Soha Hassoun
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering, Tufts University
 
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Bio, CV, Office Hours  Contact Info 

Previous Courses: COMP 40: Computer Architecture, COMP 150GCA: Advanced Computer Architecture, EN 47: Exploring Computer Science, COMP 150-2:CAD, and COMP 160: Algorithms


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Teaching and Research Assistantships avaiable in:
  • Electronic Design Automation (EDA)/Computer-Aided Design (CAD) for Integrated Circuits
  • Modeling and Simulation for Soft Robotics
  • Modeling Biochemical Pathways

    The positions are in the Boston area at Tufts University. Email me with your GRE Scores and a short paragraph about your interests!

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    Teaching
    Spring 2009 COMP 150GA: Stochastic Search and Genetic Algorithms

     
    Research
    EDA (Electronic Design Automation), Modeling & Simulation of Natural Systems, with current focus on soft robotics and Biochemical pathways
    Patents & Publications, Students
     
    • Predictive Metabolic Models:
      (Sponsored by NSF) Metabolic reactions are an important class of reactions performing essential cellular functions such as energy generation, biosynthesis, and harmful waste and byproduct elimination. Predictive models of cellular metabolism offer broad benefits as tools for both basic and applied research. My research group, co-supervised with Prof. Kyongbum Lee, is focused on utilizing both structural and functional information to build these predictive models.
    • The Tufts Biomimetic Devices Laboratory:
      The Tufts BDL is a research group focused on Neuromechanics and Robotics. My research group, with some awesome collaborators, is working on synthesizing a robot from soft material. Several undergrads, sponsored by CRA-W are involved with this project.
    • Electro-thermal analysis and Design, focusing on finFETs (Sponsored by NSF and Altera). Check out our latest:
      • ISQED 06 on a cool metric (METS) for measuring electro-thermal properties.
      • DAC 06 on gate sizing for finFETs.
      • Therminic 06 on multi-fin electro-thermal analysis.
      • A journal paper in the IEEE Transactions on VLSI 2008, based on our technical report.
    Service and Fun! 
    • User-Track at DAC 2009:
      Leon Stok (IBM) and I are in the process of organizing a new effort at DAC to highlight innovative tools EDA tool use. The idea is to get tool users to show up at DAC and actually tell it as it is. Here is the call, and some submission guidelines.
    • I am on the technical program committee for DATE.
    • Some cool pictures:
    • (not so new but still selling!) The Edited Book: Logic Synthesis and Verification, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Nov. 2001. An outline and list of contributors can be found here. You can buy the book here.