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About me

I am at Qualcomm now. I was a postdoctoral scholar (research associate) at Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California and an instructor of EE-450 (Introduction to computer networks) during Fall 2013. I graduated with PhD from Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California on July 2013. During my PhD, I worked in System Power Optimization and Regulation Technologies (SPORT) Lab at the USC under the supervision of Prof. Massoud Pedram.

Dissertation

Hadi Goudarzi, SLA-based, Energy-Efficient Resource Management in Cloud Computing Systems, University of Southern California, Aug. 2013.

Research interests

Cloud computing systems
Energy efficiency and low-power design
Smart grid technology

Education

University of Southern California (2009-2013)
PhD candidate, Computer Engineering Division, Electrical Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. Massoud Pedram
GPA: 4.0/4.0

Sharif University of Technology (2006-2008)
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Communication Systems)
Dissertation: “Power Performance Analysis of Cooperative Networks”
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Reza Pakravan
GPA: 18.6/20

Sharif University of Technology (2002-2006)
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Communication)
Dissertation: “Call Admission control in Downlink of cellular CDMA (3G)”
Supervisor: Dr. Farid Ashtiani
GPA: 17.5/20

Honors and Awards

Recipient of Annenberg Fellowship Awards, University of Southern California, 2009
Recipient of Annenberg Research award, University of Southern California, 2012 and 2013
Ranked 2nd in M.Sc. communication systems students, Sharif U. of Tech., 2008

Research Experience

Optimizing the profit in the Cloud Computing systems via resource allocation
Quantum computing CAD flow
Power/performance management in multi-core processors and in smart phone devices

Demand response in Smart Grid technology

Optimal power allocation and partner selection in wireless cooperative diversity

Bio-inspired system for adaptive rate control for P2P multimedia streaming

Call Admission Control for Downlink of Cellular CDMA (3G)

Work Experience

Part-time researcher at Datak (private internet service provider) 2006-2007
Working on cell planning and maximizing the range of wireless internet access in Tehran
Engineer at Parman (private company) 2009
Hardware programming for communication protocol

Selected Projects

DDR II Controller based on Micron spec., design, Verilog implementation, synthesis and physical design, using Modelsim, Design Compiler, Encounter, USC 2011
Design of 32-bit multiplier in schematic and layout, using Virtuoso Cadence, USC 2010
Post-synthesis automatic clock gating insertion in VLSI circuits, SIS, USC 2010
Design of a physical synthesis tool for a multi-FPGA mesh structure, C++, USC 2010
Design of a geographical database system and GUI for Animal tracking, using Oracle Spatial and Java, USC 2011
Design and implementation of supervised machine learning algorithms for classification and regression, using Matlab, USC 2012

Publications (Google Scholar's Profile)

Cloud Computing

Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Force-directed Geographical Load Balancing and Scheduling for Batch Jobs in Distributed Datacenters," To appear in proceeding of IEEE international conference on cluster computing (CLUSTER 2013), Sep 2013.
Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Hierarchical SLA-Driven Resource Management for Peak Power-Aware and Energy-Efficient Operation of a Cloud Datacenter ," submitted.
Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Profit-maximizing resource allocation for multi-tier cloud computing systems under service level agreements," to appear in Large Scale Network-Centric Computing Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Sep 2013.

Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Geographical Load Balancing for Online Service Applications in Distributed Datacenters," Proceeding of IEEE international conference on cloud computing (CLOUD 2013), June 2013.
Yanzhi Wang, Shwang Chen, Hadi Goudarzi, and Massoud Pedram, "Resource allocation and consolidation in a multi-core server cluster using a Markov decision process model," Proceeding of the 13th Int'l Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Mar. 2013.
Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Energy-efficient Virtual Machine Replication and Placement in a Cloud Computing System," Proceeding of IEEE international conference on cloud computing (CLOUD 2012), June 2012.

Hadi Goudarzi, Mohammad Ghasemazar and Massoud Pedram, “SLA-based Optimization of Power and Migration Cost in Cloud Computing,” Proceeding of Int'l Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID 2012), May 2012.

Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Multi-dimensional SLA-based resource allocation for multi-tier cloud computing systems," Proceeding of IEEE international conference on cloud computing (CLOUD 2011), July 2011.
Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Maximizing profit in the cloud computing system via resource allocation," Proc. of the first international workshop on Data Center Performance, held in conjunction with the 31st Int'l Conference on Distributed Computing System, Minneapolis, MN, Jun. 2011.

