Presenter

Bahar Asgari is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), with a joint appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and affiliations with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM). Prior to joining UMD, she spent a year on Google’s Systems and Services Infrastructure team, where she focused on improving system performance and developing strategies to balance trade-offs among memory utilization, cost, and reliability. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2021 and was selected as a Rising Star in EECS in 2019. Asgari received the DOE Early Career Award in 2023 and the Teaching Excellence Award from UMD’s Department of Computer Science in 2024. Her research group at UMD, the Computer Architecture and Systems Lab (CASL), is dedicated to shaping the future of computing by enabling intelligent, dynamically reconfigurable architectures, designing efficient systems for AI, and using AI to design better computers. Asgari’s work has appeared in major conferences such as MICRO, ASPLOS, HPCA, and DAC, and her research is sponsored by DOE and the NSF PPoSS program.