About Me

I received my M.Sc. in computer engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2020. Currently I am working as a computer graphic researcher at Huawei Vancouver. Please find my latest CV here .

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering - Computer Architecture and Machine Learning

ECE, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. (2017- 2020)

Supervisor: Tor Aamodt

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

CE, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (2012- 2017)

Work Experience?

Computer Graphic Researcher

Huawei Technologies Co. Vancouver (2020-Current)

Research on efficient real-time rendering algorithms - 2020

Research on dynamic global illumination and hybrid raytracing - 2021


Graduate Research Assistant

Tor Aamodt Research Group, ECE Department, University of British Columbia (2017-2020)

Research on accelerating deep learning algorithms. Published in CVPR 2020 - Oral session (acceptance rate 5.7%)

Comprehensive study of the Tensor Core’s design in NVIDIA’s Volta and Turing architectures. Published in ISPASS 2019


Visitor Researcher, NSERC COHESA

Andreas Moshovos Group, ECE Department, University of Toronto (Apr. 2019 – May 2019)

Research on deep learning accelerators for sparse neural networks


Undergrad Research Assistant

Architectures and Networks Laboratory, CE Department, Sharif University of Technology (2016-2017)

Comprehensive study on thread level parallelism in GPU


Summer Internship

ICT Innovation Center, Sharif University of Technology (Summer 2015)

Implementation of cryptographic hash function on FPGA


Undergrad Research Assistant

Data Storage and Processing Laboratory, CE Department, Sharif University of Technology (2014-2016)

Research on power-efficient FPGA architectures

Publication

ReSprop: Reuse Sparsified Backpropagation

CVPR 2020 (oral)
Negar Goli, Tor Aamodt

Modeling Machine Learning Accelerator Enabled Graphics Processors

ISPASS 2019
Negar Goli*, Aamir Raihan* (*equal contribution), Tor Aamodt

Analyzing Machine Learning Workloads Using a Detailed GPU Simulator

ISPASS 2019
Jonathan Lew, ..., Negar Goli, Matthew D. Sinclair, Timothy G. Rogers, Tor Aamodt

Contact Me

Email

negargoli93@gmail.com

negargoli93@ece.ubc.ca