Talk: Dr. Hossein Aghababa "Reliability in Classical and Quantum Computation"
Short Speaker Bio: Dr. Hossein Aghababa is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran. He has taught at institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Loyola University Maryland, and Sharif University of Technology. From 2019 to 2020, he also served as an Invited Professor at Sorbonne University, working with the Quantum Information Team at Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6. Dr. Aghababa specializes in VLSI circuits, quantum computing, and microelectronics reliability, with a particular emphasis on statistical modeling and process variation analysis in nano-scale circuits. He has led numerous research initiatives, securing funding and publishing extensively in top-tier journals and conferences. His contributions include developing innovative methodologies for leakage power and delay estimation in CMOS circuits, and he has been recognized for his work in quantum computation and communication. Notably, he founded the Quantum Computation and Communication Lab at the University of Tehran. Beyond his academic achievements, Dr. Aghababa is an active member of the academic community, serving as a reviewer for several prestigious journals, including Scientific Reports-Nature, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (TVLSI), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (TCAS I), IEEE Communications Letters, Microelectronics Reliability, Quantum Information Processing, and Optical and Quantum Electronics. He has also contributed as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) and for the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS). Dr. Aghababa has supervised the successful graduation of one PhD student and over ten Master's students. In 2020, he was honored with the Outstanding Research Award from the University of Tehran.