Shaahin Angizi
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Synergy Microwave Chair
325 Electrical and Computer Engineering Center (ECEC)
About Me
Dr. Angizi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), and the director of the Advanced Circuit-to-Architecture Design Laboratory (ACAD Lab). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University (ASU). His research interests include the cross-layer design of energy-efficient and high-performance ASIC, processing-in-memory, and processing-in-sensor platforms to enhance complex artificial intelligence and machine learning tasks, bioinformatics (computation), and graph processing.
Education
Ph.D.; Arizona State University; Electrical Engineering; 2021

M.S.; Azad University; Computer Engineering; 2014

B.S.; Azad University; Computer Engineering; 2012

Awards & Honors

2026 Best Paper Award, 2026 Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Verona, Italy,

2026 Spring Courses
ECE 788 - ST: HARDWARE ACCELERATION FOR MACHINE LEARNING

ECE 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

ECE 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

ECE 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

ECE 452 - HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS

ECE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

ECE 417 - ELECT AND COMP ENGR PROJ II

ECE 790A - DOCTRL DISSRTN & RESEARCH

ECE 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

Past Courses
ECE 451: ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

ECE 452: ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE II

ECE 452: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Research Interests
+ Accelerator Design for Big Data Applications
+ In-Memory Computing with Volatile & Non-Volatile Memories
+ Adaptive Learning for Collaborative Edge Computing
+ Low Power and Area-Efficient In-Sensor Computing for IoT
+ Hardware Security Solution for Emerging Non-Volatile Memories
+ Low power VLSI circuits
Journal Article
Neeraj Solanki, Hong Ding, Sepehr Tabrizchi, Ali Shafiee Sarvestani, Shaahin Angizi, David Z Pan, Arman Roohi. 2026. "GLANCE: Gaze-Led Attention Network for Compressed Edge-inference." arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.15717 .

Xuming Chen, Deniz Najafi, Chengwei Zhou, Pietro Mercati, Arman Roohi, Mohsen Imani, Mahdi Nikdast, Shaahin Angizi, Gourav Datta. 2026. "Light-Bound Transformers: Hardware-Anchored Robustness for Silicon-Photonic Computer Vision Systems." arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04330 .

Mohaiminul Al Nahian, Abeer Matar A Almalky, Gamana Aragonda, Ranyang Zhou, Sabbir Ahmed, Dmitry Ponomarev, Li Yang, Shaahin Angizi, Adnan Siraj Rakin. 2025. "CacheTrap: Injecting Trojans in LLMs without Leaving any Traces in Inputs or Weights." arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22681 .

Kartik Pandit, Sourav Ganguly, Arnesh Banerjee, Shaahin Angizi, Arnob Ghosh. 2025. "Certifiable Safe RLHF: Fixed-Penalty Constraint Optimization for Safer Language Models." arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03520 .

Ranyang Zhou, Abeer Matar A Almalky, Gamana Aragonda, Sabbir Ahmed, Tr\onnes-Christensen, Filip Roth, Adnan Siraj Rakin, Shaahin Angizi. 2025. "EIM-TRNG: Obfuscating Deep Neural Network Weights with Encoding-in-Memory True Random Number Generator via RowHammer." arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.02206 .

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Other
"Method and system for a programmable and generic processing-in-SRAM accelerator"
February, 2026.

"Neural network acceleration of image processing"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.

"Non-Volatile Processing-In-Sensor Accelerator For Imaging Systems"
August, 2024.

"System and method for mrna quantification processing in-memory"
May, 2024.

"One-cycle reconfigurable in-memory logic for non-volatile memory"
January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2024.

"System and method for fast and efficient max/min searching in dram"
September, 2023.

"Processing-in-Memory for Data-Intensive Applications, from Device to Algorithm"
Arizona State University, 2021.

Conference Proceeding
"Compromising the intelligence of modern dnns: On the effectiveness of targeted rowpress"
2025.

"Deepcompress-vit: Rethinking model compression to enhance efficiency of vision transformers at the edge"
2025.

"Dyna-Optics: Architecting a Channel-Adaptive DNN Near-Sensor Optical Accelerator for Dynamic Inference"
2025.

"Event-driven spatiotemporal processing-in-sensor with phase change memory-based optical acceleration"
2025.

"Exploiting boosting in hyperdimensional computing for enhanced reliability in healthcare"
2025.

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Chapter
Arman Roohi, Shaahin Angizi, Deliang Fan. "Enabling Edge Computing Using Emerging Memory Technologies: From Device to Architecture." "Frontiers of Quality Electronic Design (QED) AI, IoT and Hardware Security," pp. 415--464. Springer International Publishing Cham, 2022.