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Present: University Teacher
\nPast: Senior Researcher, Dept. of Computing, Uni. Turku, 2019-2024
\nEducation: PhD in Computer Systems (2018); MSc in Embedded Computing (2014), Uni. Turku
\nResearch interests: Resource efficient embedded, mobile, and edge computing for AI\/ML applications<\/p>\n

Contact: spakan[at]utu[dot]fi<\/p>\n

News\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

[Jan 2026] Open Msc theses topics are below. Contact by email if interested.
\n(1) Deployment of LLMs on heterogeneous mobile\/edge platforms
\n(2) Distributed DNN inference on collaborative edge platforms
\n(3) Adaptive perception for mobile autonomous systems<\/del><\/p>\n

[Sep 2025] Serving as TPC member at DATE-2026<\/p>\n

Mentoring\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Aman Vyas<\/a> (PhD candidate, 2025-)
\nZain Taufique<\/a>\u00a0 (PhD candidate, EU Marie Curie ITN Fellow, 2022-)<\/p>\n

Elham Shamsa (Co-advisor, 2018-2022, First employment: SoC Design Engineer at Nokia Networks)<\/p>\n

Teaching\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

DTEK2085-300x:<\/a> Computer architecture and Operating systems<\/p>\n

DTEK0074-300x<\/a>: Embedded systems programming<\/p>\n

Publications<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Twill: Scheduling Compound AI Systems on Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Platforms<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/em>Zain Taufique, Aman Vyas, Antonio Miele, Pasi Liljeberg, and Anil Kanduri\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/span><\/em>ACM\/IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD<\/strong>), 2025\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Exploiting Approximation for Run-time Resource Management of Embedded HMPs<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/em>Zain Taufique, Anil Kanduri, Antonio Miele, Amir Rahmani, Cristiana Bolchini, Nikil Dutt, Pasi Liljeberg<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/a>ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (ACM-TECS<\/strong>), 2025\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

HiDP: Hierarchical DNN Partitioning for Distributed Inference on Heterogeneous Edge Platforms<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/em>Zain Taufique, Aman Vyas, Antonio Miele, Pasi Liljeberg, and Anil Kanduri\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/span><\/em>IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE<\/strong>), 2025\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tango: Low Latency Multi-DNN Inference on Heterogeneous Edge Platforms<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/span><\/em>Zain Taufique, Aman Vyas, Antonio Miele, Pasi Liljeberg, and Anil Kanduri\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span>IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD<\/strong>), 2024\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

ISCA: Intelligent Sense-Compute Adaptive Co-optimization of Multimodal Machine Learning Kernels for Resilient mHealth Services on Wearables<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/em>Hamidreza Alikhani, Anil Kanduri, Emad Kasaeyan Naeini, Sina Shahhosseini, Pasi Liljeberg, Amir M. Rahmani, and Nikil Dutt<\/span><\/span>
\nIEEE Design & Test (IEEE-DT<\/strong>), 2024\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

EA2: Energy Efficient Adaptive Active Learning for Smart Wearables<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/a><\/em>Hamidreza Alikhani<\/span>, Ziyu Wang<\/span>, Anil Kanduri<\/span>, Pasi Liljeberg<\/span>, Nikil Dutt, Amir M. Rahmani<\/span><\/span>
\nIEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED<\/strong>), 2024\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

SEAL: Sensing Efficient Active Learning on Wearables through Context-awareness<\/a><\/em><\/span>
\n<\/em>Hamidreza Alikhani<\/span>*<\/span>, Ziyu Wang<\/span>*<\/span>, Anil Kanduri<\/span>, Pasi Liljeberg<\/span>, Amir M. Rahmani<\/span>, Nikil Dutt <\/span><\/span>(*: equal contribution)<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/em>IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition (DATE<\/strong>), 2024<\/span><\/p>\n

Adaptive Workload Distribution for Accuracy-aware DNN Inference on Collaborative Edge Platforms<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/em>Zain Taufique, Antonio Miele, Pasi Liljeberg, Anil Kanduri<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/em>ACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC<\/strong>), 2024<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

DynaFuse: Dynamic Fusion for Resource Efficient Multi-modal Machine Learning Inference<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/span><\/em>Hamidreza Alikhani, Anil Kanduri, Pasi Liljeberg, Amir M. Rahmani, Nikil Dutt<\/span><\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/em>IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (IEEE-ESL<\/strong>)<\/span><\/span>\/<\/span><\/span><\/em>In Proc. of International Conference on Hardware\/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (<\/span><\/span>ESWEEK-CODES+ISSS<\/strong>), 2023<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Online Learning for Orchestration of Inference in Multi-User End-Edge-Cloud Networks<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/em>Sina Shahhosseini, Dongjoo Seo, Anil Kanduri, Tianyi Hu, Sung-Soo Lim, Bryan Donyanavard, Amir M. Rahmani, Nikil Dutt<\/span>
\n<\/em>ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (ACM-TECS<\/strong>) 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

