Fatemeh Asgarinejad
Hi! 👋 I'm Fatemeh ("Faa-teh-meh") Asgarinejad, a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego (joint with San Diego State University). I work on Hyperdimensional Computing Security and synergy of Hyperdimensional Computing and Machine Learning under the supervision of Prof. Tajana Rosing and Prof. Baris Aksanli and I have been lucky and grateful to be mentored by them as well as Prof. Niema Moshiri.
You can find my candidacy presentation slides from here.
Sample teaching (Statistics - Hypothesis Testing) [video] [slides]
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Teaching
University of California, San Diego
- Instructor, Computer Science and Engineering
- Teaching Assistant, Computer Science and Engineering
- CSE 101: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Summer 2023)
- CSE 20: Discrete Mathematics (Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2023, Winter 2023, Winter 2025)
- CSE 21: Mathematics for Algorithms and Systems Analysis (Winter, Spring, and Fall 2024)
- Teaching Assistant, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
- DSC 200: Data Science Programming (Fall 2023)
- DSC 40A: Theoretical Foundations of Data Science (Summer 2023)
San Diego State University
- Instructor: First Year Seminars, four Classes (Fall 2021)
UC San Diego Extension
- Teaching Assistant: DSE 220x - Machine Learning Fundamentals (Prof. Sanjoy Dasgupta, Three Semesters Sep 2019 - Aug 2020)
UC San Diego Teaching Certificates
- UC San Diego Student-Centered College Teaching & Course Design Certificate
- Leadership in Teaching: Graduate Peer Review of Instruction Program Certificate
- Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Community of Practice Certificate
Publications
- F. Asgarinejad, F. Ponzina, O. Gungor, T. Rosing, B. Aksanli, “HDXpose: Harnessing Hyperdimensional Computing’s Explainability for Adversarial Attacks”, ICCAD, 2024. [slides]
- F. Asgarinejad, F. Asgarinejad, J. Morris, T. Rosing, B. Aksanli, VisionHD: Revisiting Hyperdimensional Computing for Improved Image Classification, ISLPED, 2024.
- M. Gaddi, F. Ponzina, F. Asgarinejad, B. Aksanli, T. Rosing, “HyperECG: ECG Signal Inference from Radar with Hyperdimensional Computing”, BIBE, 2024.
- F. Asgarinejad, J. Morris, T. Rosing, B. Aksanli, PIONEER: Towards Highly Efficient and Accurate Hyperdimensional Computing using Learned Projection, ASP-DAC, 2024. [slides]
- F. Asgarinejad, A. Thomas, R. Hildebrant, Z Zhang, S. Ren. Rosing, B. Aksanli Optimized Early Prediction of Business Processes with Hyperdimensional Computing, MDPI Information, 2024.
- F. Asgarinejad, X. Yu, D. Jiang, J. Morris, T. Rosing, B. Aksanli, Enhanced Noise-Resilient Pressure Mat System Based on Hyperdimensional Computing, MDPI Sensors, 2024.
- R. Chandrasecaran, F. Asgarinejad, J. Morris, T. Rosing, Multi-label classification with Hyperdimensional Representations IEEE ACCESS, 2023.
- X. Yu, M. Zhou, F. Asgarinejad, O. Gungor, B. Aksanli, T. Rosing, Lightning Talk: Private and Secure Edge AI with Hyperdimensional Computing, DAC, 2023.
- Z. Zhang, R. Hildebrant, F. Asgarinejad, N. Venkatasubramanian, S. Ren, Improving Process Discovery Results by Filtering Out Outliers from Event Logs with Hidden Markov Models, CBI, 2021.
- R. Garcia, F. Asgarinejad, B. Khaleghi, T. Rosing, M. Imani TruLook: A Framework for Configurable GPU Approximation, DATE, 2021.
- F. Asgarinejad, A. Thomas, T. Rosing, Detection of Epileptic Seizures from Surface EEG using Hyperdimensional Computing, EMBC, 2020. slides, presentation
- B. Khaleghi, S. Salamat, A. Thomas, F. Asgarinejad, Y. Kim, T. Rosing, SHEARer Highly-Efficient Hyperdimensional Computing by Software-Hardware Enabled Multifold Approximation, ISLPED, 2020.
- J. Yang, A.J. Olivares, F. Asgarinejad, F. Ponzina, T. Rosing, B. Aksanli,Transforming Memory Retention Strategies in Neural Networks through Hyperdimensional Computing Techniques, under preparation.
Mentorship
- Jiaying Yang, B.Sc. student in Computer Science, Project: Addressing Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks using Hyperdimensional Computing.
- Matilda Gaddi, B.Sc. student in Data Science, Project: ECG Signal Inference from Radar with Hyperdimensional Computing.
- A.J. Olivares, B.Sc. student in Computer Science, Project: Addressing Catastrophic Forgetting in Neural Networks using Hyperdimensional Computing.
- Amir Kiadi, B.Sc. student in Computer Science, Project: LLM on Edge.
- Lilianne Montehermoso, High School student, PRISM Center Research Program, Project: Analyzing Adversarial Attacks in Machine Learning.
Awards
- DAC’61 Young Fellow Best Video Presentation Award, 2024
- DAC Young Fellow at the 61st Design Automation Conference in San Francisco, 2024
- SRC Research Scholar and awarded funding for conference participation, 2024
- UCSD travel grant, 2024
- Member of HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) Honor Society of UC San Diego since May 2022
- Ranked 20th (top 0.1%) in Iran’s national university entrance exam for M.Sc. in Computer Science
- Ranked top 0.4% in Iran’s national university entrance exam for M.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Professional Service
- Reviewer for ACM Computing Surveys
- Student Activities Chair for IEEE San Diego Section
Talks
Invited Talks
- University of California Riverside, ECE
- Purdue University, CS
- California State University Long Beach, CECS
- University of Texas Austin, CS
- University of Texas A&M, CSE
- Chapman University, CS
- NorthWestern University, Statistics and Data Science
- PRISM Center Annual Review, UC San Diego, “PRISM Center Summer Virtual High School Program”, Nov 2024
- TECHCON, “Harnessing Hyperdimensional Computing’s Explainability for Adversarial Attacks”, Sep 2024
- Colegio San Agustin-Bacolod University’s 60th Founding Anniversary Research Conference, “Applying Machine Learning and Brain-Inspired Computing for Innovative Problem Solving”, July 2023
Conference Talks
- ICCAD, 2024 [slides]
- ASP-DAC, 2024 [slides]
- EMBC, 2020 [slides] | [presentation]
Diversity, Inclusion & Mentorship
- Women In Computing Mentorship Program (at UC San Diego), Sep 2024-present
- Research Mentor (at UC San Diego, SEElab), August 2023-present
- Research Mentor (at UC San Diego, PRISM Center), Virtual High School Research Program for high school students, Summer 2024
- Python Summer School Mentor (at Sharif University of Technology, under supervision of Prof. Ali Sharifi-Zarchi), Summer 2023
- HKN (Eta Kappa Nu) Honor Society of UC San Diego Outreach Program for middle-school and High-school students, May 2022-present