Mahdi Nikdast

Mahdi Nikdast received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2014. Since 2014, he is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He authored/co-authored more than 50 papers in refereed journals and international conference publications. He is the founder and the program chair of the International Workshop on Optical/Photonic Interconnects for Computing...See more

Mahdi Nikdast received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2014. Since 2014, he is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He authored/co-authored more than 50 papers in refereed journals and international conference publications. He is the founder and the program chair of the International Workshop on Optical/Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems (OPTICS). Mahdi was a recipient of several awards, including the Best Paper Award from the Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference (DATE-2016), the Best Poster Paper Award from the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP-2015), and the Second Best Project Award from the 6thAnnualAMDTechnical Forum and Exhibition (AMD-TFE-2010). His research interests include silicon photonics, optoelectronics, heterogeneous computing systems, multiprocessor systems-on-chip, and interconnection networks. See less