box 7911
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Biography

Dr. Mirbagher is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. She received her BS in computer engineering from University of Isfahan in 2014 and her PhD in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 2019. She is a 2020 University of California Postdoctoral Fellow in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego. She was also, a 2021 MIT ECE Rising Star.

Her research is centered at the intersection of computer architecture, computer systems security, and machine learning with a focus on designing fast, energy efficient and secure microarchitectural units with nano-second scale timing margins. She is also interested in streamlining, accelerating, and simplifying the machine learning models for hardware. These improvements include creating smaller, faster, lower power, sustainable and more secure processors, such as those used in mobile phones, desktop, and laptop computers, as well as high performance servers and clouds. The application of her research area has broader impact that extends from ways to gain deeper insights into the workings of the human brain (e.g., research done at Google Brain Lab) or ideas to enhance the design of microprocessors (e.g., research done by chip manufacturers such as Intel Labs) as well as developing formal and theoretical frameworks for high performance, power efficient and secure computing.

Currently she studies pre-silicon security verification of advanced microarchitectural designs, considering the security of application of machine learning in hardware, identifying microarchitectural side channel and adversarial machine learning attacks, and developing of defenses for them. Her recent studies use generative AI to enable hardware to dynamically adapt itself for security, performance, and power efficiency.