Quantum Computing CAD flow

“Improving the Computational Latency of Ion-Trap Quantum Circuits by Force-Directed Operation Scheduling and Placement,” submitted.

Power/Performance/Thermal management of CMP

Mohammad Ghasemazar, Hadi Goudarzi and Massoud Pedram, "Robust Optimization of A Chip Multiprocessor's Performance under Power and Thermal Constraints," Proceeding of The 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'12), Oct. 2012.

Smart Grid

Tiansong Cui, Yanzhi Wang, Hadi Goudarzi, Shahin Nazarian, and Massoud Pedram, "Profit Maximization for Utility Companies in an Oligopolistic Energy Market with Dynamic Prices," Proceeding of the IEEE GreenCom, Sep. 2012.
Tiansong Cui, Hadi Goudarzi, Safar Hatami, Shahin Nazarian, and Massoud Pedram, "Concurrent optimization of consumer's electrical energy bill and producer's power generation cost under a dynamic pricing model," Proceeding of the 3rd IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference, Jan. 2012.
Hadi Goudarzi, Safar Hatami, and Massoud Pedram "Demand-side load scheduling incentivized by dynamic energy prices," Proceeding of the 2nd Int'l Conf. on Smart Grid Communications, Oct. 2011.

Cooperative Diversity and Relaying

Hadi Goudarzi and Mohammad Reza Pakravan, “Optimal Partner Selection and Power Allocation for Amplify and Forward Cooperative Diversity,” Proceeding of the 19th IEEE Personal Indoor Mobile Radio Communication (PIMRC08), Sep. 2008, Cannes, France.
Hadi Goudarzi and Mohammad Reza Pakravan, “Equal Power Allocation Scheme For Cooperative Diversity,” Proceeding of the 4th IEEE international Conference in central Asia in Internet - next generation of wireless networks (ICI08), Sep. 2008, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Hadi Goudarzi and Mohammad Reza Pakravan, “Practical Power Allocation and Greedy Partner Selection for Cooperative Diversity,” Proceeding of 1st IEEE/IFIP Wireless Days (WD08), Nov. 2008.
Hadi Goudarzi and Mohammad Reza Pakravan, “Optimal Partner Selection and Power Allocation for Amplify and Forward Cooperative Diversity,” submitted to IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology.
Hadi Goudarzi, "Power Performance Analysis of Cooperative Networks," Sharif University of Technology Master of Science Thesis in Farsi, 2008.

Optical Communication

Sina Khaleghi, Mohammad Reza Pakravan and Hadi Goudarzi, “Providing Multiclass of Services in Optical CDMA Packet Networks”, Proceeding of the 4th IEEE international Conference in central Asia in Internet - next generation of Optical networks (ICI08), Sep. 2008, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Bio-inspired Networking

Hadi Goudarzi, Amir Hesam Salavati and Mohammad Reza Pakravan, “An ant-based rate allocation algorithm for media streaming in peer to peer networks: Extension to multiple sessions and dynamic networks,” Journal of Network and Computer Applications 34(1), pp. 327-340. 2011.
Amir Hesam Salavati, Hadi Goudarzi and Mohammad Reza Pakravan, “An Ant Based Rate Allocation Algorithm For Media Streaming in Peer to Peer Networks”, Proceeding of 33rd IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN08) 2008, Oct. 2008, Montreal, Canada.

Teaching Experience

Teaching assistant – Summer 2011
Instructor: Dr. Shahin Nazarian – Course: Computer Network
Teaching assistant – Fall 2007
Instructor: Dr. Mohammad Reza Pakravan – Course: Communications Systems I
Teaching assistant – Spring 2008
Instructor: Dr. Masoud BabaieZadeh – Course: Signals and Systems
Teaching assistant – Spring 2008
Instructor: Dr. Mohammad Reza Pakravan – Course: Communications Systems I

Computer and Programming Skills

Programming: C/C++, Java, Perl, Verilog, System Verilog, Assembly 8051, 8086, SQL, XML, MATLAB & Simulink.
Engineering Softwares: Synopsys Design Compiler, Prime time, Cadence Encounter, HSpice, Cadence Virtuoso, OPNET, NS (Network Simulator), ISE Xilinx, Modelsim.