Hybrid Learning for Orchestrating Deep Learning Inference in Multi-user Edge-cloud Networks<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/em>Sina Shahhosseini, Tianyi Hu, Dongjoo Seo, Anil Kanduri, Bryan Donyanavard, Amir M. Rahmani, Nikil Dutt<\/span>
\n<\/em>23rd<\/sup> International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’22<\/strong>), 2022
\n(Best Paper Award Winner)\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

AMSER: Adaptive Multimodal Sensing for Energy Ef\ufb01cient and Resilient eHealth Systems<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/em>Emad Kasaeyan Naeini, Sina Shahhosseini, Anil Kanduri, Pasi Liljeberg, Amir M. Rahmani, Nikil D. Dutt<\/span>
\n<\/em>IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE<\/strong>), 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

Concurrent Application Bias Scheduling for Energy Efficiency of Heterogeneous Multi-Core platforms<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/em>Elham Shamsa, Anil Kanduri, Pasi Liljeberg, and Amir M. Rahmani<\/span>
\n<\/em>IEEE Transactions on Computer (IEEE-TC<\/strong>) 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

UBAR: User and Battery Aware Resource Management for Smart Phones<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/em>Elham Shamsa, Alma Proebstl, Nima Taherinejad, Anil Kanduri, Samarjit Chakraborty, Amir M. Rahmani and Pasi Liljeberg.<\/span>
\n<\/em>ACM Transactions on Embedded Computer Systems (ACM-TECS<\/strong>) 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

Energy-Performance Co-management of Mixed Sensitivity Workloads on Heterogeneous Multi-core Systems<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/em>Elham Shamsa, Anil Kanduri, Amir M. Rahmani and Pasi Liljeberg.<\/span>
\nACM Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC<\/strong>) 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

User-centric Resource Management for Embedded Multi-core Processors<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/em>Elham Shamsa, Anil Kanduri, Nima Taherinejad, Alma Proebstl, Samarjit Chakraborty, Amir M. Rahmani and Pasi Liljeberg.<\/span>
\nIEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID<\/strong>) 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

On-chip Dynamic Resource Management<\/em><\/span>
\nAntonio Miele, Anil Kanduri, Kasra Moazzemi, David Juhasz, Amir M. Rahmani, Nikil Dutt, Pasi Liljeberg and Axel Jantsch
\nFoundations and Trends in Electronic Design Automation (FnTEDA<\/strong>) 2019<\/p>\n

Goal-driven Autonomy for Efficient On-chip Resource Management: Transforming Objectives to Goals<\/a><\/em><\/span>
\nElham Shamsa, Anil Kanduri, Amir Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Axel Jantsch and Nikil Dutt<\/span>
\nIEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE<\/strong>), 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Approximation-Aware Coordinated Power\/Performance Management of Heterogeneous Multi-cores<\/a><\/em><\/span>
\nAnil Kanduri, Antonio Miele, Amir Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Cristiana Bolchini and Nikil Dutt<\/span>
\nACM\/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC<\/strong>), 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

adBoost: Thermal Aware Performance Boosting through Dark Silicon Patterning<\/a><\/em><\/span>
\nAnil Kanduri, Hashem Haghbayan, Amir Rahmani, Muhammad Shafique, Axel Jantsch and Pasi Liljeberg.<\/span>
\nIEEE Transactions on Computer (IEEE-TC<\/strong>), 2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Accuracy-Aware Power Management for Many-Core Systems Running Error-Resilient Applications<\/a><\/em><\/span>
\nAnil Kanduri, Hashem Haghbayan, Amir Rahmani,Pasi Liljeberg, Axel Jantsch, Hannu Tenhunen and Nikil Dutt.
\nIEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems (IEEE-TVLSI<\/strong>), 2017<\/p>\n

Approximation Knob: Power Capping Meets Energy Efficiency<\/a><\/em><\/span>
\nAnil Kanduri, Hashem Haghbayan, Amir Rahmani,Pasi Liljeberg, Axel Jantsch, Nikil Dutt and Hannu Tenhunen
\nIEEE\/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD<\/strong>) 2016<\/p>\n

Dark Silicon Aware Run-time Mapping for Many-core Systems – A Patterning Approach<\/a><\/em><\/span>
\nAnil Kanduri, Hashem Haghbayan, Amir Rahmani, Axel Jantsch, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen
\nIEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD<\/strong>) 2015<\/p>\n

MapPro: Proactive Runtime Mapping for Dynamic Workloads by Quantifying Ripple Effect of Applications on Networks-on-Chip<\/em>
\nMohammad-Hashem Haghbayan, Anil Kanduri, Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Pasi Liljeberg, Hannu Tenhunen
\nIEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS<\/strong>) 2015<\/p>\n

Dynamic Power Management for Many-Core Platforms in the Dark Silicon Era: A Multi-Objective Control Approach<\/em>
\nAmir-Mohammad Rahmani, Mohammad-Hashem Haghbayan, Anil Kanduri, Awet Yemane Weldezion, Pasi Liljeberg, Juha Plosila, Axel Jantsch, Hannu Tenhunen
\nIEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED<\/strong>) 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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